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Definition
showing or feeling intense emotion — typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love
- That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that she and not Melanie were bestowing it as a Christmas gift.2.15 (33% in)
- Scarlett had received too many ardent love letters herself not to recognize the authentic note of passion when she saw it.2.11 (62% in)
- Hasn't your ardent beau popped the question yet?3.28 (93% in)
- She leaned toward him ardently but he held her away from him, looking at her with eyes from which all remoteness had fled, eyes tormented with struggle and despair.4.31 (88% in)
- As if by magic, the door of the parlor opened and the wide black face of Mammy appeared, ardent curiosity and deepest suspicion evident in every wrinkle.4.32 (63% in)
- She had not seen a professional bad woman since she left Savannah with Ellen more than twenty years before and she wished ardently that she had observed Belle more closely.4.33 (35% in)
- She had missed him but she now wished ardently that there was some way to avoid seeing him.4.43 (3% in)
- I'm going away tomorrow and I'm too ardent a lover to restrain my passion any longer.4.47 (50% in)
- He could be an ardent, almost a tender, lover for a brief while, and almost immediately a mocking devil who ripped the lid from her gunpowder temper, fired it and enjoyed the explosion.5.48 (45% in)
- To them, she not only represented wealth and elegance but the old regime, with its old names, old families, old traditions with which they wished ardently to identify themselves.5.49 (91% in)
- She suddenly wished that they were alone, wished ardently that Rhett and Melanie were at the end of the earth, so she could cry out: "But I want to look at things the way you look at them!5.57 (92% in)
There are no more uses of "ardent" in Gone with the Wind.
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