All 11 Uses of
ardent
in
Gone with the Wind
- Scarlett had received too many ardent love letters herself not to recognize the authentic note of passion when she saw it.†
Chpt 2.11
- That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that she and not Melanie were bestowing it as a Christmas gift.†
Chpt 2.15 *
- Hasn't your ardent beau popped the question yet?†
Chpt 3.28
- She leaned toward him ardently but he held her away from him, looking at her with eyes from which all remoteness had fled, eyes tormented with struggle and despair.†
Chpt 4.31
- As if by magic, the door of the parlor opened and the wide black face of Mammy appeared, ardent curiosity and deepest suspicion evident in every wrinkle.†
Chpt 4.32
- She had not seen a professional bad woman since she left Savannah with Ellen more than twenty years before and she wished ardently that she had observed Belle more closely.†
Chpt 4.33
- She had missed him but she now wished ardently that there was some way to avoid seeing him.†
Chpt 4.43
- I'm going away tomorrow and I'm too ardent a lover to restrain my passion any longer.†
Chpt 4.47
- He could be an ardent, almost a tender, lover for a brief while, and almost immediately a mocking devil who ripped the lid from her gunpowder temper, fired it and enjoyed the explosion.†
Chpt 5.48
- To them, she not only represented wealth and elegance but the old regime, with its old names, old families, old traditions with which they wished ardently to identify themselves.†
Chpt 5.49
- She suddenly wished that they were alone, wished ardently that Rhett and Melanie were at the end of the earth, so she could cry out: "But I want to look at things the way you look at them!†
Chpt 5.57
Definition:
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(ardent) showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love