Sample Sentences forzealot (auto-selected)
zealot with a lowercase "z"
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Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot.† (source)
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But the company of this sweet, if peculiar, guest pleased her the way a zealot pleases his teacher.† (source)
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Ishmael's grandfather had been a Highland Presbyterian, his grandmother an Irish zealot from the bogs above Lough Ree; they met in Seattle five years before the Great Fire, wed, and raised six sons.† (source)
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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)
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I have been a Catholic, a revelationist, a neo-Marxist, an interface zealot, a Bound Shaker, a satanist, a bishop in the Church of Jake's Nada, and a dues-paying subscriber to the Assured Reincarnation Institute.† (source)
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Jace had never had that—he had recklessness, and the anarchic joy of imagined self-annihilation, but he was not a zealot.† (source)
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Jack had seen Denker the teacher as not much different from the strutting South American little Caesars in their banana kingdoms, standing dissidents up against the wall of the handiest squash or handball court, a super-zealot in a comparatively small puddle, a man whose every whim becomes a crusade.† (source)
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I make no claims to have a life in Christ, or with Christ—and certainly not for Christ, which I've heard some zealots claim.† (source)
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They saved the bulk of their contempt and zealotry for the young, especially the poor women.† (source)
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One well-trained zealot with a pistol could kill the new president, two former presidents, and a pair of vice presidents with five crisp shots.† (source)
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All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots — provided only they be sincere — have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.† (source)
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Even so, he and his unit threw themselves into the task with a devotion that matched the religious zealotry of their adversaries.† (source)
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She was a small, wiry woman with the eyes of a zealot and though pushing forty, wore her hair in two long plaits.† (source)
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He's made the same error many zealots make—confusing metaphor with a literal reality.† (source)
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The alien quality of this garden was in the severe zealotry of its tending.† (source)
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Some nosing zealot in the Ministry (a woman, probably: someone like the little sandy-haired woman or the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department) might start wondering why he had been writing during the lunch interval, why he had used an old-fashioned pen, what he had been writing — and then drop a hint in the appropriate quarter.† (source)
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