Passion, to Pope

Usage examples of ardour.

The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.

Let me undeceive you, and believe me when I say that the full gratification of desires can only increase a hundredfold the mutual ardour of two beings who adore each other.

If a feeling of modesty does not deter you from shewing yourself tender, loving, and full of amorous ardour with me in his presence, how could I be ashamed, when, on the contrary, I ought to feel proud of myself?

The intensity of our ardour will excite his own, and he will throw himself at my feet, begging and entreating me to give up to him the only object likely to calm his amorous excitement.

My amorous ardour and my rage forbade all thoughts of rest, and my excited passions conspired against that which would enable them to satisfy their desires.

After we had satiated in part our amorous ardour we breathed again and sat down.

Her ardour made me amorous, and I rendered homage to her charms till I fell asleep with fatigue.

I took her within my arms, and already her captive, I pressed her amorously to my heart, printing on her lips a fiery kiss, which she gave me back with as much ardour.

The ardours thus aroused passed into our talk and we began to discuss the secret which the oracle had revealed.

After all this talking, of which my ardour began to weary, we abandoned ourselves to love, then to sleep, then to love again, and so on alternately till day-break.

It was when he bethought him of that age of his that he was chiefly intrigued by the amazing ardour of this great lady of Bearn.

Marinetta, as cheerful as a lark, ran to lock the door and came back to me, her eyes beaming with ardour.

When everybody had gone to bed, she came into my room with a little frightened manner, calculated to redouble my ardour, but by great good luck, feeling I had a necessity, I took the light and ran to the place where I could satisfy it.

He thought at first that the next time should be right now, then realised that his ardour had cooled even faster than his manhood.

The burning ardour of my love was increased by the abstinence to which I condemned myself, although Lucie did everything in her power to make me break through my determination.