Impassioned

Usage examples of fervent.

Lamartine, over Espronceda and Quintana, to give her hand a fervent squeeze, before time ran out, and there was Tia Ana out of breath in the doorway, her long shadow like old Father Time himself come to put an end to lessons from that day on.

Monsieur Tonnelet, subscribed to the Fanal, and was a fervent political coreligionist of ours.

Large bodies of troops were gathered in Southern Russia for the purpose of entering the Turkish Danubian provinces, in order to suppress the spirit of revolution which there manifested itself, and found vent in a fervent political agitation.

Adrienne muttered a fervent prayer that the larger logic behind this irrational reality treat her with more benevolence than whatever had thrown Eberhard her way.

The key sentence was: As there has been no reply to my fervent requests and prayers that you return and take up a normal life at home, I have decided put my trust in our Maker and venture to Hong Kong, or the Japans, wherever you are.

Jon told him as much as was needful, ending with a fervent plea that Nostradamus use his influence with the count and the mayor to free Amabel-Venus.

Pausing for just one moment, she was struck with the fervent wish that he was Piers, that the Red Knight would show himself, come to the village and attend to his wife.

She held her poleax in her hand, and her violet eyes shone with a fervent light.

I put up a fervent little prayer that her particular sanitorium might not prove to be in the vicinity of Denver.

Rather, it was a statement of his own fervent patriotism and the taproot conviction that American freedoms were not ideals still to be obtained, but rights long and firmly established by British law and by the courage and sacrifices of generations of Americans.

Hubert, breaking in on the fervent assurances of his juniors that their new relative had gauged their tastes with an accuracy utterly unequaled in all their experience of adults.

Filled with a sense of peace, he again made an offering of tobacco to the earth and the sky and the four winds, and then he murmured a fervent prayer of thanksgiving to Wakan Tanka.

Baron of Brightpennant panted out a fervent curse on all bards, hacked aside a sapling that was in his way, and grimly started searching.

I merely mention the fact, and mine hostess privately assured me that, though built of solid oak, such was the fervent zeal of devotees the chair had to be new bottomed at least once in three years.

Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object.