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Oh, as usual,” he said, glancing at the complete disorder which they had been effecting.

From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

For several months before the actual declaration of war with Spain, the Navy Department had been effecting this concentration.

From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Fish, Carl Russell

The little fat elderly man put his fingers exactly where the other's had been, effecting the exchange with a sharp gesture; and each watched intently to see that it was right to within a millimetre.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire