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active interest and enthusiasm

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

zeal = enthusiasm

Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until...
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

zeal = enthusiasm

but surely never was such a sermon preached ... with so much zeal, knowledge, and sincerity;
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

zeal = enthusiasm

Yossarian was stunned by their overbearing vigor and zeal,
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

zeal = enthusiasm

As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

zeal = enthusiasm

She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge
Jane Austen -- Emma

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

I read most of them with laudable zeal,
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

zeal = enthusiasm

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

zeal = enthusiasm

Oh, once in a while they get carried away but it's good to see all that energy and zeal and enthusiasm.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

Max had experienced some of this himself, but it had never reached such a groundswell of intensity or zeal.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

At this time and place, she become all on fire with zeal.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

zeal = enthusiasm

If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear a show of zeal:
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

If you had pleas'd to have defended it with any terms of zeal...
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

resolving, with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for the express benefit of young women with artistic tendencies.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women

zeal = enthusiasm

zeal = active interest and enthusiasm

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