All 24 Uses of
earnest
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- He nodded to Waite, Pitkin and the others as he at last released Sally's waist, and crossed over to the hearth to warm and dry himself: as he did so, he cast a quick, somewhat suspicious glance at the two strangers, who had quietly resumed their game of dominoes, and for a moment a look of deep earnestness, even of anxiety, clouded his jovial young face.†
Chpt 3
- "Monsieur," interposed the Vicomte earnestly, and in still more broken English, "I fear you have not understand.†
Chpt 6
- But you WILL be prudent?" she added earnestly.†
Chpt 7
- "You'll hardly believe it, my little Chauvelin," she said earnestly, "but I often pass a whole day—a whole day—without encountering a single temptation."†
Chpt 8
- "Will you render France a small service, citoyenne?" he asked, with a sudden change of manner, which lent his thin, fox-like face a singular earnestness.†
Chpt 8
- But he remained serious and earnest whilst she laughed, and his voice, clear, incisive, and hard, was not raised above his breath as he said,— "Then, as you have heard of that enigmatical personage, citoyenne, you must also have guessed, and know, that the man who hides his identity under that strange pseudonym, is the most bitter enemy of our republic, of France …. of men like Armand St. Just."†
Chpt 8
- "Yes, you …." he urged still more earnestly, whilst his thin fox-like face seemed suddenly to have grown impressive and full of dignity, "here, in England, citoyenne …. you alone can help us….†
Chpt 8
- "For the sake of France, citoyenne!" reiterated Chauvelin, earnestly.†
Chpt 8
- And now," he added, whilst a sudden earnestness crept over his jovial young face, "how about business?"†
Chpt 9
- She knew that Chauvelin had spoken the truth; the man was too earnest, too blindly devoted to the misguided cause he had at heart, too proud of his countrymen, of those makers of revolutions, to stoop to low, purposeless falsehoods.†
Chpt 10
- "Hush!" said the Prince, earnestly and quickly, as he indicated Chauvelin, who had stood a little on one side throughout the whole of this little scene, watching Marguerite and the Comtesse with an amused, sarcastic little smile around his thin lips.†
Chpt 11
- She noticed at once that Sir Andrew immediately made for little Suzanne de Tournay, and that the two young people soon managed to isolate themselves in one of the deep embrasures of the mullioned windows, there to carry on a long conversation, which seemed very earnest and very pleasant on both sides.†
Chpt 12
- "I would not do that, if I were you," she said earnestly; then seeing the anxious look reappearing in his eyes, she added gaily; "No one can throw a ball better than you can, Sir Andrew, we should so miss you on the bowling-green."†
Chpt 13
- Chauvelin, I worked for you, sincerely, earnestly …. remember ….†
Chpt 15
- The face in the moonlight looked singularly earnest, and recalled to Marguerite's aching heart those happy days of courtship, before he had become the lazy nincompoop, the effete fop, whose life seemed spent in card and supper rooms.†
Chpt 16
- Why should he—who was obviously a serious, earnest man—wish to appear before his fellow-men as an empty-headed nincompoop?†
Chpt 18
- cannot you see that I am in deadly earnest?
Chpt 20 *earnest = sincere or serious
- The oath he had taken before his leader and comrade was one of obedience and secrecy; and yet the beautiful woman, who was asking him to trust her, was undoubtedly in earnest; his friend and leader was equally undoubtedly in imminent danger and ….†
Chpt 20
- "But, Lady Blakeney," said the young man, touched by the gentle earnestness of this exquisitely beautiful woman, "do you know that what you propose doing is man's work?†
Chpt 20
- "I am entirely at your service, Madame," rejoined the young man earnestly.†
Chpt 20
- No doubt they thought all the more, but Marguerite was far too absorbed in the importance—the deadly earnestness—of her journey, to stop and ponder over trifles of that sort.†
Chpt 21
- Marguerite had watched all these preparations with absolute horror; were it not for the earnestness of her purpose, she would incontinently have fled from this abode of dirt and evil smells.†
Chpt 22
- "Chauvelin knows of this inn, from the papers he stole," said Sir Andrew, earnestly, "and on landing will make straight for it."†
Chpt 23
- "Lud! they are a bit quaint, ain't they?" laughed Sir Percy, jovially, "But, odd's fish!" he added, with sudden earnestness and authority, "now you are here, Ffoulkes, we must lose no more time: that brute Chauvelin may send some one to look after us."†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined