"Level best" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... represent, the match game must be won; hence he surrenders his personal glory to the common good. He does more. Under the excitement of the contest and with the consequent strengthening of the team spirit, he encourages the very boy, who would otherwise have been only his personal rival, to do his level best, forgetting utterly any mean individual comparisons and all anti-social self-consciousness, in what he has enthusiastically accepted as ...
— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben
... nethermost deck of the first machine jogged forward its flyboard with sllt the first batch of quirefolded papers. Sllt. Almost human the way it sllt to call attention. Doing its level best to speak. That door too sllt creaking, asking to be shut. Everything speaks in ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... mattock and began to dig. His level best fell so far short of what he felt capable of doing and desired to accomplish that the following day he put two more men on the job. Then the earth did fly, and so soon as the required space was excavated the walls were lined ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter
... week, straight. And he said to tell you he would add a hundred every week that you deliver the goods. That is giving a tremendously square deal, in my opinion. But it's the boss's way, to make it worth a man's while to do his level best." ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... that he had found "Mr. Washington" a hard nut to crack, but he would do his level best, he said, "to strike at Washington while he ...
— Hero Stories from American History - For Elementary Schools • Albert F. Blaisdell
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