What is "perfervid"

Usage examples of "perfervid".

Of a wit and grace to match her superb beauty, she was also of a perfervid piety, a daily communicant, a model of virtue to all maids of honour.

The additional heat turned it from viscous to near liquid, so that it dropped off the conduit and deep into the perfervid bowels of the O-daiko itself.

Do I see thee in very truth, thou damsel of disobedience, dear dame of discord, sweet, witching, wilful lady--is it thou in very truth, most loved daughter, or wraith conjured of thy magic and my perfervid imaginations--speak!

Lessingham, quite aware of his perfervid state of mind, had pleasure in delaying.

Swaying his head, like the oriental palm whose shade is a blessing to the perfervid wanderer below, smiling gravely, he was indirectly asking his dignity what he could say to maintain it and deal this mad young woman a bitterly compassionate rebuke.

He is to be the final victim, and his death is presumably intended to form the climactic scene of this perfervid drama.

Scottish preachers of the perfervid type used to refer to it, he was most keen.

Had the Engineers, those perfervid reactionaries, taken offense at her dancing?

Russia and a perfervid determination to see the matter through, should Russia venture to intervene in any way to protect Serbia from whatever measures Austria thought proper to take.

Isaac spread his hands, and looked about at all of the perfervid diggers.

But on a bustling, perfervid world like Visaria, where business was ongoing around the clock and cred was being accumulated by the nanosecond, every sentient species whose culture allowed for the accrual of wealth by an individual, clan, family, or group had an interest in establishing a presence in the capital city.

What with struggling with an 18-page glossary of terms, and concentrating on perfervid prose which makes that of H.

Greek on the pre-existing profane cultures has been scouted by perfervid Hellenists in terms which implied that they hold it little else than impiety.

He liked to hear himself talk, and his stock in trade as a criminal lawyer consisted mainly of perfervid appeals to the sympathies of his juries.

The surrounding pages contained almost equally perfervid advertisements for the Kaiserbad, the Ludwigsbad, the Marienbad, the Johannisbad and several others, each attempting to top all the others' claims of miracle resurrections wrought by their mud baths, sulphur baths, chalybeate baths, esoteric methods of massage, water cures, galvanic cures, dietary cures, etc.