All 6 Uses of
earnest
in
Story of My Life
- Even when I studied most earnestly it seemed more like play than work.
Chpt 7 *earnestly = seriously
- No deaf child who has earnestly tried to speak the words which he has never heard—to come out of the prison of silence, where no tone of love, no song of bird, no strain of music ever pierces the stillness—can forget the thrill of surprise, the joy of discovery which came over him when he uttered his first word.†
Chpt 13earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- All these experiences added a great many new terms to my vocabulary, and in the three weeks I spent at the Fair I took a long leap from the little child's interest in fairy tales and toys to the appreciation of the real and the earnest in the workaday world.†
Chpt 15earnest = sincere or serious
- The thought of going to college took root in my heart and became an earnest desire, which impelled me to enter into competition for a degree with seeing and hearing girls, in the face of the strong opposition of many true and wise friends.†
Chpt 18
- Just before the books came, Mr. Gilman had begun to remonstrate with Miss Sullivan on the ground that I was working too hard, and in spite of my earnest protestations, he reduced the number of my recitations.†
Chpt 19
- It was during my first visit to Boston that I really began to read in good earnest.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined