1 Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
2 I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.
3 "We've got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.
4 Hers, for me, was, I believe, fervent as the attachment of your sister to Mr. Willoughby and it was, though from a different cause, no less unfortunate.
5 And it is not so much the embrace she gave me, that lives in my mind, though it was as fervent as could be, as what followed the embrace.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON 6 My letter to Agnes was a fervent and grateful one, narrating all the good effects that had resulted from my following her advice.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 7 She gave me no advice; she urged no duty on me; she only told me, in her own fervent manner, what her trust in me was.
8 However loud the general voice might be in giving me encouragement, and however fervent the emotions and endeavours to which it roused me, I heard her lightest word of praise as I heard nothing else.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY 9 Before him rose a grotesque mass of rocks, that resembled nothing so much as a vast fire petrified at the moment of its most fervent combustion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 10 Dantes rose, advanced a few steps, and, with a fervent prayer of gratitude, stretched himself on the granite, which seemed to him softer than down.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 11 And Mercedes raised her fine eyes to heaven with so fervent an expression of gratitude, that the count fancied he saw tears in them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 12 Maximilian uttered a cry of delight, and, springing forwards, seized the hand extended towards him, and imprinted on it a fervent and impassioned kiss.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch. 13 Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons, the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter.
14 Whitcross regained, I followed a road which led from the sun, now fervent and high.
15 She felt that Jane's feelings, though fervent, were little displayed, and that there was a constant complacency in her air and manner not often united with great sensibility.