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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. i sighed.†   (source)
  • His visits to Boston became fewer, though he still responded to her letters with the ardor of a lover.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Fowles wants to address, for reasons unknown, the shortcomings of Victorian males in the ardor department.†   (source)
  • Husky with ardor!†   (source)
  • In the meantime, they continued to write to each other with the same ardor and frequency, but free of the turmoil they had felt before, and their letters tended toward a domestic tone that seemed appropriate to husband and wife.†   (source)
  • She went on that way, silent hour after silent hour; she had done nothing else for thirty-eight evenings now, and each time, her ardor deepened, her thoughts became more pure.†   (source)
  • It seemed not to belong in Yves' twenty-one-year-old face, to have no relation to his open, childlike grin, his puppylike playfulness, the adolescent ardor with which he embraced, then rejected, people, doctrines, theories.†   (source)
  • But the amount of effort that had gone into some of the Valentines, carefully constructed from magazine clippings and scavenged materials, suggested real ardor to me.†   (source)
  • …into the streets somehow, its whisper of reconciliation, a word extending itself ever outward, the tone of agreement or treaty, the tone of repose, the sense of mollifying silence, the tone of hail and farewell, a word that carries the sunlit ardor of an object deep in drenching noon, the argument of binding touch, but it's only a sequence of pulses on a dullish screen and all it can do is make you pensive—a word that spreads a longing through the raw sprawl of the city and out across…†   (source)
  • He also harbored a peculiar ardor for the inner rail.†   (source)
  • Watching the ardor with which the meat was devoured, Mortenson realized how rare such a meal was for the people of Korphe, and how close they lived to hunger.†   (source)
  • …who are born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengeance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism, but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman—made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor—was consuming herself.†   (source)
  • 'The Lord gave us good farmers two strong hands so that we could take as much as we could grab with both of them,' he preached with ardor on the courthouse steps or in front of the A&P as he waited for the bad-tempered gum-chewing young cashier he was after to step outside and give him a nasty look.†   (source)
  • Cedric's ardor and ability to focus helped him accumulate a loose-leaf notebook full of A papers.†   (source)
  • Clumsiness combined with ardor, ardor with clumsiness they excited Tomas utterly.†   (source)
  • I'd been taken aback at first, freaked out by this sudden ardor, worried that it was going to hurt her, and also, not really wanting to look at the stubbly red scar on her thigh where the skin had been taken for her graft or to bang against the snakeskin-like scar on her other leg, even though she kept that one covered with a pressure bandage.†   (source)
  • His guilt came from not sharing the same kind of ardor in the mind of this young sergeant who longed to be home with his wife and daughter more than anything else in life at the moment.†   (source)
  • "My charmer," he called her, and neither his maimed hand nor his politics deterred her ardor.†   (source)
  • I grabbed for either side of the open French doors and braced myself, casting myself forward and clearly inviting his ardor, the hem of my nightgown riding on my hips, his brazen intentions driving me to my toes, my knees quivering, my heart racing.†   (source)
  • Celia is astonished by the words, by the disquieting ardor of her husband's last letters.†   (source)
  • Ser Osney's ardor was wilting in his breeches.†   (source)
  • I learned what was expected of me and I performed it with ardor and enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • She had always had the makings of a legend in her: the prodigious strength, the fearlessness, the religious ardor, the visions she had in which she experienced moments of prescience.†   (source)
  • Back at the cabin we again tried to cool his ardor by firing a volley in the air, but this had no effect except to make him withdraw a few yards farther off.†   (source)
  • In person, though, he was just so much ardor next door, a boy whispering his heart through a solid garden wall.†   (source)
  • …resent his resentment: When I had my defiance given The sun stood trembling in heaven The moon that glowed remote below Became leprous and white as snow And every soul of men on the earth Felt affliction and sorrow and sickness and dearth God flamed in my path and the Sun was hot With the bows of my mind and the arrows of thought My bowstring fierce with ardor breathes My arrows glow in their golden sheaves My brothers and father march before The heavens drop with human gore-- "Stop!"†   (source)
  • As insistent in his ardor as his housekeeper, he was incomparably more awkward and his arms around her seemed multitudinous, like those of a huge mechanical fly.†   (source)
  • Dudorov felt that in her childish ardor she had vowed someday to remove that stigma from her family name.†   (source)
  • The other man's face, with its quiet mouth, for he was the listener, changed from ardor to gloom and back to ardor… .†   (source)
  • 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)
  • they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor
  • Their ardor cooled and they separated.
  • The evening breeze slowly cooled his ardor.†   (source)
  • Everyone experiences ardor like yours at one point or another during their lives.†   (source)
  • For his part, Adams assured her, "I am with all the ardor of youth, yours."†   (source)
  • Just the thought of John's embrace fills me with ardor.†   (source)
  • Without offering much about himself, Cedric senses their ardor to make him part: of the group.†   (source)
  • As John unleashed more ardor toward me than perhaps ever before, we had a witness.†   (source)
  • Learning was not attained by chance, but "must be sought for with ardor."†   (source)
  • She waved the battle banner as though brandishing her burning youth, trusting that the enemy would be burnt to ashes in the revolutionary flames, imagining that an ideal world would be born tomorrow from the ardor and zeal coursing through her blood….†   (source)
  • What she could not endure were the sobs, the laments, the creaking of the bedsprings, which filled her blood with so much ardor and so much sorrow that by dawn she could not bear the desire to go to bed with the first beggar she met on the street, with any miserable drunk who would give her what she wanted with no pretensions and no questions.†   (source)
  • Mary Beth Baird wanted to hold a part of him, too; whether his goosing her had deepened her infatuation, or had put her in her place without trampling an iota of her ardor, is uncertain—regardless, she was his slave, at his command.†   (source)
  • Goatish ardor, m'! ord?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Since the afternoon of their first love, Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula had continued taking advantage of her husband's rare unguarded moments, making love with gagged ardor in chance meetings and almost always interrupted by unexpected returns.†   (source)
  • Low in spirits, feeling misjudged and unappreciated by others in Congress, some of whom, he was sure, mistook his ardor for ambition, he succumbed to brooding and self-pity.†   (source)
  • The result was a formula consisting of three givens: 1) clumsiness with ardor, 2) the frightened face of one who has lost her equilibrium and is falling, and 3) legs raised in the air like the arms of a soldier surrendering to a pointed gun.†   (source)
  • ARDOR.†   (source)
  • Wherever she went, the smallfolk fawned on her, and Lady Margaery did all she could to fan their ardor.†   (source)
  • All at once he realized — though the writhing turbulence beneath him had not diminished one whit — that she was no longer grappling with him, recognized with a quiver that she was not fighting him but heaving her pelvis up against him remorselessly in the primal, powerful, rhapsodic instinctual rhythm of erotic ardor and abandonment.†   (source)
  • But his response was an immediate decision to make a fight, if only, as he later explained to Patrick Henry, "to recover that military ardor which is of the utmost moment to an army."†   (source)
  • …the number of missions to sixty and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.†   (source)
  • The next day, Cedric awakens with renewed ardor, a determination to compete on an even footing, to meet Brown's academic rigors head-on.†   (source)
  • More determined courage and steadfastness in troops have never been experienced, or a greater ardor to distinguish themselves, as all those who had an opportunity have amply evinced by their actions.†   (source)
  • Jefferson replied at once, saying he had returned to farming "with an ardor which I scarcely knew in my youth," and in answer Adams said he knew the very same ardor every summer on his own farm.†   (source)
  • But Phillip was never one to fret over "what ifs"-and, over the years, he's gone about the business of becoming a grown-up with clear-eyed ardor.†   (source)
  • Had my husband conceived of this grand plan to remove my two loves and refocus my ardor upon himself?†   (source)
  • Clinton would later write of Howe's decision to halt: "I had at the moment but little inclination to check the ardor of our troops when I saw the enemy flying in such a panic before them."†   (source)
  • Stirred by emotion, and in a strong voice, Adams recalled the old ardor of the American Revolution and spoke of the "present happy Constitution" as the creation of "good heads prompted by good hearts."†   (source)
  • He added, "The ardor of the troops encouraged me in this hazardous enterprise," and this could be the explanation, though an American who saw the British troops waiting on the wharf to embark, commented that "they looked in general pale and dejected, and said to one another it would be another Bunker Hill or worse."†   (source)
  • It has frozen the ink in my pen, and chilled the blood in my veins, but not the warmth of my affection for him for whom my heart beats with unabated ardor through all the changes and vicissitudes of life, in the still calm of Peacefield, and the turbulent scenes in which he is about to engage.†   (source)
  • "I am, with an ardor that words have not power to express, yours," he had closed a letter to Abigail, and though her wish that he be less stringent in his expressions of affection was entirely understandable, there was never a question about the depth of his feelings or his devotion to her.†   (source)
  • If I complained [before], it was from the ardor of affection which could not endure the least apprehension of neglect…… Sure I am that not a syllable of complaint has ever stained my paper in any letter I have ever written since you left me.†   (source)
  • I have happily surmounted them, but I do not find that I am less solicitous to hear constantly from you than in times of more danger…… Years subdue the ardor of passion but in lieu thereof friendship and affection deep-rooted subsists which defies the ravages of time, and whilst the vital flame exists.†   (source)
  • I fought with words and youthful ardor.†   (source)
  • She agreed, since it had clouded up a little anyway, and we ended up at a boardwalk café where Leslie drank 7-Up and I helped swell the flood of my raging ardor with can after can of Budweiser.†   (source)
  • He told himself: "In the reading room I thought she was absorbed in her reading with the ardor she would give to a real, hard physical task.†   (source)
  • What kind of people are they, to go on raving with this never-cooling, feverish ardor, year in, year out, on nonexistent, long-vanished subjects, and to know nothing, to see nothing around them?†   (source)
  • I was not an editor, but a writer—a writer with the same ardor and the soaring wings of the Melville or the Flaubert or the Tolstoy or the Fitzgerald who had the power to rip my heart out and keep a part of it and who each night, separately and together, were summoning me to their incomparable vocation.†   (source)
  • It was wonderful to be twenty-two and a little drunk, knowing that all went well at the writing desk, shiveringly happy in the clutch of one's own creative ardor and in that "grand certitude" Thomas Wolfe was always hymning—the certitude that the wellsprings of youth would never run dry, and that the wrenching anguish endured in the crucible of art would find its recompense in everlasting fame, and glory, and the love of beautiful women.†   (source)
  • There must have been bitterness and dire quarrels all along mixed with the stolen satisfactions and ardors.†   (source)
  • And I was cast out because my coarse ardors were too much for your refinement—because you didn't want any more children.†   (source)
  • Babbitt was so hopeful about Escott's hesitant ardors that he became the playful parent.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "Aaa, hee, hee!" she snickered, shaking off his ardor.†   (source)
  • I was all ardor and ambition and my fancy was laden with the artist's dreams.†   (source)
  • And the rigors of prison didn't dim his ardor for you?†   (source)
  • She thought she had got me now, but with the next dance it was another for whom my ardor glowed.†   (source)
  • —'swept you off your feet' by my—er—ardor?†   (source)
  • He quivered deliciously to temptation—he kept his titillated honor secure after subjecting it to the most trying inducements: the groomed beauty of the rich man's wife, publicly humiliated by her brutal husband, defended by Bruce-Eugene, and melting toward him with all the pure ardor of her lonely and womanly heart, pouring the sad measure of her life into his sympathetic ears over the wineglasses of her candled, rich, but intimate table.†   (source)
  • They evoke no ardor in the male breast.†   (source)
  • She was my comrade and sister—my double, almost, in her resemblance not to me only, but to Herman, my boyhood friend, the enthusiast, the poet, who had shared with ardor all my intellectual pursuits and extravagances.†   (source)
  • Because of the fact that they felt sheepish, feeling that somehow they had fallen short of his own cold ardor, they would return tomorrow if just to show him.†   (source)
  • Her smile spread wider and lost all other intentions in the single suggestion that it was she who had inflamed me and when hot I had discharged it all upon someone else but that it really didn't matter since she wasn't so little her father's child, though a girl, that all that ardor in the car and in the parlor and with the lips and tongues and fingertips and the rest could make her really lose her head and be unwise.†   (source)
  • Grand began to show an animation unlike his usual self, and his voice took ardor from the liquor he had drunk.†   (source)
  • Leo seesawed between anger and ardor.†   (source)
  • It was plain to see that spring had spent itself, lavished its ardor on the myriads of flowers that were bursting everywhere into bloom, and now was being crushed out by the twofold onslaught of heat and plague.†   (source)
  • They looked shyly at his strange dark face, with all its passionate and naïve ardor, and they felt tenderness and love for his youth and all that was unknown to it.†   (source)
  • I had swept her with the ardor of a lover into the giddy swirl of dancers and while we hung in this unreal world, she suddenly remarked with a laugh: "One wouldn't know you.†   (source)
  • If only he had the gallantry and ardor of the Tarleton boys or even the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXVI She married Frank Kennedy two weeks later after a whirlwind courtship which she blushingly told him left her too breathless to oppose his ardor any longer.†   (source)
  • She looked at Frank so steadily, her eyes narrowing, that he became somewhat alarmed and she dropped her gaze swiftly, remembering Rhett's words: "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol…… They evoke no ardor in the male breast."†   (source)
  • Milly might have yielded to his importunity had his ardor left her any force.†   (source)
  • She had affected to look with some contempt upon the quality of his war ardor and patriotism.†   (source)
  • Natasha, with the ardor characteristic of all she did suddenly set to work too.†   (source)
  • "This is a great place; isn't it?" said Newman, with ardor.†   (source)
  • at this childlike unrestrained ardor: he was not surprised (what lover would have been?†   (source)
  • The lady lived; and with redoubled ardor I betook myself to the task of restoration.†   (source)
  • This in itself was enough to damp the ardor of my enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • The very nearness of the fire but cooled our ardor.†   (source)
  • Stern financial and social stress after the war cooled much of the previous humanitarian ardor.†   (source)
  • The young Frenchman greeted him with ardor, and assured him that he was a godsend.†   (source)
  • Heyward drew back, all his ardor to proceed seeming to vanish on the instant.†   (source)
  • The ardor which they display in small matters calms their zeal for momentous undertakings.†   (source)
  • "And is this all the reward," said he, "for my ardor?†   (source)
  • The death of the poor scholar imparted a furious ardor to that crowd.†   (source)
  • I loved him with all the ardor of a young girl's first love.†   (source)
  • They went, with ardor and some thoroughness, into the matters of streamline bodies, hill-climbing power, wire wheels, chrome steel, ignition systems, and body colors.†   (source)
  • I should have felt terrible fear at seeing Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardor of battle must have been upon me as well as the rest of them.†   (source)
  • He fell in love, as men are in the habit of doing, and pressed his suit with an earnestness and an ardor which left nothing to be desired.†   (source)
  • All of this, however, did not chill their ardor as much as might have been expected, because of the volubility of the agent.†   (source)
  • He redoubled his ardor.†   (source)
  • He was very ill, and it required all my ardor as an historian pledged to the truth to persuade him to live the incredible tragedy over again for my benefit.†   (source)
  • To eat his meager breakfast, water and saddle his horse, fill his canteen, were but the work of a few moments, and then he was on his way again, alert, cautious, not to be misled by his ardor.†   (source)
  • "She's not so inexperienced as she looks," he thought, and thereafter his respect and ardor were increased.†   (source)
  • From blind fear he went to the other extreme; he became reckless and indifferent, like all the rest of the men, who took but little thought of themselves in the ardor of their work.†   (source)
  • Some ardor of the air which was causing the veteran commands to move with glee—almost with song—had infected the new regiment.†   (source)
  • During the march the ardor which the youth had acquired when out of view of the field rapidly faded to nothing.†   (source)
  • The Rev. Dr. Drew, his rustic bang flopping with the intensity of his poetic and sociologic ardor, trumpeted: "During the untoward series of industrial dislocations which have—let us be courageous and admit it boldly—throttled the business life of our fair city these past days, there has been a great deal of loose talk about scientific prevention of scientific—SCIENTIFIC!†   (source)
  • —If such my flame, And for the sense and power intense I seek, and cannot find, a name; Then range with all my senses through creation, Craving the speech of inspiration, And call this ardor, so supernal, Endless, eternal and eternal,— Is that a devilish lying game?†   (source)
  • In her first ardor she flung away the books with a sort of triumph that she had risen above the need of them; and if they had been her own, she would have burned them, believing that she would never repent.†   (source)
  • "Now, Uncas!" cried the scout, drawing his long knife, while his quick eyes began to flash with ardor, "take the last of the screeching imps; of the other two we are sartain!"†   (source)
  • After the morning in the pillory, the neighbors of NotreDame thought they noticed that Quasimodo's ardor for ringing had grown cool.†   (source)
  • In the books on political economy—in Mill, for instance, whom he studied first with great ardor, hoping every minute to find an answer to the questions that were engrossing him—he found laws deduced from the condition of land culture in Europe; but he did not see why these laws, which did not apply in Russia, must be general.†   (source)
  • In truth, the ardor, the enthusiasm, and the imperiousness of my disposition, soon rendered me a marked character among my schoolmates, and by slow, but natural gradations, gave me an ascendancy over all not greatly older than myself;--over all with a single exception.†   (source)
  • His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,—which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction.†   (source)
  • When the three Hurons emerged from behind the palisades, and found themselves on the open lake, and under the necessity of advancing unprotected on the Ark, if they persevered in the original design, their ardor sensibly cooled.†   (source)
  • While John and Richard were placing the dressings on the wound, Elnathan was acutely eyeing the contents of Mohegan's basket, which Mr. Jones, in his physical ardor had transferred to the doctor, in order to hold himself one end of the bandages.†   (source)
  • If there was one pure, sunny spot for me, I believed it to be in Benjamin's heart, and in another's, whom I loved with all the ardor of a girl's first love.†   (source)
  • Laws cannot succeed in rekindling the ardor of an extinguished faith, but men may be interested in the fate of their country by the laws.†   (source)
  • From fire to oil was a natural transition for burned fingers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor.†   (source)
  • The sun was in its zenith, and the spot chosen for the scene of the duel was exposed to its full ardor.†   (source)
  • This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a degree unsurpassed in all this kingdom, and she loved him with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong.†   (source)
  • I firmly believe in the necessity of forms, which fix the human mind in the contemplation of abstract truths, and stimulate its ardor in the pursuit of them, whilst they invigorate its powers of retaining them steadfastly.†   (source)
  • Approaching the shrub, she threw open her arms, as with a passionate ardor, and drew its branches into an intimate embrace--so intimate that her features were hidden in its leafy bosom and her glistening ringlets all intermingled with the flowers.†   (source)
  • The scout looked earnestly into the beautiful face of Mabel, which had flushed with the ardor and novelty of her sensations, and it was not possible to mistake the intense admiration that betrayed itself in every lineament of his ingenuous countenance.†   (source)
  • 'O thou beautiful as Athor herself, my queen!' said the king, whose hundred and thirteen years did not lessen his ardor as a lover, 'Tell me, I pray, the ailment of which, alas! thou art so certainly perishing before my eyes.†   (source)
  • Skill follows ardor.†   (source)
  • Ivan used to declare afterwards that this was all due to the "ardor for good works" of Yefim Petrovitch, who was captivated by the idea that the boy's genius should be trained by a teacher of genius.†   (source)
  • But at length, as the labor drew nearer to its conclusion, there were admitted none into the turret; for the painter had grown wild with the ardor of his work, and turned his eyes from canvas merely, even to regard the countenance of his wife.†   (source)
  • Ah, sire, you recompense but badly this poor young man, who has come so far, and with so much ardor, to give your majesty useful information.†   (source)
  • Indeed, these periodic seasons were often an inconvenience to the whole household; for Dinah would contract such an immoderate attachment to her scoured tin, as to insist upon it that it shouldn't be used again for any possible purpose,—at least, till the ardor of the "clarin' up" period abated.†   (source)
  • Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was such an ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him.†   (source)
  • They say this, not at all suspecting that thousands of years ago that same law of necessity which with such ardor they are now trying to prove by physiology and comparative zoology was not merely acknowledged by all the religions and all the thinkers, but has never been denied.†   (source)
  • For days, weeks, nay months, Billy Kirby would toil with an ardor that evinced his native spirit, and with an effect that seemed magical, until, his chopping being ended, his stentorian lungs could be heard emitting sounds, as he called to his patient oxen, which rang through the hills like the cries of an alarm.†   (source)
  • Deerslayer stood at the end of the pallet, leaning on Killdeer, unharmed in person, all the fine martial ardor that had so lately glowed in his countenance having given place to the usual look of honesty and benevolence, qualities of which the expression was now softened by manly regret and pity.†   (source)
  • He hastened towards Cosette's happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as Cosette herself.†   (source)
  • The ardor of faction is redoubled; and all the artificial passions which the imagination can create in the bosom of a happy and peaceful land are agitated and brought to light.†   (source)
  • Villefort, being called on to prove the crime, was preparing his brief with the same ardor that he was accustomed to exercise when required to speak in criminal cases.†   (source)
  • Her efforts in this line, however, were brought to an abrupt close by an untoward accident, which quenched her ardor.†   (source)
  • In the excitement of my opium dreams (for I was habitually fettered in the shackles of the drug) I would call aloud upon her name, during the silence of the night, or among the sheltered recesses of the glens by day, as if, through the wild eagerness, the solemn passion, the consuming ardor of my longing for the departed, I could restore her to the pathway she had abandoned--ah, could it be forever?†   (source)
  • His breath was stopped with the lie on his lips, and the spirit might be said to have passed away in the very ardor of wickedness.†   (source)
  • But Rakitin, in his youthful ardor, made a slight blunder, of which the counsel for the defense at once adroitly took advantage.†   (source)
  • They may be taken by storm and for the moment converted, becoming part of the soul which enwraps them in the ardor of its movement.†   (source)
  • Excited by such appliances to vice, my constitutional temperament broke forth with redoubled ardor, and I spurned even the common restraints of decency in the mad infatuation of my revels.†   (source)
  • " 'twas a noble repulse!" exclaimed Heyward, in the heat of his youthful ardor; "the fame of it reached us early, in our southern army."†   (source)
  • Bat when young ardor is set brooding over the conception of a prompt deed, the deed itself seems to start forth with independent life, mastering ideal obstacles.†   (source)
  • Imagine her dismay, on stealing a glance of timid admiration at the poet whose lines suggested an ethereal being fed on 'spirit, fire, and dew', to behold him devouring his supper with an ardor which flushed his intellectual countenance.†   (source)
  • Its ardor was in part the result of that general discomfort which the sight of all uninvested capital produced in him; so fine an intelligence as Bellegarde's ought to be dedicated to high uses.†   (source)
  • Fleur-de-Lys loved him, he was her betrothed; she was alone with him; his former taste for her had re-awakened, not with all its freshness but with all its ardor; after all, there is no great harm in tasting one's wheat while it is still in the blade; I do not know whether these ideas passed through his mind, but one thing is certain, that Fleur-de-Lys was suddenly alarmed by the expression of his glance.†   (source)
  • The old count, knowing his son's ardor in the hunt, hurried so as not to be late, and the huntsmen had not yet reached their places when Count Ilya Rostov, cheerful, flushed, and with quivering cheeks, drove up with his black horses over the winter rye to the place reserved for him, where a wolf might come out.†   (source)
  • He had returned to his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him.†   (source)
  • For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.†   (source)
  • He laid his plan and calculated all his moves with the fervid deliberation of a chess-player in the days of his first ardor, and was amazed himself at his sudden genius as a tactician.†   (source)
  • [Footnote b: I do not mean to say that the small proprietor cultivates his land better, but he cultivates it with more ardor and care; so that he makes up by his labor for his want of skill.†   (source)
  • When I think of you my heart beats fast, the blood burns in my veins, and I can hardly breathe; but I solemnly promise you to restrain all this ardor, this fervor and intensity of feeling, until you yourself shall require me to render them available in serving or assisting you.†   (source)
  • Her standard of right was so high, so all-embracing, so minute, and making so few concessions to human frailty, that, though she strove with heroic ardor to reach it, she never actually did so, and of course was burdened with a constant and often harassing sense of deficiency;—this gave a severe and somewhat gloomy cast to her religious character.†   (source)
  • "Every creatur' has its gifts, Mabel, and men have theirs," answered the guide, looking stealthily at his beautiful companion, whose cheeks had flushed and eyes brightened under the ardor of feelings excited by the novelty of her striking situation; "and all must obey them.†   (source)
  • His narratives are distinguished by the same ardor and religious zeal which led to the foundation of the colonies of New England.†   (source)
  • After the Emperor had left Moscow, life flowed on there in its usual course, and its course was so very usual that it was difficult to remember the recent days of patriotic elation and ardor, hard to believe that Russia was really in danger and that the members of the English Club were also sons of the Fatherland ready to sacrifice everything for it.†   (source)
  • Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse.†   (source)
  • "With me," he went on, "you will be as safe—as safe"—and even in his ardor he hesitated a moment for a comparison—"as safe," he said, with a kind of simple solemnity, "as in your father's arms."†   (source)
  • "Though not at hand, fortunately for us," said Montcalm, without waiting, in his ardor, for the interpreter.†   (source)
  • Garrison or tent, it all passes for part of the same campaign, you know, Pathfinder; and then my duty keeps me much within sight of the storehouses, greatly contrary to my inclinations, as ye may well suppose, having yourself the ardor of battle in your temperament.†   (source)
  • So it has been since the days of Hecuba, and of Hector, Tamer of horses; inside the gates, the women with streaming hair and uplifted hands offering prayers, watching the world's combat from afar, filling their long, empty days with memories and fears; outside, the men, in fierce struggle with things divine and human, quenching memory in the stronger light of purpose, losing the sense of dread and even of wounds in the hurrying ardor of action.†   (source)
  • When I contemplate the ardor with which the Anglo-Americans prosecute commercial enterprise, the advantages which befriend them, and the success of their undertakings, I cannot refrain from believing that they will one day become the first maritime power of the globe.†   (source)
  • It is adopted by statesmen and political philosophers; it is eagerly laid hold of by the multitude; those who govern and those who are governed agree to pursue it with equal ardor: it is the foremost notion of their minds, it seems inborn.†   (source)
  • Dorothea's face had become animated, and as it beamed on Rosamond very close to her, she felt something like bashful timidity before a superior, in the presence of this self-forgetful ardor.†   (source)
  • It is strange to see with what feverish ardor the Americans pursue their own welfare; and to watch the vague dread that constantly torments them lest they should not have chosen the shortest path which may lead to it.†   (source)
  • Had the din of battle been ringing in his ears, his martial ardor might have endured to the end; but there, in the silence of that nearly untenanted blockhouse, with no sound to enliven him, no appeal to keep alive factitious sentiment, no hope of victory to impel, things began to appear in their true colors, and this state of being to be estimated at its just value.†   (source)
  • "By the Lord, there is a drove of them!" exclaimed the scout, whose eyes began to glisten with the ardor of his usual occupation; "if they come within range of a bullet I will drop one, though the whole Six Nations should be lurking within sound!†   (source)
  • As soon as the choice is determined, this ardor is dispelled; and as a calmer season returns, the current of the State, which had nearly broken its banks, sinks to its usual level: *a but who can refrain from astonishment at the causes of the storm.†   (source)
  • Newman was, according to the French phrase, only abounding in her own sense, but his temperate raptures exerted a singular effect upon the ardor which she herself had so freely manifested a few months before.†   (source)
  • Firmly convinced as he was of the truths revealed to him by his benefactor, and happy as he had been in perfecting his inner man, to which he had devoted himself with such ardor—all the zest of such a life vanished after the engagement of Andrew and Natasha and the death of Joseph Alexeevich, the news of which reached him almost at the same time.†   (source)
  • Maggie, all this time, moved about with a quiescence and even torpor of manner, so contrasted with her usual fitful brightness and ardor, that Lucy would have had to seek some other cause for such a change, if she had not been convinced that the position in which Maggie stood between Philip and her brother, and the prospect of her self-imposed wearisome banishment, were quite enough to account for a large amount of depression.†   (source)
  • I have known zealous Christians who constantly forgot themselves, to work with greater ardor for the happiness of their fellow-men; and I have heard them declare that all they did was only to earn the blessings of a future state.†   (source)
  • But the scout, after suffering the ardor of the lover to expend itself a little, found means to convince him of the folly of precipitation, in a manner that would require their coolest judgment and utmost fortitude.†   (source)
  • As the majority is the only power which it is important to court, all its projects are taken up with the greatest ardor, but no sooner is its attention distracted than all this ardor ceases; whilst in the free States of Europe the administration is at once independent and secure, so that the projects of the legislature are put into execution, although its immediate attention may be directed to other objects.†   (source)
  • With all the hurry of an imagination that could never rest in the present, she sat in the deepening twilight forming plans of self-humiliation and entire devotedness; and in the ardor of first discovery, renunciation seemed to her the entrance into that satisfaction which she had so long been craving in vain.†   (source)
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