All 10 Uses of
earnest
in
The House of Mirth
- Miss Bart, accordingly, rose the next morning with the most earnest conviction that it was her duty to go to church.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Suddenly she raised her eyes with the beseeching earnestness of a child.†
Chpt 1.12
- And the Duchess of Beltshire has taken up Becassin's lately," Mrs. Bry earnestly summed up.†
Chpt 2.1
- But it's not too late," she ended earnestly, "it's not too late for either of you."†
Chpt 2.2
- I see," she affirmed, with the more earnestness because she was so nervously conscious that she did not; and after a pause she added: "I'm so sorry—but ought we to have waited?"†
Chpt 2.2
- He was so desperately in earnest, poor youth, and his earnestness was of so different a quality from Bertha's, though hers too was desperate enough.†
Chpt 2.2
- He was so desperately in earnest, poor youth, and his earnestness was of so different a quality from Bertha's, though hers too was desperate enough.†
Chpt 2.2
- The difference was that Bertha was in earnest only about herself, while he was in earnest about her.†
Chpt 2.2
- The difference was that Bertha was in earnest only about herself, while he was in earnest about her.†
Chpt 2.2
- He was too much in earnest now to feel any false constraint in speaking his mind.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined