FERVOR in a Sentence

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For FERVOR, below is one of 23 sentences:
Never did he work with such fervor and success as when things went ill with him, and especially when he quarreled with his wife.

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 Meanings and Examples of FERVOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fervor
 n.  intensity of feeling; warmth of feeling; intense, heated emotion
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  They took it for granted that she was imbued with their own patriotic fervor and would have been shocked to know how slight an interest in the war she had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  She even refused the ten- dollar gold piece which I, in my groomlike fervor, wished to present her after the wedding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  In the fervor of discussing the game they ignored her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Her jungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge of half-formed thought about the creation of beauty by suggestion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  She was not very successful at accepting his fervor with the air of amused woman of the world, but she sounded reasonably impersonal: "Thank you."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  His fine face, classic as that of a Greek statue, seemed actually to burn with the fervor of his feelings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  There are plenty among them who have only enough of the African to give a sort of tropical warmth and fervor to our calculating firmness and foresight.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  There is a vivid excitement, a thrill and fervor, which may carry through any crisis of suffering that is the birth-hour of eternal glory and rest.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  The deep fervor of Tom's feelings, the softness of his voice, his tears, fell like dew on the wild, unsettled spirit of the poor woman.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  In a word, an almost poetical fervor prevailed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
11  Rage supplanted religious fervor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
12  The dignity of the wife checked the fervor of the lover and the mother.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 89. A Nocturnal Interview.
13  I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervor of gratitude.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
14  Never did he work with such fervor and success as when things went ill with him, and especially when he quarreled with his wife.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 10
15  Alexey Alexandrovitch had disliked this new enthusiastic fervor.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 22
Example Sentence:
1  At the protest rally, the students cheered the strikers and booed the dean with equal fervor.
2  On this solemn day, the congregation responded to the prayers of the priest during the litany with fervor and intensity.
3  The hype and fervor surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.