All 5 Uses of
earnest
in
Treasure Island
- I'm fifty, mark you; once back from this cruise, I set up gentleman in earnest.†
Chpt 11 *
- By the sound they must have been talking earnestly, and almost fiercely; but no distinct word came to my hearing.†
Chpt 14
- I began to see we should have a brush for it in earnest and looked to my priming.†
Chpt 18
- Just about the same time, the sun had gone down behind the Spy-glass, and as the fog was collecting rapidly, it began to grow dark in earnest.†
Chpt 22
- Silver was a changed man once he was out there and had his back to his friends and the block house; his cheeks seemed to have fallen in, his voice trembled; never was a soul more dead in earnest.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
-
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined