All 50 Uses of
earnest
in
David Copperfield
- I am glad to dwell upon the earnestness and love with which she lifted up her face to mine, and did so.†
Chpt 1-3
- She was very earnestly and humbly entreating Miss Murdstone's pardon, which that lady granted, and a perfect reconciliation took place.†
Chpt 4-6
- Then Peggotty fitted her mouth close to the keyhole, and delivered these words through it with as much feeling and earnestness as a keyhole has ever been the medium of communicating, I will venture to assert: shooting in each broken little sentence in a convulsive little burst of its own.†
Chpt 4-6
- Whether Mr. Creakle was in earnest, or whether he only did it to frighten me, I don't know, but he made a burst out of his chair, before which I precipitately retreated, without waiting for the escort Of the man with the wooden leg, and never once stopped until I reached my own bedroom, where, finding I was not pursued, I went to bed, as it was time, and lay quaking, for a couple of hours.†
Chpt 4-6
- CHAPTER 7 MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE School began in earnest next day.†
Chpt 7-9
- What ravages I committed on my favourite authors in the course of my interpretation of them, I am not in a condition to say, and should be very unwilling to know; but I had a profound faith in them, and I had, to the best of my belief, a simple, earnest manner of narrating what I did narrate; and these qualities went a long way.†
Chpt 7-9
- His strong loose hands clench themselves, in his earnestness; and he emphasizes what he says with a right arm that shows, in my pigmy view, like a sledge-hammer.†
Chpt 7-9
- Ham was quite as earnest as he.†
Chpt 7-9
- I looked at her earnestly.†
Chpt 7-9
- I trembled without distinctly knowing why, and still looked at her earnestly, making no attempt to answer.†
Chpt 7-9
- She looked so extraordinarily earnest and pretty, that I stopped in a sort of wonder; and they all observed her at the same time, for as I stopped, they laughed and looked at her.†
Chpt 10-12
- 'Do you recollect the date,' said Mr. Dick, looking earnestly at me, and taking up his pen to note it down, 'when King Charles the First had his head cut off?'†
Chpt 13-15
- In the morning he was downhearted again, and would have sustained himself by giving me all the money he had in his possession, gold and silver too, if my aunt had not interposed, and limited the gift to five shillings, which, at his earnest petition, were afterwards increased to ten.†
Chpt 13-15
- Accordingly, I went to work very hard, both in play and in earnest, and gained great commendation.†
Chpt 16-18
- Whenever I fall into trouble, or fall in love, I shall always tell you, if you'll let me — even when I come to fall in love in earnest.'†
Chpt 19-21
- 'Why, you have always been in earnest!' said Agnes, laughing again.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'Times are altering now, and I suppose I shall be in a terrible state of earnestness one day or other.†
Chpt 19-21
- My wonder is, that you are not in earnest yourself, by this time, Agnes.'†
Chpt 19-21
- We had gone on, so far, in a mixture of confidential jest and earnest, that had long grown naturally out of our familiar relations, begun as mere children.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'My first master will succeed me — I am in earnest at last — so you'll soon have to arrange our contracts, and to bind us firmly to them, like a couple of knaves.'†
Chpt 19-21
- For example, when Mrs. Steerforth observed, more in jest than earnest, that she feared her son led but a wild life at college, Miss Dartle put in thus: 'Oh, really?†
Chpt 19-21
- ' Mr. Peggotty, in simple earnestness, waved his right arm, as if he were waving it at the town-lights for the last time, and then, exchanging a nod with Ham, whose eye he caught, proceeded as before.†
Chpt 19-21
- He stopped, and, looking in my face, said, 'Daisy, I believe you are in earnest, and are good.†
Chpt 19-21
- At length I begged him, with all the earnestness I felt, to tell me what had occurred to cross him so unusually, and to let me sympathize with him, if I could not hope to advise him.†
Chpt 22-24
- His face was always full of expression, but I never saw it express such a dark kind of earnestness as when he said these words, with his glance bent on the fire.†
Chpt 22-24
- Em'ly couldn't speak to her theer, for her loving uncle was come home, and he wouldn't — no, Mas'r Davy,' said Ham, with great earnestness, 'he couldn't, kind-natur'd, tender-hearted as he is, see them two together, side by side, for all the treasures that's wrecked in the sea.'†
Chpt 22-24
- Em'ly, with her arms around her neck, kneeled by her, looking up most earnestly into her face.†
Chpt 22-24
- She waved her hand to me to go away, so earnestly, that, all confounded as I was, I turned from them at once.†
Chpt 22-24
- I suppose I expressed it, somehow; for after she had looked at me attentively for a little while, she appeared to understand, and replied in a low tone: 'I know you will do as I ask you, if I tell you I am very earnest in it.†
Chpt 22-24
- It was always earnest; but when it was very earnest, as it was now, there was a thrill in it that quite subdued me.†
Chpt 25-27
- It was always earnest; but when it was very earnest, as it was now, there was a thrill in it that quite subdued me.†
Chpt 25-27
- 'We are not likely to remain alone much longer,' said Agnes, 'and while I have an opportunity, let me earnestly entreat you, Trotwood, to be friendly to Uriah.†
Chpt 25-27
- There's a babby fur you, in the form of a great Sea Porkypine!' said Mr. Peggotty, relieving his earnestness with a roar of laughter.†
Chpt 31-33
- But her face, as she turned it up to mine, was so earnest; and when I relieved her of the umbrella (which would have been an inconvenient one for the Irish Giant), she wrung her little hands in such an afflicted manner; that I rather inclined towards her.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'If I had shown myself a sensitive dwarf to your false friend,' pursued the little woman, shaking her head at me, with reproachful earnestness, 'how much of his help or good will do you think I should ever have had?†
Chpt 31-33
- 'Trust me, I will indeed,' said I, shaking hands with Ham earnestly.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'Then why, my love,' said my aunt, looking earnestly at me, 'why do you think I prefer to sit upon this property of mine tonight?'†
Chpt 34-36
- He assented to this in the most earnest manner; and implored me, if I should see him wandering an inch out of the right course, to recall him by some of those superior methods which were always at my command.†
Chpt 34-36
- 'Someone that I know, Trot,' my aunt pursued, after a pause, 'though of a very pliant disposition, has an earnestness of affection in him that reminds me of poor Baby.†
Chpt 34-36
- Earnestness is what that Somebody must look for, to sustain him and improve him, Trot.†
Chpt 34-36
- Deep, downright, faithful earnestness.'†
Chpt 34-36
- 'If you only knew the earnestness of Dora, aunt!'†
Chpt 34-36
- Her mild but earnest eyes met mine with their own beautiful frankness, and there was no change in her gentle face.†
Chpt 34-36
- I was encouraged by this closing admission on the part of Miss Mills to ask her, whether, for Dora's sake, if she had any opportunity of luring her attention to such preparations for an earnest life, she would avail herself of it?†
Chpt 37-39
- 'I think I am earnest and persevering?'†
Chpt 37-39
- I only knew that I was fervently in earnest, when I felt the rest and peace of having Agnes near me.†
Chpt 37-39
- You might have been in earnest in striving to get on in the world, without being so very sudden with a timid, loving, inexperienced girl.†
Chpt 37-39
- This gave me courage to protest most vehemently that I loved Dora better than I could tell, or anyone believe; that all my friends knew how I loved her; that my aunt, Agnes, Traddles, everyone who knew me, knew how I loved her, and how earnest my love had made me.†
Chpt 40-42
- Her letter was hopeful, earnest, and cheerful.†
Chpt 40-42
- My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined