All 8 Uses of
earnest
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- "Are you in earnest, Marilla?" she demanded when voice returned to her.†
Chpt 1
- "She certainly did, Miss Cuthbert," corroborated Flora Jane earnestly.†
Chpt 6 *
- "You're only Anne of Green Gables," she said earnestly, "and I see you, just as you are looking now, whenever I try to imagine I'm the Lady Cordelia.†
Chpt 8
- "Your complexion is just as fair as Ruby's," said Diana earnestly, "and your hair is ever so much darker than it used to be before you cut it."†
Chpt 28
- I prayed, Mrs. Allan, most earnestly, but I didn't shut my eyes to pray, for I knew the only way God could save me was to let the flat float close enough to one of the bridge piles for me to climb up on it.†
Chpt 28
- Anne flung her arms about Marilla's waist and looked up earnestly into her face.†
Chpt 30
- They had met and passed each other on the street a dozen times without any sign of recognition and every time Anne had held her head a little higher and wished a little more earnestly that she had made friends with Gilbert when he asked her, and vowed a little more determinedly to surpass him in the examination.†
Chpt 32
- Anne looked earnestly into her friend's face.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
-
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined