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ardor
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    His ardor eventually cools, especially since I ignore his passionate glances and pedal blithely on my way.†  (source)
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    Instead, almost every night it was dinner parties and busy restaurant tables with her friends, strenuous occasions where (jumpy, un-opiated, wracked to the last synapse), it was hard for me to make the proper show of social ardor, particularly when I was tired after work—and then too the wedding preparations, an avalanche of trivia in which I was expected to interest myself as enthusiastically as she, bright tissue-paper flurries of brochures and merchandise.†  (source)
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    Stuck in the middle of the cold, endless expanse of forests and grasslands, their burning ardor was meaningless.†  (source)
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    Indeed, Heather Brocklebank is one of my better students; she has inherited her mother's ardor— while, at the same time, her imagination ranges far beyond dandelions.†  (source)
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    It was because she felt safer with him ...because she did not associate ardors and embraces with a middle-aged gentleman whose attitude towards her was almost fatherly.†  (source)
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    Now he's disappeared from the social life he once dominated and spends his time composing an epic poem...why, even the young girls are safe from his goatish ardor.†  (source)
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    There must have been bitterness and dire quarrels all along mixed with the stolen satisfactions and ardors.†  (source)
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    He considered fondling Esgred's breast again, but she would probably only take his hand away, and all this talk of his uncles had dampened his ardor somewhat.†  (source)
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    Babbitt was so hopeful about Escott's hesitant ardors that he became the playful parent.†  (source)
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    Husky with ardor!†  (source)
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    And I was cast out because my coarse ardors were too much for your refinement—because you didn't want any more children.†  (source)
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    And the rigors of prison didn't dim his ardor for you?†  (source)
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    In this June time, too, the dog-roses were in their glory, and that was an additional reason why Maggie should direct her walk to the Red Deeps, rather than to any other spot, on the first day she was free to wander at her will,—a pleasure she loved so well, that sometimes, in her ardors of renunciation, she thought she ought to deny herself the frequent indulgence in it.†  (source)
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