| 1. | My word, my wisdom, and effectual might. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | You can't imagine what an effectual remedy it is for every sort of foolishness. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Which, unrevers'd, stands in effectual force. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | While he spoke thus, I commenced the passes which I had already found most effectual in subduing him. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | Charlotte's fist was by no means a light one but, lest it should not be effectual in calming Oliver's wrath, Mrs. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 8. | The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. - from The King James Bible |
| 9. | An ether, absolutely dense, would put an infinitely more effectual stop to the progress of a star than would an ether of adamant or of iron. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |