All 17 Uses of
earnest
in
The Return of the Native
- But, Timothy, hearken to me," said the Grandfer earnestly.†
Chpt 1
- "I'm sure when I heard they'd been forbid I felt as glad as if anybody had gied me sixpence," said an earnest voice—that of Olly Dowden, a woman who lived by making heath brooms, or besoms.†
Chpt 1
- So much is this the case that what is called the play of the features often helps more in understanding a man or woman than the earnest labours of all the other members together.†
Chpt 1
- "Did you indeed think I believed you were married?" she again demanded earnestly.†
Chpt 1
- "Indeed," said Venn earnestly, "she knows nothing whatever about it.†
Chpt 1
- Whenever these home supplies were exhausted he would go to the Quiet Woman, and, standing with his back to the fire, grog in hand, tell remarkable stories of how he had lived seven years under the water-line of his ship, and other naval wonders, to the natives, who hoped too earnestly for a treat of ale from the teller to exhibit any doubts of his truth.†
Chpt 1
- The earnestness with which Thomasin spoke prevented further objections.†
Chpt 2
- That she was doing for an earnest reason what would most naturally be done in jest was at any rate a safe secret.†
Chpt 2
- "And I thought so too, Mrs. Yeobright," said Christian earnestly, "but father there was so eager that he had no manners at all, and left home almost afore 'twas dark.†
Chpt 2
- "I'll tell you," said Yeobright, with unexpected earnestness.†
Chpt 3
- When three or four weeks had been passed thus, Yeobright resumed his reading in earnest.†
Chpt 4
- I was simply for Clym," replied Mrs. Yeobright, with too much emphasis in her earnestness.†
Chpt 4
- Had Wildeve known how thoroughly in earnest Venn had become he might have been still more alarmed.
Chpt 4 *in earnest = seriousness
- "You must not shrink from me, dear Clym," said Thomasin earnestly, in that sweet voice of hers which came to a sufferer like fresh air into a Black Hole.†
Chpt 5
- Yes," she pleaded earnestly, "help me to get to Budmouth harbour without my grandfather's or my husband's knowledge, and I can do all the rest."†
Chpt 5
- "You will write to her in a day or two?" said the young woman earnestly.†
Chpt 5
- "I will," said Venn earnestly.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
-
(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined