All 6 Uses of
vehement
in
Jane Eyre
- I feared to return to the nursery, and feared to go forward to the parlour; ten minutes I stood in agitated hesitation; the vehement ringing of the breakfast-room bell decided me; I MUST enter.†
p. 38.6 *
- you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement; the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you.†
p. 82.9
- The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway, and asserting a right to predominate, to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last: yes, — and to speak.†
p. 291.9
- I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence.†
p. 344.4
- I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other; and as neither present circumstances warranted, nor my present mood inclined me to mutiny, I observed careful obedience to St. John's directions; and in ten minutes I was treading the wild track of the glen, side by side with him.†
p. 462.2
- How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger!†
p. 489.5
Definition:
marked by extreme intensity -- especially emotion such as anger