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  • I believe firmly in the Republic and I have faith. I believe in it with fervor as those who have religious faith believe in the mysteries.   (source)
  • (With increasing fervor) and sleeping and waking up!— (She flings her arms wide in an ecstasy of realization) Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anyone to realize you!   (source)
    fervor = intensity of feeling
  • I was astonished, too, at the vast extent of his reading; and, above all, I felt my soul enkindled within me by the wild fervor, and the vivid freshness of his imagination.   (source)
    fervor = intense feelings
  • shutting his eyes, broke forth with involuntary fervor into a psalm tune.   (source)
    fervor = intense emotion
  • Now I'm older, I sometimes wonder if Dad's fervor had more to do with his own mother than with doctrine.†   (source)
  • The first night he ignored their barks and rolled over and covered his head with his pillow, but the second night he detected a kind of fervor in their tone that drew him fully awake.†   (source)
  • My father's devotion to Denny's restaurants approached religious fervor.†   (source)
  • With their companion displaying such revolutionary fervor, they had to display even more, or at least the same amount.†   (source)
  • But when she tucked her hair behind her ears, he realized that her fervor shouldn't have come as a surprise.†   (source)
  • When the first anniversary of Halliday's death arrived, the fervor surrounding the contest began to die down.†   (source)
  • With what fervor do they relish bringing their sexual misconduct to light!†   (source)
  • The classrooms buzzed with revolutionary fervor.†   (source)
  • That his victim could easily have been her increased Briony's outrage and fervor.†   (source)
  • He's rehearsed his speech, but the fervor Cal has can't be faked.†   (source)
  • As the Lord is my witness, said Janine with a show of fervor.†   (source)
  • The mountain clans cared nothing for the enmities of the great houses; they would slaughter Stark and Lannister with equal fervor, as they slaughtered each other.†   (source)
  • The mayor scratched at the mustard stain on his cuff "General Howe delayed the invasion, hoping the revolutionary fervor would die down.†   (source)
  • And as an ongoing prospect, after Amsterdam, which was really my Damascus, the way station and apogee of my Conversion as I guess you'd call it, I continue to be immensely moved by the impermanence of hotels: not in any mundane Travel-and-Leisure way but with a fervor bordering on the transcendent.†   (source)
  • He begins to search again now with even more fervor.†   (source)
  • My fervor led me to a scholar, Jeod, who claimed to have discovered a book that showed a secret passageway into Galbatorix's castle.†   (source)
  • But in its day the City of Poets was fair indeed, a bit of Socrates's Athens with the intellectual excitement of Renaissance Venice, the artistic fervor of Paris in the days of the Impressionists, the true democracy of the first decade of Orbit City, and the unlimited future of Tau Ceti Center.†   (source)
  • If anything, he thought, they needed to pray more often, and with great fervor.†   (source)
  • Despite my fervor to rush into the woods and save my children, I had to proceed cautiously.†   (source)
  • It was a time of intense national. ism and patriotic fervor.†   (source)
  • Kroc believed completely in whatever he sold and pitched McDonald's franchises with an almost religious fervor.†   (source)
  • They weren't even thoughts that fit with her old socialist fervor.†   (source)
  • His mother, who had urged him with so much fervor to enjoy his torment, became concerned for his health.†   (source)
  • Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.†   (source)
  • She stared at me for a long moment and, slowly, the fervor in her eyes dimmed.†   (source)
  • Her tone took on an old-time religious fervor.†   (source)
  • As religion and science could now relate more freely to each other, the way was open both to new scientific methods and a new religious fervor.†   (source)
  • Word got back that guerrillas had planted the bomb because the pharmacy represented "crumbs for the poor," a palliative designed to curb the growth of revolutionary fervor.†   (source)
  • Inigo brought it to his lips and with all the fervor in his great Spanish heart kissed the metal….†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the game generated a treasure-hunt excitement, and presently he, too, succumbed to the fun, the fervor of this quest for refundable empties.†   (source)
  • His hammer is clenched in his hand like a weapon, his hard-angled face lit with tightly controlled fervor.†   (source)
  • Consumed by this vision, she had applied, in a great rush of fervor and excitement, to become a medical missionary.†   (source)
  • Even President Roosevelt was swept up in the fervor.†   (source)
  • Pippa buries her face in her Bible and reads along with renewed fervor.†   (source)
  • Abdul led the search with fervor, heaving bags of concrete aside until he found the spot where they'd slipped to the bottom.†   (source)
  • Now, struck with this sudden fervor, I found mud tracks in my closet, spilled mascara in my cosmetic drawer, one mismatched shoe-one!†   (source)
  • His eyes shine with the fervor of a religious zealot, the look of a street-corner crazy preacher, except this crazy holds the fate of the world in his hands.†   (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)
  • I can almost see the word, interrobang and all, floating up from my lips in unspoken fervor, because he's the only person I know who can appear seriously put out with no expression at all on his face.†   (source)
  • My brother was to be a great religious leader, to return the country to its former fervor, to turn the tide against atheism and the Revolution.†   (source)
  • He was just about to forbid him to set foot on the property when Clara convinced him that this was hardly the time to place his political enmities before the peasants' Christian fervor.†   (source)
  • Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.†   (source)
  • Her wimple, cinched at the chin, imprisoned her features in its oval, but no cloth could restrain the fervor in that face, or conceal the hurt and confusion.†   (source)
  • But it could take a week for a busy doctor to call me back, and my route home from the prison skirted the grounds of the Concord hospital, and I was still buzzing with righteous legal fervor.†   (source)
  • We celebrate our passing with the same fervor that you showed us after your own.†   (source)
  • I remembered the legend of how he had come to the college, a barefoot boy who in his fervor for education had trudged with his bundle of ragged clothing across two states.†   (source)
  • The patriotic fervor that had sent thousands rushing to the scene in late April and May was hardly evident any longer.†   (source)
  • Ever since David's power became apparent, the scholars sought to analyze him with the same fervor with which they studied Bram's papers.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, he thought, there was this boy's mother, who had trembled with protective concern over his groping steps, while teaching him to walk, who had measured his baby formulas with a jeweler's caution, who had obeyed with a zealot's fervor the latest words of science on his diet and hygiene, protecting his unhardened body from germs-then had sent him to be turned into a tortured neurotic by the men who taught him that he had no mind and must never attempt to think.†   (source)
  • His colleagues on the faculty were mostly conservative but their conservatism possessed no fervor.†   (source)
  • She cupped my cheek and she kissed me, deeply, with an instant fervor.†   (source)
  • For them nothing seemed quite as real as the trenches, so they didn't throw themselves into the traditional occupations with much fervor.†   (source)
  • He returned the compliment with equal fervor.†   (source)
  • For all its Islamic fervor, Osama bin Laden's creation was a highly bureaucratic enterprise.†   (source)
  • The nerve endings and veins and arteries carefully attaching his head to his body were firing and pulsating and pumping with a renewed sense of opportunity and fervor.†   (source)
  • Although I saw exactly what she meant, I was surprised at the fervor of her hostility and I wondered—even as I climbed the steps to take her out on our picnic—if it might not be due only to some irreconcilable discord left over from that stern religion which I knew she had abandoned.†   (source)
  • Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even.†   (source)
  • Her prayers, when she remembered to say them, were usually perfunctory but sometimes when she had done something wrong or heard music or lost something, or sometimes for no reason at all, she would be moved to fervor and would think of Christ on the long journey to Calvary, crushed three times under the rough cross.†   (source)
  • Fiedler paused, and looked around the room, his eyes suddenly alight with fervor.†   (source)
  • Those who controlled appointments were impressed by him: in those days of inordinate rhetoric and political extremism his revolutionary fervor, equally unbridled, was remarkable for its genuineness.†   (source)
  • They were caught up in the home-buying fervor that preceded the crash.
  • The crowd grew louder with the increasing fervor of the game.
  • The speaker aroused a patriotic fervor in the crowd.
    fervor = intense feelings
  • Feeling the capacity to be, to live, to act, to pour out the spirit of their souls into concrete and objective form with a high fervor   (source)
  • Small wonder the lords gather around him with such fervor, she thought, he is Robert come again.†   (source)
  • He said her name with an understated fervor.†   (source)
  • Even they kissed with more fervor than Hizdahr zo Loraq.†   (source)
  • Queen Selyse led the responses, her pinched face full of fervor.†   (source)
  • I'm graduating with my class, Tradd," Mark said with startling fervor.†   (source)
  • Seized by patriotic fervor, Pollard galloped off to join the military.†   (source)
  • It was so free, so abundant, it had lost its fervor.†   (source)
  • His fervor for the written word was an interweaving of solemn respect and gossipy irreverence.†   (source)
  • Not all her queen's men seemed to share her fervor.†   (source)
  • He leans forward, his eyes glowing with fervor.†   (source)
  • 'What'd he say about me?' he demanded excitedly in a fervor of proud and blissful anticipation.†   (source)
  • A cultlike fervor was starting to gather around the girl.†   (source)
  • "To the fervor of the Warrior's Sons and the brilliance of the Queen Regent.†   (source)
  • Dobbs shouted louder, his face red with revolutionary fervor.†   (source)
  • He wondered what Ser Kevan might have had to say about his son's new fervor.†   (source)
  • I'm going to make it through this school, Mr. McLean," he said with sudden, absolute fervor.†   (source)
  • The passion of the others woke up Jose Arcadio's fervor.†   (source)
  • And, with the same fervor with which they once sang His praises, Men now reviled Him.†   (source)
  • Against what evil, against what forlorn love Was this predestined fervor meant?†   (source)
  • I have no journalistic experience or training, but I attacked this project with a fervor and excitement that I didn't know I had.†   (source)
  • Her pleading tone, her religious fervor, greatly impressed him, along with the fact that her college entrance examinations had placed her in the upper one percent of the class.†   (source)
  • She had replaced Aunt Escolastica with so much fervor and so much grace that Fermina confused them to the point of loving her.†   (source)
  • In the summer of '64, Owen Meany resembled a dropout—in many ways—but his fervor for practicing the shot had reappeared.†   (source)
  • I knew I should be drunk with gratitude that I, an ignorant girl who'd crawled out of a scrap heap, should be allowed to study there, but I couldn't summon the fervor.†   (source)
  • Maven nods with fervor.†   (source)
  • In a confused way he thought that one thing had something to do with the other, and he repeated the formula now with the fervor of a prayer, but it did not have the desired effect.†   (source)
  • Dad, his fervor kindled, would drone for an hour or more, reciting the same lines over and over, fueled by some internal passion that burned long after the rest of us had been lectured into a cold stupor.†   (source)
  • Fish said) smelled like raw chicken and shut his eyes whenever Mr. Fish spoke—Mr. Kenmore needed to concentrate with such fervor on his own role that he found Scrooge's presence a distraction.†   (source)
  • In fact, she loved him as little as she had loved the other one, but knew much less about him, and his letters did not have the fervor of the other one's, nor had he given her so many moving proofs of his determination.†   (source)
  • In the front pews of faces that I observed, no one sought the disappearing angel with as much fervor as Mr. Fish, who was already surprised to hear that Owen Meany did have a speaking part.†   (source)
  • Whereas the Rev. Mr. Merrill had heeded his calling as a young man—he had always been in, and of, the church—the Rev. Mr. Wiggin was a former airline pilot; some difficulty with his eyesight had forced his early retirement from the skies, and he had descended to our wary town with a newfound fervor—the zeal of the convert giving him the healthy but frantic appearance of one of those "elder" citizens who persist in entering vigorous sporting competitions in the over-fifty category.†   (source)
  • Locked in a utility room at Misericordia Hospital, deaf to the calls of his colleagues and the pleas of his family, removed from the horror of the plague victims dying on the floor in the packed corridors, he wrote a letter of feverish love to his wife and children, a letter of gratitude for his existence in which he revealed how much and with how much fervor he had loved life.†   (source)
  • A similar fervor now gripped Eragon.†   (source)
  • When the grotesque congregation finished, ending with another chorus of "As Tosk wrote, so shall it be," the three novitiates shook the bells in an ecstasy of religious fervor, and the resulting clamor seemed loud enough to bring down the ceiling.†   (source)
  • She struts and preens, plots and laments with such a fervor that it is almost impossible to believe she is not truly Lady Macbeth herself.†   (source)
  • But it was because of no abiding fervor for American liberty that he had persuaded his young king to come to America's aid.†   (source)
  • "Shall we broach a flagon of hippocras and drink to the fervor of the Warrior's Sons on our way home?"†   (source)
  • Without meaning to, the woman looked at Jose Arcadio and examined his magnificent animal in repose with a kind of pathetic fervor.†   (source)
  • Women artists of many kinds, women of many kinds are in ferment here, they are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages.†   (source)
  • Alan had hoped with great fervor to be gone from this country in a week, but he found himself agreeing.†   (source)
  • The radio had been a primary tool in the genocide, for whipping up murderous fervor and for organizing it.†   (source)
  • Angered by the revelations he had been forced to see in his discussion with Catti-brie, he had returned to his work with fervor.†   (source)
  • Saladin observed the obligatory evening prayer as well, though with far less fervor than the men in the warehouse, for he had no intention of achieving martyrdom this night.†   (source)
  • Forrestal was so taken with the fervor of the moment that he decided he wanted the Suribachi flag as a souvenir.†   (source)
  • Another ten or twenty sets of arms might mean the difference between victory or defeat, and Roran knew better than most the fervor with which people would fight to defend their homes.†   (source)
  • I spoke automatically and with such fervor that I did not realize that the men were still talking and laughing until my dry mouth, filling up with blood from the cut, almost strangled me.†   (source)
  • Juma fervor combined with the explosive news from Afghanistan could be a volatile combination for a foreigner caught in the crossfire.†   (source)
  • Dick was standing at the side of a black-surfaced high-way, Route 66, his eyes fixed upon the immaculate emptiness as though the fervor of his gaze could force motorists to materialize.†   (source)
  • He gazes at me curiously, and though he hasn't a clue what I'm talking about (nor, in truth, do I, at least in a pointed way), he knows enough of me to note the brief fervor in my voice, and this quiets him for a moment.†   (source)
  • Ser Kevan had always been solid, stolid, pragmatic; he had never heard him speak with such fervor before.†   (source)
  • The service crests forward in swells of fervor, then contemplation and then more fervorall mixed in with traditional' gospel standards.†   (source)
  • Already on her third page of precise notes, she listens intently as a talkative student in the first row parries with James on the "evangelical fervor" question.†   (source)
  • The alien who had just walked out of his room was also the man he felt passionately enough about to strike with all the fervor he could summon up.†   (source)
  • And they anticipated some of the flash and crowd-pleasing fervor that would accrue, not too many years later, to Elvis, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.†   (source)
  • Still, he pushes forward gamely-there's a lot of ground to cover in this survey course-and by 8:55 he's tying social characteristics of lateeighteenth-century American progressives to the emergence of public educational institutions, schools that carried, he asserts, "an evangelical fervor in what they saw as the serious business of educating youngsters, especially the hordes of immigrants."†   (source)
  • He repeated it with so much rage that it almost seemed to be fervor, and Captain Roque Carnicero was touched, because he thought he was praying.†   (source)
  • With the invasion of Okinawa now commanding the headlines, and patriotic fervor running high, the tour was inspiring subscriptions at a rate that would astound the nation when they were finally totaled.†   (source)
  • Dunbar demanded with sneering fervor.†   (source)
  • The federalist fervor, which the exiles had pictured as a powder keg about to explode, had dissolved into a vague electoral illusion.†   (source)
  • 'America is the strongest and most prosperous nation on earth,' Nately informed him with lofty fervor and dignity.†   (source)
  • It was the mission of boot camp to quickly convert recruits' naive boyish fervor into something American society had never generated before: a mass-produced, numerically immense cadre of warrior-specialists at once technically sophisticated and emotionally impervious to the horrors of battle.†   (source)
  • Massive throngs, a "million-dollar cast" of Hollywood stars, and three days of patriotic fervor awaited them in Chicago, where several hundred thousand public and parochial schoolchildren had become volunteer bond salespeople.†   (source)
  • She had begged God with such fervor for something fearful to happen so that she would not have to poison Rebeca that she felt guilty of Remedios' death.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Arcadio was a solitary and frightened child during the insomnia plague, in the midst of Ursula's utilitarian fervor, during the delirium of Jose Arcadio Buendia, the hermetism of Aureliano, and the mortal rivalry between Amaranta and Rebeca.†   (source)
  • This was the symbol of the post office, yet also seemed to symbolize Stone's allegiance to his country which was blind, uncompromising, unconditional, and though he would have fought me had he heard me express the thought, almost Third Reich in its fervor and rigidity.†   (source)
  • There, she had done it, said it, swiftly and smoothly; with fiery fervor surprising even to her she had uttered the words which for days upon end she had rehearsed incessantly, wondering if she could muster the courage to get them past her lips.†   (source)
  • She took his dictation with care, but because of his runaway fervor, in some haste, so it was not until she got down to the job of typing it out for the printer that she began to glimpse seething in that cauldron of historical allusions and dialectical hypotheses and religious imperatives and legal precedents and anthropological propositions the smoky, ominous presence of a single word—repeated several times—which quite baffled and confounded and frightened her, appearing as it did…†   (source)
  • All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken fervor.†   (source)
  • All white-headed, and shrunken some from his former size, he told me about her with fervor.†   (source)
  • I admitted his great revolutionary fervor, but I felt that his zealwas a trifle excessive.†   (source)
  • She cast her eyes up with exaggerated fervor.†   (source)
  • I mean the person who loves Joan of Arc and the salesgirls in dress shops on Broadway—with an equal fervor.†   (source)
  • With regard to religion-as to many other problems-plague had induced in them a curious frame of mind, as remote from indifference as from fervor; the best name to give it, perhaps, might be "objectivity."†   (source)
  • They took it for granted that she was imbued with their own patriotic fervor and would have been shocked to know how slight an interest in the war she had.†   (source)
  • I went through the coaches; I remember a few farmers, a woman dressed in mourning, a young boy who was reading with fervor the Annals of Tacitus, a wounded and happy soldier.†   (source)
  • …"best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way out of the crisis.†   (source)
  • His mother smiled at his aunt's fervor.†   (source)
  • "We must deal here with a dislocation of life involving millions of people, a dislocation so vast as to stagger the imagination" so fraught with tragic consequences as to make us rather not want to look at it or think of it" so old that we would rather try to view it as an order of nature and strive with uneasy conscience and false moral fervor to keep it so.†   (source)
  • Alvah Scarret had found a crusade to which he devoted himself with the truest fervor he had ever experienced.†   (source)
  • Tarrou has some comments on the sermon preached by Paneloux: "I can understand that type of fervor and find it not displeasing.†   (source)
  • I read, uncomprehendingly and with fervor, these words written with a minute brush by a man of my blood: I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.†   (source)
  • I never blamed myself for throwing aside such things as didn't let themselves be read with fervor, for they left nothing with me anyhow, and I took my cue from Padilla not to vex myself about what didn't come easy.†   (source)
  • She even refused the tendollar gold piece which I, in my groomlike fervor, wished to present her after the wedding.†   (source)
  • …it and his dressing gown swelling over his behind while every now and then he treated his plastered hair with affection; with Uncle Charlie listening to Father Coughlin who hadn't yet begun to shag out the money-changers but had that boring fervor of the high-powered and misleading who won't let you be but have to make you feel all the trembling vacancy of winter space between Detroit and Chicago--if you took me there, by the firelight, facing Uncle Charlie who had one leg thrown…†   (source)
  • He gazed at Paneloux, summoning to his gaze all the strength and fervor he could muster against his weariness.†   (source)
  • Aided by the unscrupulous adventurers who operated the Freedmen's Bureau and urged on by a fervor of Northern hatred almost religious in its fanaticism, the former field hands found themselves suddenly elevated to the seats of the mighty.†   (source)
  • And she knew that religious fervor often manifested itself in extremes of feeling and action.†   (source)
  • In the fervor of discussing the game they ignored her.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile he wants to see his daughter—your wife—with the greatest fervor.†   (source)
  • A kind of crude and animal-like poetic fervor took possession of them.†   (source)
  • He began to advance upon the young man, his eyes glowing and his voice ringing with fervor.†   (source)
  • And told with all the fervor and force that you are now telling this other lie?†   (source)
  • "Perfectly true," Father Paissy, the silent and learned monk, assented with fervor and decision.†   (source)
  • I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervor of gratitude.†   (source)
  • "And in me!" said the Hindoo, with equal fervor.†   (source)
  • In a word, an almost poetical fervor prevailed.†   (source)
  • Then she continued her singing with inexpressible fervor and feeling.†   (source)
  • "If god spares Beth, I'll try to love and serve Him all my life," answered Jo, with equal fervor.†   (source)
  • I discussed the question of Atlantis with the fervor of a man who no longer had any doubts.†   (source)
  • "With my life, if necessary, Miss Temple," cried the youth, with fervor.†   (source)
  • Alexey Alexandrovitch had disliked this new enthusiastic fervor.†   (source)
  • "That it is, Caleb," said his wife, with answering fervor.†   (source)
  • "Praised be the Lord forever!" exclaimed the mother, with the fervor of restored faith and hope.†   (source)
  • The dignity of the wife checked the fervor of the lover and the mother.†   (source)
  • His hand was grasped with convulsive fervor by the youth, who continued silent.†   (source)
  • All bent their heads reverently, and Maximov clasped his hands before him, with peculiar fervor.†   (source)
  • —to thee peace and welcome," the Egyptian replied, with fervor.†   (source)
  • "I have to know!" he whispered with exaggerated fervor, so that both Miss Robinson and the teacher glanced at him in amazement.†   (source)
  • Shefford had marked a different force and religious fervor in the younger Mormons, and now he understood them.†   (source)
  • I can't forget how he prayed with almost equal fervor for a cat, and then tried to tear my throat out with his teeth.†   (source)
  • He laid stress upon the purity of his motives in all dealings with men in the world and spoke of the fervor of his friendship for those who were amiable.†   (source)
  • The truth in regard to Esta was that in spite of her guarded up-bringing, and the seeming religious and moral fervor which at times appeared to characterize her, she was just a sensuous, weak girl who did not by any means know yet what she thought.†   (source)
  • She was not very successful at accepting his fervor with the air of amused woman of the world, but she sounded reasonably impersonal: "Thank you.†   (source)
  • "My being is yours," he sang in desperation, repeating the same anguished melodic phrase, which the orchestra also picked up again on its own, ascending two notes up from the dominant and with deepest fervor moving back to the fifth below.†   (source)
  • And she, feeling the intensity of his admiration and infected in part at least by the enchantment and fervor that was so definitely dominating him, was swayed to the point where she was seeing him as one for whom she could care—very much.†   (source)
  • After that, he threw himself with redoubled fervor into the arms of the clear-eyed goddess, about whose soothing powers Director Behrens had so many virtuous things to say; and the problem that consumed his every thought day and night, to which he devoted all the persistence, all the sportsman's tenacity he had once brought to the conviction of poor sinners—back in the days before his frequently extended leave of absence, which now threatened to become permanent retirement—that problem…†   (source)
  • He was amazed and delighted with his own mind and when he walked on again spoke of the matter with fervor.†   (source)
  • Her jungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge of half-formed thought about the creation of beauty by suggestion.†   (source)
  • With a kind of religious fervor he had managed to go through the pitfalls of his youth and to remain virginal until after his marriage.†   (source)
  • What I took to be a trial of my soul was only a preparation for a new and more beautiful fervor of the spirit.†   (source)
  • He felt unutterably big and remade by the simple experience through which he had been passing and in a kind of fervor of emotion put up his hands, thrusting them into the darkness above his head and muttering words.†   (source)
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