All 16 Uses of

ardent
in
The Count of Monte Cristo

Seizing in his arms the friend so long and ardently desired, Dantes almost carried him towards the window, in order to obtain a better view of his features by the aid of the imperfect light that struggled through the grating.†
Chpt 15-16

ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)

He received the enthusiastic greeting of his young acquaintance with evident pleasure, as though his chilled affections were rekindled and invigorated by his contact with one so warm and ardent.†
Chpt 15-16

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

Dantes gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonishment mingled with admiration.†
Chpt 15-16 *

ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)

Dantes recoiled from the idea of so infamous a death, and passed suddenly from despair to an ardent desire for life and liberty.†
Chpt 19-20

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

His rider was a priest, dressed in black, and wearing a three-cornered hat; and, spite of the ardent rays of a noonday sun, the pair came on with a fair degree of rapidity.†
Chpt 25-26

Go to work, labor, young man, struggle ardently and courageously; live, yourself, your mother and sister, with the most rigid economy, so that from day to day the property of those whom I leave in your hands may augment and fructify.†
Chpt 29-30

ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)

Then the three statues advanced towards him with looks of love, and approached the couch on which he was reposing, their feet hidden in their long white tunics, their throats bare, hair flowing like waves, and assuming attitudes which the gods could not resist, but which saints withstood, and looks inflexible and ardent like those with which the serpent charms the bird; and then he gave way before looks that held him in a torturing grasp and delighted his senses as with a voluptuous kiss.†
Chpt 31-32

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

When they spoke, although Teresa listened timidly and with downcast eyes to the conversation of her cavalier, as Luigi could read in the ardent looks of the good-looking young man that his language was that of praise, it seemed as if the whole world was turning round with him, and all the voices of hell were whispering in his ears ideas of murder and assassination.†
Chpt 33-34

'Do you desire it as ardently as you say?'†
Chpt 33-34

ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)

The paths of which you were just speaking have been traced by all young men of ardent imaginations.†
Chpt 67-68

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

It is generally the case that what we most ardently desire is as ardently withheld from us by those who wish to obtain it, or from whom we attempt to snatch it.†
Chpt 67-68

ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)

It is generally the case that what we most ardently desire is as ardently withheld from us by those who wish to obtain it, or from whom we attempt to snatch it.†
Chpt 67-68

But it is a glorious day for me,' continued the young girl, raising her ardent gaze to heaven, 'that on which I find at last an opportunity of avenging my father!'†
Chpt 85-86

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

The count, fearing to yield to the entreaties of her he had so ardently loved, called his sufferings to the assistance of his hatred.†
Chpt 89-90

ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)

And if I do not possess that talent, which your smiles prove to me you doubt, should I not still have that ardent love of independence, which will be a substitute for wealth, and which in my mind supersedes even the instinct of self-preservation?†
Chpt 95-96

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

It yet stood, under the shade of the fine avenue of lime-trees, which forms one of the most frequent walks of the idlers of Marseilles, covered by an immense vine, which spreads its aged and blackened branches over the stone front, burnt yellow by the ardent sun of the south.†
Chpt 111-112

Definition:

showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love