All 7 Uses of
fervent
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Nicholas had not the least objection in the world, but on the contrary was rather pleased to have an opportunity of talking on the subject which occupied his thoughts; so, he sat down again, and (his sanguine imagination warming as he spoke) entered into a fervent and glowing description of all the honours and advantages to be derived from his appointment at that seat of learning, Dotheboys Hall.†
Chpt 4
- …and a great to-do occasioned by the taking up, at a roadside inn, of a very fastidious lady with an infinite variety of cloaks and small parcels, who loudly lamented, for the behoof of the outsides, the non-arrival of her own carriage which was to have taken her on, and made the guard solemnly promise to stop every green chariot he saw coming; which, as it was a dark night and he was sitting with his face the other way, that officer undertook, with many fervent asseverations, to do.†
Chpt 5
- Devoted attachment to her sisters, and a fervent love of all beautiful things in nature, were its pure affections.†
Chpt 6 *
- …from the Lips of Mrs Nickleby The square in which the counting-house of the brothers Cheeryble was situated, although it might not wholly realise the very sanguine expectations which a stranger would be disposed to form on hearing the fervent encomiums bestowed upon it by Tim Linkinwater, was, nevertheless, a sufficiently desirable nook in the heart of a busy town like London, and one which occupied a high place in the affectionate remembrances of several grave persons domiciled…†
Chpt 37
- 'You have but to hint a wish,' returned Nicholas fervently, 'and I would hazard my life to gratify it.'†
Chpt 46
- Old dingy flags grew new again, faded gilding was re-burnished, stained rotten canvas looked a snowy white, the very beggars' rags were freshened up, and sentiment quite forgot its charity in its fervent admiration of poverty so picturesque.†
Chpt 50
- He whom he thus encouraged, raised his withered hands and clasped them fervently together.†
Chpt 55
Definition:
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(fervent) characterized by intense emotion or passionate belief