All 7 Uses of
ardent
in
Jane Eyre
- "Never," I thought; and ardently I wished to die.†
Chpt 8 *
- …us, for they are commissioned to guard us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognise our innocence (if innocent we be: as I know you are of this charge which Mr. Brocklehurst has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand from Mrs. Reed; for I read a sincere nature in your ardent eyes and on your clear front), and God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.†
Chpt 8
- Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.†
Chpt 8
- And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours?†
Chpt 13
- One thing specially surprised me, and that was, there were no journeyings backward and forward, no visits to Ingram Park: to be sure it was twenty miles off, on the borders of another county; but what was that distance to an ardent lover?†
Chpt 22
- I looked up at him to read the signs of bliss in his face: it was ardent and flushed.†
Chpt 25
- Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(ardent) showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love