I must confess that the young man's handsome person had produced a certain effect upon me—a giddy young girl as I was at that time; and I rather encouraged my father in these schemes than otherwise.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
It was a frame of mind, too, which always produced a chilling effect upon my feelings towards him.
— from Youth by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
The same newspaper that had imparted the pleasing intelligence, supplied me with information of another kind—which also produced a cheering effect upon my spirits.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid
The sensation that if you leave one country you can immediately go into another, without the intervention of what Lord Byron has so beautifully called the Blue Ocean, (although the ocean or sea is not always blue, but often green) between the two neighbourhoods, produces a curious effect upon my idiosyncrasy.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
"In good truth," Valentine replied, "I can scarcely tell you why; but what you said of the expression of this man's countenance, produced a certain effect upon me.
— from The Adventurers by Gustave Aimard
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