Both Uses of
vehement
in
The War of the Worlds
- The sound of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks, and every church within earshot was hard at work killing sleep with a vehement disorderly tocsin.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- Before the Martian invasion, as an occasional reader here or there may remember, I had written with some little vehemence against the telepathic theory.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(vehement) marked by extreme intensity -- especially emotion such as anger