All 19 Uses of
earnest
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- As I saw the cheek grow paler, and the eye more glassy, how earnestly I prayed in my heart that she might live!†
Chpt 1
- Most earnestly did she strive to make us feel that it was the will of God: that He had seen fit to place us under such circumstances; and though it seemed hard, we ought to pray for contentment.†
Chpt 4
- William was often sent to buy fruit, and he earnestly inquired of me what he ought to do under such circumstances.†
Chpt 4
- I looked at him to see whether he was in earnest.†
Chpt 4
- She had an interview with the doctor, and I believe she pleaded my cause earnestly; but it was all to no purpose.†
Chpt 7
- He was going to Savannah to see about a little property left him by an uncle; and hard as it was to bring my feelings to it, I earnestly entreated him not to come back.†
Chpt 7
- I had prayed for his death, but never so earnestly as I now prayed for his life; and my prayer was heard.†
Chpt 11
- He had a most earnest desire to learn to read.
Chpt 13 *earnest = serious
- How earnestly I prayed that she might never feel the weight of slavery's chain, whose iron entereth into the soul!†
Chpt 14
- She looked earnestly at me, and said, "Linda, do you want to kill your old grandmother?†
Chpt 16
- My grandmother looked earnestly at her.†
Chpt 18
- O, how earnestly I prayed that she might recover!†
Chpt 23
- How earnestly I prayed to him to restore me to my children, and enable me to be a useful woman and a good mother!†
Chpt 26
- I persuaded my grandmother to go to him, and tell him I was not dead, and that I earnestly entreated him to keep the promise he had made me; that I had heard of the recent proposals concerning my children, and did not feel easy to accept them; that he had promised to emancipate them, and it was time for him to redeem his pledge.†
Chpt 27
- Peter remonstrated earnestly.†
Chpt 29
- Before she left me, she asked very earnestly, "Mother, will you take me to live with you?"†
Chpt 32
- I looked at him earnestly.†
Chpt 33
- She pleaded with an earnest tenderness, that ought to have moved me; but I was in a bitter, disheartened mood.†
Chpt 41
- I repeatedly urged her to consent to the publication of her narrative; for I felt that it would arouse people to a more earnest work for the disinthralment of millions still remaining in that soul-crushing condition, which was so unendurable to her.†
Chpt Appe
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined