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  • But once alone, having torn through the first fifty pages of Herr Flammenhescher's little monograph, Mikhail would leap to his feet and start pacing from corner to corner in order to voice his fervid agreement or furious dissent with the author's thesis, his style, or his use of punctuation.†  (source)
  • A week after that, a national tabloid offered a fervid synopsis of what had happened, headed: TRAGIC BATTLE IN MAINE AS MOM BATTLES KILLER SAINT BERNARD.†  (source)
  • The king's men were as earthy and impious as any other soldiers, but the queen's men were fervid in their devotion to Melisandre of Asshai and her Lord of Light.†  (source)
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  • Thus Architecture died in the land of the free and the home of the brave—in a land declaring its fervid democracy, its inventiveness, its resourcefulness, its unique daring, enterprise and progress.†  (source)
  • I'd like to have a wife like that Bo," declared Roy, fervidly.†  (source)
    fervidly = intensely or passionately
  • He spoke with rage and honeyed tones in equal amount, but always with a fervid conviction that kept his audience entranced.†  (source)
  • [fervidly] Well, I want to know what it is†  (source)
  • James Blaine, when his tears were dry, was to write of the Sumner eulogy that "it was a mark of positive genius in a Southern representative to pronounce a fervid and discriminating eulogy upon Mr. Sumner, and skillfully interweave with it a defense of that which Mr. Sumner, like John Wesley, believed to be the sum of all villainies " Southerners to whom Charles Sumner symbolized the worst of the prewar Abolitionist movement and the postwar reconstruction felt betrayed.†  (source)
  • "Damn her," he fervidly said.†  (source)
  • Blundering, but fervid, I see myself buzzing round flowers, humming down scarlet cups, making blue funnels resound with my prodigious booming.†  (source)
  • The grateful Humphrey responded fervidly— "Thanks, O most noble master, this princely lavishness doth far surpass my most distempered dreams of fortune.†  (source)
  • Aunt Bertha and David's father, the former fervid, the latter stony, crossed snubbing glances.†  (source)
  • The sun struck the soldiers fervidly on helm and shield; but they kept their ranks indifferent alike to its dazzle and to the mouthings of the rabble.†  (source)
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