All 17 Uses
vehement
in
Of Human Bondage
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- He wanted to make them feel that this was the first consciously serious step in their lives; he tried to grope into the depths of their souls; he wanted to instil in them his own vehement devotion.†
Chpt 17-18
- At first he blamed himself for this falling away, and the fear of hell-fire urged him to renewed vehemence; but the passion was dead, and gradually other interests distracted his thoughts.†
Chpt 17-18
- It was autumn now, but often the days were cloudless still, and then the sky seemed to glow with a more splendid light: it was as though nature consciously sought to put a fuller vehemence into the remaining days of fair weather.†
Chpt 27-28
- It was the first love letter he had ever written, and he was conscious of its tameness; he felt that he should say all sorts of vehement things, how he thought of her every minute of the day and how he longed to kiss her beautiful hands and how he trembled at the thought of her red lips, but some inexplicable modesty prevented him; and instead he told her of his new rooms and his office.†
Chpt 37-38
- She was working with vehement gravity.†
Chpt 39-40
- Before the American could answer someone else broke in vehemently.†
Chpt 41-42 *
- Philip thought of Fanny Price; she had a vehement belief in her talent; her strength of will was extraordinary.†
Chpt 47-48
- The desire for pleasure which Cronshaw said was the only motive of human action urged them blindly on, and the very vehemence of the desire seemed to rob it of all pleasure.†
Chpt 49-50
- He was more alive, there was an excitement in sheer being, an eager vehemence of soul, which made life now a trifle dull.†
Chpt 67-68
- Her objections made him insist, and yet he wanted her with all his heart to refuse vehemently.†
Chpt 75-76
- He went back to his rooms, but they filled him with horror, he had been so wretched in them; he tried once more to read Burton's book, but, as he read, he told himself again and again what a fool he had been; it was he who had made the suggestion that they should go away, he had offered the money, he had forced it upon them; he might have known what would happen when he introduced Griffiths to Mildred; his own vehement passion was enough to arouse the other's desire.†
Chpt 77-78
- He did not know what it was that passed from a man to a woman, from a woman to a man, and made one of them a slave: it was convenient to call it the sexual instinct; but if it was no more than that, he did not understand why it should occasion so vehement an attraction to one person rather than another.†
Chpt 77-78
- I have an idea that when first El Greco came to the city it was by such a night, and it made so vehement an impression upon him that he could never get away from it.'†
Chpt 87-88
- Life was passionate and manifold, and because it offered so much they felt a restless yearning for something more; because they were human they were unsatisfied; and they threw this eager vitality of theirs into a vehement striving after the ineffable.†
Chpt 87-88
- Then she dropped suddenly the vehemence of passion and gave a soft, insinuating laugh.†
Chpt 95-96
- Athelny had lately added socialism to the other contradictory theories he vehemently believed in, and he stated now: "In a socialist state we should be richly pensioned, you and I, Betty.'†
Chpt 107-108
- He associated passion with cries and tears and vehemence, and there was nothing of this in Sally; but he did not know what else but passion could have caused her to give herself.†
Chpt 119-120
Definitions:
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(1)
(vehement) marked by extreme intensity -- especially emotion such as anger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)