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  • At the space-age, glassed-in office of the storage facility, I was the only customer; and though I'd prepared a cover story (ardent camper; neat-freak mom) the men at the desk seemed completely uninterested in my large, well-labeled sporting goods bag with the tag of the pup tent dangling artfully outside.†   (source)
  • Chacko studied his treatise on "The Peaceful Transition to Communism" with an adolescent's obsessive diligence and an ardent fan's unquestioning approval.†   (source)
  • Linna, who had become an ardent Zen Gnostic in the years between, cried and left early.†   (source)
  • An ardent city booster I knew from work couldn't wait to confront me.†   (source)
  • He wished ardently to grasp the chance, but in those days young men did nothing without their parents' consent.†   (source)
  • There was no written language, but an oral tradition so ardent that when the Catholic fathers fixed letters to the words of Kikongo, its poetry and stories poured into print with the force of a flood.†   (source)
  • "His friends all noticed it," said Joseph Medill, once an ally but later Harrison's most ardent opponent, "they would laugh or smile about it, and called it 'Carter Harrisonia.'†   (source)
  • Rosalie and Emmett kissed again—longer and more ardently than before.†   (source)
  • The certainty that he was finally fighting for his own liberation and not for abstract ideals, for slogans that politicians could twist left and right according to the circumstances, filled him with an ardent enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • That goddammed minister in the Christian party was an ardent advocate of the AIA, which was going to set up a paper mill in Krakow and provide new equipment for a metals industry in Riga, a cement factory in Tallinn, and so on.†   (source)
  • Waxing ardent about the uncomplicated pleasures of sawing rafters and pounding nails, Andy admitted that when Rob had first offered him this Everest job he'd been ambivalent about accepting it: "It was quite hard to leave Fiona and the house, actually.†   (source)
  • Blanca wept, throwing her arms around his neck, clasping him to her ardently, and covering his face with kisses.†   (source)
  • He wished, he rejected, he ardently wished again, in flight, in heat-spell river of wind and blaze of metal, in jog of July and August horses whose hoofs thudded the air like thrown fruit, his eyes blazed.†   (source)
  • Disney's father was an ardent socialist, and Disney's films had long expressed a populist celebration of the common man.†   (source)
  • Like my classmates, I was an ardent supporter of Great Britain, and I was enormously excited to learn that the speaker at the university's graduation ceremony at the end of my first year would be England's great advocate in South Africa, the former prime minister Jan Smuts.†   (source)
  • His research so horrified him that he became an ardent abolitionist for life.†   (source)
  • From the first, he had his ardent supporters.†   (source)
  • Prospecting for gold, skin-diving for sunken treasure-these were but two of the projects Perry had ardently proposed.†   (source)
  • He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with everybody he met.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald has become an ardent Communist, with the intention of committing yet another bold act to further that political cause.†   (source)
  • The flies—my most ardent admirers—dart about my face.†   (source)
  • Brazelton favored early, ardent stimulation—an "interactive" child.†   (source)
  • At night, Cedric studied ardently.†   (source)
  • The dance seemed to him a declaration that her devotion, her ardent desire to satisfy his every whim, was not necessarily bound to his person, that if she hadn't met Tomas, she would have been ready to respond to the call of any other man she might have met instead.†   (source)
  • But what happens if he ardently opposes the catcher's selection?†   (source)
  • His hello kisses in the visiting room grew more ardent, and he wanted to play footsie under the card tables.†   (source)
  • I only want to be very sure that I know what your real preferences are," and he turned and searched her face with a pair of ardent eyes.†   (source)
  • Remember him however you like, but Brain was the most ardent student of black magic I've ever met.†   (source)
  • Soon he was rooting ardently for Aristide, like virtually everyone else in Cange, and like them listening almost constantly to the radio dispatches from the capital.†   (source)
  • But in striking contrast, several of the most powerful speakers in Parliament, like the flamboyant Lord Mayor of London, John Wilkes, and the leading Whig intellectual, Edmund Burke, had voiced ardent support for and admiration of the Americans.†   (source)
  • With a masterful flourish, he brought the briefing to a close and turned expectantly to receive ardent congratulations from General Dreedle — who was already striding out of the building without a glance backward, trailing his nurse and Colonel Moodus behind him.†   (source)
  • And in the South Pacific the Marines' stunning victory at Guadalcanal—the first American land battle of World War II—would ignite new waves of patriotism and fighting fervor among ardent, impressionable American boys.†   (source)
  • "You require passage for a hundred Dothraki, all their horses, yourself and this knight, and three dragons?" said the captain of the great cog Ardent Friend before he walked away laughing.†   (source)
  • She was suddenly his ardent advocate.†   (source)
  • As we lay there, this forty-year-old man grew ardent yet again, and again I capitulated.†   (source)
  • —Or so I ardently, desperately affirmed.†   (source)
  • "Let us pray that it is so," said Elinor, her face ardent.†   (source)
  • He's over eighty now, and although I love him dearly, I regret to say he's an ardent supporter of the senator.†   (source)
  • It always made for better reading, even among his ardent sports fans.†   (source)
  • Despite being an ardent supporter of abolition, he was respected throughout the state's political circles as an articulate, principled, and fair-minded man.†   (source)
  • Once, while making rounds, I unintentionally walked in on parents praying ardently at their infant daughter's hospital bed.†   (source)
  • El Líder, it seems, saves his most ardent passions for the revolution.†   (source)
  • Her left breast had been removed five years earlier and he was ardently fondling the sponge beneath her gown.†   (source)
  • Hadn't he once wished, achingly, ardently, only that no revolution should ever take his wife from him?†   (source)
  • I want to say thank you but don't because I'm afraid of being ardent and scaring her off.†   (source)
  • It was a surprising touch of wilderness in the most ardently civilized acreage in South Carolina and a perfect place for a secret rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Surely I never met such ardent individuals.†   (source)
  • My first mentor was a middle-aged Scotsman who gained his livelihood delivering ice, but who was in fact an ardent amateur mammalogist.†   (source)
  • ....My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband—a caring citizen—a worshipper of abstract and unifying God.†   (source)
  • You just ought to be over at Curry's [a local cafe and night spot on the highway leading into Mansfield, run by ardent segregationists].†   (source)
  • She would have responded to the ardency of their beliefs.†   (source)
  • For no clear reason a series of somber chords, struck in the middle of the symphony's andante movement, reminded her of the remarkable poem which had been read to her at the end of her last English class, a few days before, by the teacher, an ardent, fat, patient and conscientious young graduate student known to the class as Mr. Youngstein.†   (source)
  • He loved Siddhartha's eye and sweet voice, he loved his walk and the perfect decency of his movements, he loved everything Siddhartha did and said and what he loved most was his spirit, his transcendent, fiery thoughts, his ardent will, his high calling.†   (source)
  • It was a fine ardent voice and it rang with conviction.†   (source)
  • The moistures of May drowned all save the most ardent stars, and gave back to the earth the sublimated light of the prostrate city.†   (source)
  • He wanted to reach out and hold her back from the destruction she so ardently pursued?†   (source)
  • But a young man would hardly have an ardent wish for a couple of balloons.†   (source)
  • He prayed intensely, ardently, hour after hour.†   (source)
  • As Steve was being gentle and ardent, inside I was talking myself down the path again.†   (source)
  • Or is there some ardent squire dreaming of your favors?†   (source)
  • Trinity was an ardent fan of the EU, whose regulations simplified his visits to the Continent.†   (source)
  • Increasingly ardent requests for a letter followed: "You trollop you.†   (source)
  • That his interest, at first informal, then ardent, was centered on Abigail was obvious to all.†   (source)
  • Monique submitted the vaccine to the most ardent series of tests, I assure you.†   (source)
  • You remember that his mother was an ardent Communist.†   (source)
  • As a Quaker and ardent Republican, Logan was not the sort of man Adams was known to favor.†   (source)
  • Because of the family business, he had traveled extensively and was an ardent patriot.†   (source)
  • She saw what latent abilities and strengths were in her ardent suitor and was deeply in love.†   (source)
  • The missing Delaware delegate was Caesar Rodney, one of the most ardent of the independence faction.†   (source)
  • But he was less ardent, less spontaneous than his father.†   (source)
  • "This is the kind of day I could just eat!" cried Cora ardently.†   (source)
  • Was it not this what he used to intend to kill in his ardent years as a penitent?†   (source)
  • My instinct is always quick and ardent and hungry and doesn't lose any time.†   (source)
  • Whisper to my grieving love, my bride, A warm, an ardent word.†   (source)
  • They were a man's arms; and I could feel the mouth of this same man on my neck and cheek, kissing me ardently, and his body pressed up against my back; but it was like the game of blind man's bluff, that children play, as I could not tell who it was, nor could I turn and look.†   (source)
  • Her ardentness was off-putting on a sunny afternoon, and when the open faces of young men caught sight of her they closed down or looked away.†   (source)
  • He knew that to the east there lay an impenetrable mountain chain and that on the other side of the mountains there was the ardent city of Riohacha, where in times past-according to what he had been told by the first Aureliano Buendia, his grandfather-Sir Francis Drake had gone crocodile hunting with cannons and that he repaired hem and stuffed them with straw to bring to Queen Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • It never occurred to us to question whether the town's ardent Little League followers were also steady patrons of The Gravesend Players.†   (source)
  • And by the end of the summer of '58, he had something astonishing for a sixteen-year-old—in those days before all this ardent and cosmetic weightlifting, he had muscles!†   (source)
  • I remember those ardent simpletons who said—and this was after the massacre of those 2,800 civilians in Hue, in '68—that the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese were our moral superiors.†   (source)
  • He called Owen's parents "monstrous," while he outrageously presumed that God had actually "listened" to his ardent, narrow prayer that my mother drop dead; and he arrogantly presumed further that God was now silent, and wouldn't listen to him—as if the Rev. Mr. Merrill, all by himself, possessed the power both to make God pay attention to him and to harden God's heart against him.†   (source)
  • Slavery and the slave trade were hardly the fault of George III, however ardently Jefferson wished to fix the blame on the distant monarch.†   (source)
  • His lawyer, James, had been trying ardently to get him one, but the waiting list seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • The ocean looked like ashes, the old palaces of the marquises were about to succumb to a proliferation of beggars, and it was impossible to discern the ardent scent of jasmine behind the vapors of death from the open sewers.†   (source)
  • When she had first appeared in Holcomb, a melancholy, imaginative child, willowy, wan and sensitive, then eight, a year younger than Nancy, the Clutters had so ardently adopted her that the fatherless little girl California soon came to seem a member of the family.†   (source)
  • She moved in splendid maturity, her feminine charms were even more exciting, and her ardent African body was becoming more compact.†   (source)
  • Her belated interest so delighted Ralph that as they huddled over the kitchen table, he kissed her several times, ardently.†   (source)
  • The minister was speaking in a broad, calling tone, and though I couldn't hear what he was saying, I felt sure from the waves of sound that his sermon was deeply and earnestly uttered and thus worthy of Anne Hickey, who was nothing but kind and straightforward and estimably ardent, the sort of woman I might wish for if ever I would enjoy the company of someone again, the sort of woman Mary Burns was to the core and that I'd always hoped Sunny would someday become, and perhaps is now.†   (source)
  • Only one man expressed doubts : General John Morin Scott, a leading New York attorney and ardent patriot-turned-soldier.†   (source)
  • Many men before you have talked bitterly about the school when they were cadets only to become among its most ardent champions.†   (source)
  • Cedric, suffused with warmth and relief, listens intently as the crowd cheers, like when they all marched in, but more ardently this time.†   (source)
  • She heard herself go into explanations so ardent and newly struck that she realized she'd been withholding them from herself.†   (source)
  • Marine discipline and the sacrificial bonding of ardent young men was prevailing over concrete, steel, and thick volcanic rock.†   (source)
  • The landfill showed him smack-on how the waste stream ended, where all the appetites and hankerings, the sodden second thoughts came runneling out, the things you wanted ardently and then did not.†   (source)
  • dots-plus would have no chance of succeeding in Russia without the ardent help of the generals who ran the prisons.†   (source)
  • But he did not allow their fingers to intertwine; instead he grasped her by the wrist and moved her hand along his body with an invisible but well-directed strength until she felt the ardent breath of a naked animal without bodily form, but eager and erect.†   (source)
  • In explanation, a romantic story spread— a story that would become legendary—that a Mrs. Robert Murray, a Quaker and an ardent patriot, had delayed William Howe and his generals by inviting them to afternoon tea at her country home at Inclenberg, later known as Murray Hill.†   (source)
  • I could feel myself struggle with a game and ardent inarticulateness as I tried to explain the concept of honor to the staggered, uncomprehending mass of boys who shivered in the air conditioning below me.†   (source)
  • She disturbed the balance between promise and lack of guarantee (which, when maintained, is a sign of flirtistic virtuosity); she promised too ardently, and without making it clear that the promise involved no guarantee on her part.†   (source)
  • It would be six weeks before the news reached London, and on May 6, a storm of criticism and recrimination erupted in Parliament, led by the same ardent Whigs whose real power was no more than it had ever been.†   (source)
  • Farmer says that Ti Jean's discourse has reminded him of his first ardent explorations of Haiti and of the dozens of Voodoo ceremonies he attended.†   (source)
  • The junta had focused most of its terror on the urban slums, because some of Aristide's most ardent support was concentrated in them, and the slums were also at the center of Haiti's AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • Like Washington, like Greene—and like Adams—Knox longed ardently for a separation from Britain, and the sooner the better.†   (source)
  • The same Whig leaders in Parliament spoke out as they had before, ardently denouncing the "wicked war."†   (source)
  • Though the woman he'd met in Cuba worked ardently on his behalf, UNAIDS turned down the application he'd submitted, on the grounds that his AIDS-treatment program failed to meet "sustainability criteria."†   (source)
  • I wish most ardently you could get the north end of the house covered in this fall, if you should be obliged to send all over Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania for nails to do it with.†   (source)
  • You, my dear sir, have ever possessed a nature too ardent, too full of benevolent feelings ....to sink into the cold and thankless state of stoicism.†   (source)
  • While his entire political standing, his reputation as President, were riding on his willingness to make peace, Adams was no less ardent for defense.†   (source)
  • Marshall, a forty-two-year-old lawyer, was an ardent champion ofGeorge Washington under whom he had served gallantly in the war.†   (source)
  • Mr. A, to a sound understanding, has always appeared to me to add an ardent love for the public good.†   (source)
  • "He had prepared himself apparently with great labor and ardent zeal," Adams would recall admiringly.†   (source)
  • Overflowing with energy and goodwill, he was ardent for reform of all kinds: smallpox inoculation for the poor, humane care for the insane, reform of the penal code, but especially for the abolition of slavery.†   (source)
  • They were "more tolerant of heat, and less so of cold, than whites...more ardent after their female," but love seemed with them "to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation.†   (source)
  • Among the surprises of the unfolding drama, as tensions increased, was the extent to which the ardent, disputatious John Adams held himself in rein, proving when need be a model of civility and self-restraint, even of patience.†   (source)
  • For instead of being "the ardent pursuer of science" that some imagined, Jefferson was the captive of ambition, and ambition, Adams told John Quincy, was "the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field ....[and] wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.†   (source)
  • The rumors of this that reached Adams at Quincy would be confirmed before the year was out by his old friend Elbridge Gerry, who was a presidential elector for Massachusetts and, like Adams, an ardent antiparty man.†   (source)
  • In less than a year's time, as a delegate to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, he had emerged as one of the most "sensible and forcible" figures in the whole patriot cause, the "Great and Common Cause," his influence exceeding even that of his better-known kinsman, the ardent Boston patriot Samuel Adams.†   (source)
  • I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society...At one table sits Mr. Insipid foppling and fluttering, spinning his whirligig, or playing with his fingers as gaily and wittily as any Frenchified coxcomb brandishes his cane and rattles his snuff box.†   (source)
  • She would remain at home, but ten-year-old Johnny was to go with his father, as the boy ardently wished.†   (source)
  • As ardently as he longed for home, he hated to leave Paris, hated to leave France, and expected he would never return.†   (source)
  • Even those in Congress who had been so ardently opposed, now, by word or deed, committed themselves to the "Glorious Revolution."†   (source)
  • In letters to Congress stressing the need for an envoy to Britain, Adams neither offered recommendations nor said anything of his own feelings, as ardently as he wanted the assignment.†   (source)
  • They belonged to the ardently anti-French, pro-British wing of the party who considered Alexander Hamilton their leader, and because of this, and the fact that they had served in the Washington cabinet, they were inclined to look down on John Adams.†   (source)
  • He read one more time the poem about friendship and suddenly, ardently, Benson wished he had a friend so he could mail the poem to him.†   (source)
  • But though very little is more pleasurable than a marijuana buzz, it is a curious fact of experience that the higher one goes, the more ardently one longs for brown sugar or, alternatively, peanut butter.†   (source)
  • Annihilating those miles between them—the miles I came along to travel with him, that first time on the train—those miles he knew nearly altogether by heart, he wrote more often than any once a day, and mailed his letters directly onto the mail car—letters that are so ardent, so direct and tender in expression, so urgent, that they seemed to bare, along with his love, the rest of his whole life to me.†   (source)
  • He had two characteristic features, two passions: an unusual power of clear and logical reasoning, and a great moral purity and sense of justice; he was ardent and honorable.†   (source)
  • Everybody, at sun-up, crowded to the rail to turn one concerted gaze, full and ardent, on the first big black island rocks.†   (source)
  • Virgie would be heard from in the world, playing that, Miss Eckhart said, revealing to children with one ardent cry her lack of knowledge of the world.†   (source)
  • In the course of the past months his feeling for a courageous exploit or a heart-felt speech had unconsciously become associated with stages, speakers' platforms, or just chairs onto which you jumped to fling an appeal or ardent call to the crowds.†   (source)
  • Remember?" cried Miss Myra ardently.†   (source)
  • Now that Tonia had taken this supreme and most difficult task on her slender and fragile shoulders (she seemed slender and fragile to him, though she was a perfectly healthy girl), he was filled with the ardent sympathy and timid wonder that are the beginning of passion.†   (source)
  • Frederick's voice trembles with ardency.†   (source)
  • I am sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative.†   (source)
    ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
  • A sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative man, Mr Flintwinch, must be that, or nothing!'†   (source)
  • But with what ardent thankfulness and love I say this, I may call Heaven to witness!'†   (source)
  • In his youth he had ardently loved this woman, and had heaped upon her all the locked-up wealth of his affection and imagination.†   (source)
    ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
  • Then it appeared that he was the son of a north-country blacksmith, and had originally been apprenticed by his widowed mother to a lock-maker; that he had 'struck out a few little things' at the lock-maker's, which had led to his being released from his indentures with a present, which present had enabled him to gratify his ardent wish to bind himself to a working engineer, under whom he had laboured hard, learned hard, and lived hard, seven years.†   (source)
    ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
  • Of which remarkable gentlewoman it may be finally observed, that there surely never was a gentlewoman of whose transcendent fitness for any vacant appointment on the face of this earth, so many people were (as the warmth of her Testimonials evinced) so perfectly satisfied—or who was so very unfortunate in having a large circle of ardent and distinguished admirers, who never themselves happened to want her in any capacity.†   (source)
  • For I must now confess to you that I suffer from home-sickness—that I long so ardently and earnestly for home, as sometimes, when no one sees me, to pine for it.†   (source)
    ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
  • But for myself, let me emphasize, I am ardently attracted.†   (source)
  • There are signs, ahem, of ardent affection.†   (source)
  • The ardent gardener or landowner, in fact?†   (source)
  • Papa was an ardent Democrat but mama just didn't care.†   (source)
  • I'm going away tomorrow and I'm too ardent a lover to restrain my passion any longer.†   (source)
  • Straightway Young became one of the most ardent members of our organization, admired by all.†   (source)
  • She was dark, she had black eyes, her throat was ardent but her hands rather powerless.†   (source)
  • Hasn't your ardent beau popped the question yet?†   (source)
  • She had missed him but she now wished ardently that there was some way to avoid seeing him.†   (source)
  • These twelve million Negroes, conditioned broadly by our own notions as we were by European ones when we first came here, are struggling within unbelievably narrow limits to achieve that feeling of at-home-ness for which we once strove so ardently.†   (source)
  • For he was gayer than I had thought, more tender than I had dreamed, youthful and ardent in a hundred happy ways, not the Maxim I had first met, not the stranger who sat alone at the table in the restaurant, staring before him, wrapped in his secret self.†   (source)
  • I was now, as I perceived, that good-looking and ardent boy whom I had seen making so eagerly for love's door.†   (source)
  • Before they came to the house, crossing a field, it would be necessary to go over a stile; he would go over first, helping her down, looking ardently at the graceful curve of her long, deliberately exposed, silk-clad leg.†   (source)
  • The boy was not Johnnie, and the man was an ardent motorist, fond of children, who had picked up a small child playing in the streets of Edenswell, a village about fifteen miles from us, and was kindly giving him a ride.†   (source)
  • The problem was solved easily enough when Rambert discovered that horse-face was an ardent football-player.†   (source)
  • Under these circumstances people like Gottfried Benn, no matter how ardently they support Hitler, become a liability; and we hear no more of them in Nazi Germany.†   (source)
  • As they neared the corner, Esther's shrieks grew shriller and shriller, Leo's cries more ardent, his supporting arm lower and more lingering.†   (source)
  • She hopped through a game ardently wishing someone were playing with her as she was sure she won with less hops than any other little girl in the world.†   (source)
  • My mother, her health failing rapidly, spoke constantly now of Granny's home, of how ardently she wanted to see us grow up before she died.†   (source)
  • The Union, if it was to be maintained, as Lincoln, an ardent nationalist, thought it must, could be defended only by the sort of aggressive war that few Northerners wanted to wage.†   (source)
  • And he saw that the waters had receded and the land lay shining under the dry cold wind and under the ardent sun.†   (source)
  • She was an ardent feeder of people, and often cooked for the salesmen; she hated to see us go to restaurants, where everything, she said, in her impersonator's foreign voice that nothing could interrupt, was so cheap and sticky.†   (source)
  • He wished he could have said more, and then suddenly the sense of pity and irony floated over him in a filmy haze; this youth, so eager and ardent, would take things very hardly.†   (source)
  • Give me without fail in your next letter a full account of the patient's reactions to the war, so that we can consider whether you are likely to do more good by making him an extreme patriot or an ardent pacifist.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Pettingill was a cousin of the Bank president's wife and a famous authority on the ruins of Pompeii; the Bank president was an ardent admirer of Julius Caesar and had once, while in Rome, spent an hour and a quarter in reverent inspection of the Coliseum.†   (source)
  • In their own hearts the chief characters of the Round Table felt the ardent feelings which they had always felt—but now they were figures instead of people.†   (source)
  • There was nothing left in the house to feed his father and his children—nothing to feed this woman of his who besides the nourishment of her own body had this other one to feed into growth, this other one who would, with the cruelty of new and ardent life, steal from the very flesh and blood of its mother.†   (source)
  • Like all great spirits, Herr von Goethe, you have clearly recognised and felt the riddle and the hopelessness of human life, with its moments of transcendence that sink again to wretchedness, and the impossibility of rising to one fair peak of feeling except at the cost of many days' enslavement to the daily round; and, then, the ardent longing for the realm of the spirit in eternal and deadly war with the equally ardent and holy love of the lost innocence of nature, the whole frightful suspense in vacancy and uncertainty, this condemnation to the transient that can never be valid, that is ever experimental and dilettantish; in short, the utter lack of purpose to which the huma†   (source)
  • When off duty, Japp was an ardent botanist, and discoursed upon minute flowers possessed of unbelievably lengthy Latin names (somewhat strangely pronounced) with an enthusiasm even greater than that he gave to his cases.†   (source)
  • Granny was an ardent member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and I was compelled to make a pretense of worshiping her God, which was her exaction for my keep.†   (source)
  • Never again did I write words like that; I kept them to myself After my father's desertion, my mother's ardently religious disposition dominated the household and I was often taken to Sunday school where I met God's representative in the guise of a tall, black preacher.†   (source)
  • Scarlett had received too many ardent love letters herself not to recognize the authentic note of passion when she saw it.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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!†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • I ardently echoed, giving her my hand to make it a vow.†   (source)
  • They did it all over the world, just to arouse our ardent desires.†   (source)
  • He pursued his revery so ardently that he passed his street and had to turn back.†   (source)
  • The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.†   (source)
  • He wanted—like most poor and ardent young men in such a case, he wanted all he could get.†   (source)
  • Her own fortune was invested in Home Rails, and most ardently did she beg her niece to imitate her.†   (source)
  • Altogether he looked a very handsome young fellow, his ardent affection for her burning in his eyes.†   (source)
  • The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired.†   (source)
  • At this their own shrine, he Knelt with them, an ardent devotee.†   (source)
  • I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.†   (source)
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