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with might and main

adverb as in powerfully

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Arrived before the cottage door, he drew his sword, and, taking it by the blade, pounded with might and main with the butt on the panel.

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And then men saw him, "red as the rising sun from spur to plume," lift up his sword, and, kneeling, kiss the cross of it; and after, rising to his feet, set might and main with all his fellowship upon the foe, till, as a troop of lions roaring for their prey, they drove them like a scattered herd along the plains, and cut them down till they could cut no more for weariness.

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In our onward course we meet nearly all these men, working with might and main, with axes, shovels, stakes and picks, hurrying as if the task were urgent.

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And she, following his lead, saw that Darcy was working with might and main with some burglar's tool after the nature of a lever.

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But he is building submarines and long-distance planes with all his might and main with which to bomb the convoys and to announce their location to the submarines.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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