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  • I shake my head fervently.†   (source)
  • Robinson Crusoe, having made it back to England after years of isolation, shortly thereafter set sail for that very same island from which he had so fervently prayed for deliverance.†   (source)
  • There was a quality to her that is hard to describe, a fervency, a heat that went to your head.†   (source)
  • She had hoped fervently that her long-held desire for a second child would finally be realized.†   (source)
  • One night, I fell asleep in the necessary and woke with a fervent prayer of thanks that I had not fallen in.†   (source)
  • Hence it has been a time of fervent religion.†   (source)
  • He fervently hoped she'd thought of all the details about the rally.†   (source)
  • "I'm told a lot of people pray fervently night after night that I'll invite them to my Christmas parties."†   (source)
  • It had been our fervent hope that somehow the Nazis would come to their senses and the persecution would stop.†   (source)
  • I read the passage Owen had underlined most fervently in his copy of St. Thomas Aquinas—"Demonstration of God's Existence from Motion."†   (source)
  • She was a fervent Catholic with a French accent.†   (source)
  • But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before.†   (source)
  • I'm pleasing myself!" he cried fervently, and I saw tears trembling in his eyes.†   (source)
  • I once fervently believed in Mao and the Chinese Communist Party.†   (source)
  • "You and your brother have everything, Prince Maven," I whisper in a voice so fervent it might be a prayer.†   (source)
  • It is our fervent hope that each of you will find a path out of the depravity of your early lives, and with firm guidance and hard work transform into respectable citizens who can pull your weight in society.†   (source)
  • And as fervently as the Baudelaire orphans wished their circumstances were different, I wish that I could somehow change the circumstances of this story for you.†   (source)
  • "Oh, everything he has told you is true!" answered Kit fervently.†   (source)
  • I mean, I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.†   (source)
  • "I hate riding," Sansa said fervently.†   (source)
  • I want to scream, run, smash my way out of it but I'm frozen, helpless to do anything but fervently hope I'll die before I reach the shadowy figures awaiting me above.†   (source)
  • The girl was fidgeting with the ends, fervently winding and unwinding them around her fingers.†   (source)
  • I slid to the floor in my nightgown and began by saying my prayers, very fervently.†   (source)
  • "Thank God," said Boris fervently, falling to the concrete to prostrate himself before the Lord.†   (source)
  • Unless, as he fervently hoped, the Americans saw sense and joined with the Rihrer to defeat the barbaric Russians.†   (source)
  • As usual, he took the point position himself, determined to be the first into the fray if, as he fervently hoped, a fray developed.†   (source)
  • I wished fervently that I'd never joined up, that I were a free man.†   (source)
  • He fervently thanked all the gods, known and unknown.†   (source)
  • My panic zoomed into high-level terror and I frantically pounded on the door with all my might, screaming in a high-pitched, fervent squawk, "BILLLLYYYYYYYY!"†   (source)
  • And some nice pink papier hygiénique!" she added fervently, and we both laughed at that pipe dream.†   (source)
  • My voice was fervent with gratitude.†   (source)
  • I wished fervently this was not the case.†   (source)
  • Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away ….†   (source)
  • Prendergast read widely and possessed a good grasp of the grip-car wrecks, murders, and City Hall machinations covered so fervently by the city's newspapers.†   (source)
  • Normally we wouldn't move so quickly, and so, well, transparently, but given the Circle's fervent belief in Demoxie, and our confidence that it will be adopted quickly and globally, we couldn't see any reason to delay."†   (source)
  • In heaven, I fervently believed, everybody had footwarmers.†   (source)
  • But itis my fervent hope that in five or ten years, this kind of thing won't even be an issue.†   (source)
  • Some of the demonstration's most fervent supporters were long-haired, working-class fans of American heavy metal music, known in Plauen as die Heavies, who rode their motorcycles through town distributing antigovernment pamphlets.†   (source)
  • "Aye, sair, so she was," Colter agreed fervently.†   (source)
  • Somebody in another cell let out a soulified grito with the funk of burnt burritos, debris-strewn alleys and fervent love-making thrown into the mix.†   (source)
  • Even Chacko—who knew that the fervent, high-pitched speeches about Rights of Untouchables ("Caste is Class, comrades") delivered by Comrade Pillai during the Marxist Party siege of Paradise Pickles were pharisaic—never learned the whole story.†   (source)
  • Wish we knew some magic now, Sophie said fervently.†   (source)
  • At this, as if my answer had opened up new prospects of safety, and that safety depended on me, he grasped my hand and said fervently, 'Well, if we really are still alive, you can order anything you like for supper here on Saturday, at my expense, and-'†   (source)
  • I prayed silently and fervently, God, help me know what to do.†   (source)
  • Women were amongst the most fervent converts to Christianity.†   (source)
  • Fervently, for a year she had prayed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sugi fervently hopes to see his beloved son again in this lifetime, and asks therefore that you please notify him immediately if you receive word from your sister.†   (source)
  • Of these, two pick up and deposit mail-an operation that, as the person in charge of it fervently explains, has its tricky side.†   (source)
  • I had only one wish, but I fervently wanted to believe in the miracles of Meshed.†   (source)
  • Behind the reverend's mask of severity was a gentle, broadminded individual who believed fervently in the importance of educating young African men.†   (source)
  • When Nesci Brothers men start moving Benzini Brothers animals and equipment into their tents and onto their train, even the most fervently optimistic among us can no longer deny the obvious.†   (source)
  • Must be nice to believe so fervently in what the Empire spoon-feeds us.†   (source)
  • The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.†   (source)
  • I wished fervently that I were there instead.†   (source)
  • As sex dreams go, there wasn't much sex, just a collage of very hot kisses, and Justin Proud's hands, exploring every inch of my body, at my fervent invitation.†   (source)
  • It was a life he fervently wished he had never left.†   (source)
  • He was talking about the new model cars, just out, this one's got the horsepower, that one's got the handling, and he was earnest and fervent.†   (source)
  • Although I prayed fervently for some relief, going to church didn't help take my mind off anything.†   (source)
  • Now six months into his second platoon's workup, with war being waged on two fronts, Adam was virtually guaranteed deployment to a combat zone of a war he fervently believed in.†   (source)
  • He stroked his hennaed beard and chanted a fervent plea for Mortenson's wellbeing that was drowned by the blast of the Bedford's horn.†   (source)
  • Like Jack, Mike absorbed his mother's fervent Catholic faith.†   (source)
  • I hope fervently it will not affect the lives of the little ones like Stephen and Nomi.†   (source)
  • And then, pressing my hand fervently, the liquor so dulling his senses that he never felt the coldness of it, he told me his name was Morgan and he needed me desperately, more than he'd ever needed anyone in his life.†   (source)
  • Since he was a child, the boy had been making surreptitious journeys into town to borrow books, read the newspapers, and converse with the local schoolteacher, a fervent Communist who years later would be shot dead by a bullet between the eyes.†   (source)
  • With fervent, excited enthusiasm, Major Danby pressed a thick wad of Italian currency upon Yossarian and clasped his hand in both his own, as much to still his own trembling fingers as to give encouragement to Yossarian.†   (source)
  • For Barbara, who, like so many, came to fervent Pentecostalism from a life broken by poverty and neglect, the church provided both moral orderliness and an absolution for past failures that finally allowed her peace about all that had gone wrong over the years.†   (source)
  • My grandmother had been so fervently Catholic that she was on the committee of women who would come to scrub down the church, sometimes taking me along.†   (source)
  • "I hope so, too," he said fervently.†   (source)
  • The aim, the fervent desire, of the other Anaander, I guessed.†   (source)
  • "We have consulted our wishes rather than our reason in the indulgence of an idea of accommodation," Nathanael Greene wrote in another fervent letter to Samuel Ward in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • She fervently wished that Blomkvist had been kind enough to smuggle in her PowerBook with a real keyboard and a seventeen-inch screen instead of only the hand-held.†   (source)
  • When the nominated day arrived at last, we gathered in the Delf's stippled sunshine for what we fervently hoped wouldbe the last time.†   (source)
  • That her life was ruined was a simple fact, only reinforced by the way those around her sought so fervently to show it wasn't.†   (source)
  • Someone popped a bottle of champagne and tears streamed down the faces of the nuns, who'd prayed fervently for such a miracle.†   (source)
  • Old Joshua's stamp remained upon us--Sunday school and Sunday service morning and evening, and on Wednesday night prayer meeting where the more fervent would stand to witness to the Lord's mercies of the preceding week and all the sick and straying would be held up in prayer before the Throne of Grace.†   (source)
  • He made a swift, fervent grab at the photograph and began planting wet, sorrowful kisses all over Theresa's dark, shining face.†   (source)
  • He courted me quite fervently over Christmas and meant to marry me, but I refused him.†   (source)
  • Though few in number, abolitionists were well organized, vocal, passionate, and possessed by a fervent, religious zeal for their cause.†   (source)
  • Mayor De Roos himself was making a point of half-complimenting Kwang in the media whenever he could, just the week before calling him "a fervent voice in the wide chorus that is New York."†   (source)
  • From the television set comes the fervent announcement: "Watch the Pete Pepper Show!†   (source)
  • Even if the victory over Ten-Towns was achieved, Beorg knew that he would eventually have to deal with his rival, who would not easily abandon the fervent bloodlust that had put him in power.†   (source)
  • My most fervent hope is that he'll succeed, that the kill will take place.†   (source)
  • I kissed her fervently, promising her peace, happiness, safety, but when I said, 'Can I tell poor Richard that it was a mistake?†   (source)
  • "Good morning, Bloomberg dear!" she said, and kissed him fervently between the eyes.†   (source)
  • I found myself fervently wishing I were a pregnant Eskimo.†   (source)
  • He became the most fervent sort of convert.†   (source)
  • At this point Sophie had, as usual after one of Wanda's fervent come-ons, turned away, saying nothing.†   (source)
  • I could see her fervent face: there was no doubt as to what she was thinking.†   (source)
  • In the first place I knew the countryside, and in the second I had friends and relatives by marriage, and such a situation makes objectivity practically impossible, for I know no place where hospitality is practiced so fervently as in Texas.†   (source)
  • BROWN You will find our people are fervent in their belief.†   (source)
  • MORE (Fervently) Oh, am I not though …… (Calmly) If the King takes this matter any further, with me or with the Church, it will be very bad, if I even appear to have been in the pay of the Church.†   (source)
  • We fervently hope to be rescued, none more so than I. I will even go so far as to say that I think we will be rescued …. eventually.†   (source)
  • His fervent imagination would cook up the wildest tall-story and he would deliver it with straight-faced sincerity.†   (source)
  • They looked with fervent anticipation, and the dead city lay dead for them alone, drowsing in a hot silence of summer made on Mars by a Martian weatherman.†   (source)
  • a fervent admirer
  • I fervently hoped Becky would chop off their heads and strip off their skins.†   (source)
  • The Tuesday circle fervently longs to have Dr. Jordan address it.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, you are, Hermione," agreed Harry fervently.†   (source)
  • It must not come to war, Catelyn thought fervently.†   (source)
  • She nods, she understands: she will do anything, she tells him fervently.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah,' said Harry fervently, looking over at the Ravenclaw table.†   (source)
  • This is the weirdest thing we've ever done," Harry said fervently.†   (source)
  • I believe she will do it; I hope and pray that she does, he added fervently.†   (source)
  • Ardor for this mission filled me, and I fervently pledged myself to him.†   (source)
  • "Well, with any luck, the Ministry will catch him!" said Hermione fervently.†   (source)
  • "Horrible temper," said Dot, nodding fervently.†   (source)
  • "Harry — thanks," George muttered, while Fred nodded fervently at his side.†   (source)
  • "Dobby was weirder," said Harry fervently.†   (source)
  • God forbid, Miguel, because then I'd have to do the same to you," Alba answered fervently.†   (source)
  • No, what surprised me was how fervently he'd fallen for it—hook, line, and sinker.†   (source)
  • Please, she prayed fervently, make him say it, make him say it.†   (source)
  • As I stalk past the gate guards, I fervently hope not to run into my mother.†   (source)
  • So fervently did he desire this that he offered all he had, that his prayer might be answered.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Tanya," Edward said fervently.†   (source)
  • As Abigail fervently wished, she and John were never to see England or Europe again.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah, it would,' said Harry fervently.†   (source)
  • "Poor bloke," said Ron fervently.†   (source)
  • "Good," said Harry fervently.†   (source)
  • I prayed silently and fervently that Alice wouldn't follow, and that Charlie wouldn't happen to see me…… It was obvious when we had reached the safe zone.†   (source)
  • As the helicopter droned toward Lukla, I suspected that each of my teammates hoped as fervently as I that Hall had been careful to weed out clients of dubious ability, and would have the means to protect each of us from one another's shortcomings.†   (source)
  • That's good,' said Ron fervently.†   (source)
  • Rosa admitted that there could not be much food, to which Max fervently asked her to bring only scraps, and only when they were not wanted by anyone else.†   (source)
  • Honestly, if the Sorting Hat had tried to put me in Slytherin, I'd've got the train straight back home …… Hermione nodded fervently, but Harry didn't say anything.†   (source)
  • She shook her head, fervently.†   (source)
  • Artemis hoped fervently that someone on the fairy team had the wit to spot the 'blunder' he'd made during the negotiation session.†   (source)
  • "Thank you," he breathed fervently.†   (source)
  • 'It will for me,' she said fervently.†   (source)
  • He'd believed as fervently in the power of breeding as she believed in training—that there was nothing in a dog's character that couldn't be adapted to useful work.†   (source)
  • In her mind, she held the view of the dead horse, the ragamuffins and the seepy-eyed girl alongside her memories of seeing the shirtwaist strikers calling fervently for justice, seeing her dozens of dresses strewn across the floor the day she'd offered one to Bella, and seeing an image of herself, lying in bed.†   (source)
  • Rector Wiggin and Barb Wiggin were not in attendance; they had so fervently sought to hold Owen's service in Christ Church, no doubt they were miffed that they'd been rejected.†   (source)
  • He was exhausted and did not dwell upon it-though his ears turned red at times, and he fervently hoped that Saphira did not know what he was thinking.†   (source)
  • "I have to," Jon said fervently.†   (source)
  • The body of the unfortunate Miss Evelyn-Hyde had been exhumed, of course, and as Geoffrey Alliburton drew Mary to a halt in front of the gate leading into Little Dunthorpe's C of E churchyard, Mrs. Ramage found herself wishing fervently that she had not listened to the tales of the exhumation.†   (source)
  • Despite his fear of nuns, Owen could not resist the target that the holy goalie presented; I was a better shot, but Owen threw his chestnuts more fervently.†   (source)
  • At every House table, Harry could see people either gazing raptly at Dumbledore, or else whispering fervently to their neighbors.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," I said fervently.†   (source)
  • She would have him no other way than he was; she believed fervently in what he was doing, encouraged him in the role, and wished no other for him; she wanted him to be where he was doing his utmost for the country.†   (source)
  • A pious man who worships the Seven so fervently that he eats a meal for each of them whenever he sits to table.†   (source)
  • I remember that my heart started beating hard in my chest, and I prayed fervently that it had simply been a dream.†   (source)
  • As he leaned over the human and whispered in her ear, Fords wished fervently that the soul inside could hear him now.†   (source)
  • Considering how pressed for time the Varden were, Eragon fervently hoped that the voting would not require more than one round, and if it did, that the dwarves would not insist upon taking a recess of more than a few hours.†   (source)
  • She'd given him the cold shoulder for days, forced him to sleep in the guest room for weeks, and had prayed fervently to God.†   (source)
  • Every one of her advisors had argued fervently against it, from Reznak and the Shavepate to Ser Barristan, but Daenerys would not be moved.†   (source)
  • There had been indications that Mary's ever-increasing presence was disturbing to Sunny, as she had seemed to be practicing more fervently in the preceding weeks, particularly when Mary was over at the house.†   (source)
  • I could not maintain my footing, and therefore slowly sank to my knees, my husband keeping us joined and fervently pursuing his climax, to where, in a dizzying moment of unbridled sensation I tried to call out to him, only to hear my voice moan through indistinguishable syllables that he clearly took as a signal.†   (source)
  • Lord Rawdon, who was with General Clinton in the lead boat, later wrote that the Hessians, unaccustomed to "this water business" and fearful of being fired on when packed so closely, began singing hymns, while the redcoats responded in their own fashion, "by damning themselves and the enemy indiscriminately with wonderful fervency."†   (source)
  • Mr. Miller shakes his head fervently.†   (source)
  • I can only imagine the thoughts that must have coursed through my father's mind as he heard these words: my father, age twenty-one, two years out of his adolescence, who had never wished more fervently for anything than he wished for the day he could return to Wisconsin, marry, start a family, and open his funeral home—the quiet dream that had sustained him through the long months in the Pacific, who indeed "gave himself wholly to the United States of America."†   (source)
  • I did manage to fight my way forward to the ha ram and as I touched the tomb, I prayed fervently that Allah would grant me only one wish that he would allow Mahtob and me to return safely to America in time to see Dad before he died.†   (source)
  • Such parents may believe—as fervently as the governor of Illinois believed—that every children's book is a talisman that leads to unfettered intelligence.†   (source)
  • He says here that Dov Baer used to crack vulgar jokes to make his people happy, and that he used to encourage his followers to drink alcohol, so they would pray fervently.†   (source)
  • As the road worsened, the laminated 3D card depicting the great black-shrouded cube, the Kaaba of Mecca, that hung from the Toyota's rearview mirror, repeatedly smacked the windshield with the fervency of prayer.†   (source)
  • "No problem," I promised fervently.†   (source)
  • Billy nodded fervently.†   (source)
  • They remained silent as she wavered between sleep, nausea, anxiety, and the pain that was beginning to grip her womb, and he fervently wished that this night would never end.†   (source)
  • "I fervently hope so," Edward said.†   (source)
  • Days later, in Paris, where he had only just learned of Adams's election, Jefferson wrote warmly, "No man on earth pays more cordial homage to your worth or wishes more fervently your happiness.†   (source)
  • It was his political sense that Congress and the patriots of New York expected every effort to be made to hold the city, and that anything less would have devastating political effect on the people at large and thus on the American cause, which Washington fervently hoped would soon become the cause of American independence.†   (source)
  • I'm suddenly, fervently grateful that I was too exhausted from combat training to strip before sleeping.†   (source)
  • Asha had never shared her uncle Aeron's faith in the Drowned God, but that night she prayed as fervently to He Who Dwells Beneath the Waves as ever the Damphair had.†   (source)
  • I'd fervently wished that Christian would order the braised leg of lamb or the steak frites so that I could beg a taste, but when I explained I wasn't all that hungry (a colossal lie), he said an appetizer was all he really wanted, too.†   (source)
  • I wished fervently that I might be good at this projecting thing, too, like I was somehow mysteriously good at all the other aspects of being a vampire.†   (source)
  • Everyone, of course, fervently agreed.†   (source)
  • His lips moved for a little without sound, or she cried too fervently, and unheard he might have been telling his whole life, and then he said, "God forgive Solomon for sins great and small.†   (source)
  • Since the kids believed as fervently in ghosts or witches as I believed in Chrysler motors, I imagined that Halloween was a much more macabre and meaningful night to them than it was to me.†   (source)
  • (Continuing fervently, the spirit is upon him) I say that these Bible-haters, these "Evil-utionists," are brewers of poison And the legislature of this sovereign state has had the wisdom to demand that the peddlers of poison—in bottles or in books—clearly label the products they attempt to sell!†   (source)
  • "Under His Eye," I say, trying to sound fervent.†   (source)
  • "It means you're a fervent girl," Rahel said.†   (source)
  • Vittoria framed him with a fervent stare.†   (source)
  • The woman's fervent gaze never wavered as she set down the photo and approached the screened door.†   (source)
  • All he felt now was a fervent desire for this day to end.†   (source)
  • I knew that fervent prayer was the only lasting answer.†   (source)
  • With a thousand fervent warriors behind him, Wulfgar approached the unsuspecting monsters.†   (source)
  • Qyburn's words were terse and to the point, Cersei's fevered and fervent.†   (source)
  • His voice controlled the audience by the power and conviction of his fervent, undistilled belief.†   (source)
  • I could see he wanted to get out, maybe the crowd was getting too fervent.†   (source)
  • If his feelings are as fervent as hers, the new soul will probably be amenable.†   (source)
  • The last words were fervent, apologizing for more than waking me.†   (source)
  • The word was tense, fervent, like he was on the edge of something vital.†   (source)
  • "Your god can keep his grace," said Lord Stannis, who ' did not share his wife's fervent new faith.†   (source)
  • It is my fervent hope to see you all by month's end.†   (source)
  • "For keeping Bella alive," Edward clarified, his voice rough and fervent.†   (source)
  • Edward snarled, a very low but fervent sound.†   (source)
  • True, he'd attracted a couple of obsessives who'd thought he could walk on water, and who'd followed him around and sent him slushy, fervent e-mails and threatened to slit their wrists on his behalf.†   (source)
  • He gave Harry's broom a look of fervent admiration, then said, "Okay, everyone, let's go — " And at long last, Harry mounted his Firebolt, and kicked off from the ground.†   (source)
  • These people were something Germanic and sectarian, crossbred with seventh-generation Puritans — an industrious but fervent mix that produced, in addition to the usual collection of virtuous, lumpen farmers, three circuit riders, two inept land speculators, and one petty embezzler — chancers with a visionary streak and one eye on the horizon.†   (source)
  • After a lifetime of devotion, seventy-nine years, Mortati knew these events should ignite in him a pious exuberance …. a fervent and living faith.†   (source)
  • ON THE NIGHT OF HER EIGHTH BIRTHDAY, AFTER ICE-CREAM SANDWICHES and a Sara Lee cake her mother brought home from the Mini-Mart, after making a fervent wish, eyes squeezed shut as she blew out the tiny pink-striped birthday candles (for a bicycle, she remembers, pink with white and pink streamers like the one the girl across the street got for her birthday several months earlier), Molly sat on the couch waiting for her dad to come home.†   (source)
  • Nothing the revered Dr. Bulkeley could say or do could be wrong in his pupil's eyes, even the fervent defense of the King's policies which went against all John's upbringing.†   (source)
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