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    earnest


    1. ’ I said, visualising this encounter and rather hoping that the two of them never gang up on me in earnest


    2. Now the tears started in earnest


    3. I hope they will give patient hearing to my earnest and sincere prayer and start practicing the asanas from the very day they read the Yoga lessons


    4. "And we wouldn't want that," Alan said as he began to caress her in earnest


    5. Terry's brilliance new no bounds once the tournament started in earnest


    6. us the earnest of the Spirit


    7. 20According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed,


    8. she nodded in earnest


    9. Yet she also felt the earnest appeal to her sense of integrity which he expressed so clearly


    10. Her eyes showed most earnest interest, with a hint of apprehension

    11. The 'Village Players,' the name used for them by the rest of the town to refer to the Village Theatrical Society membership, began deciding in earnest what their first production should be and when they should expect to offer performances


    12. journey towards redemption could now begin in earnest


    13. Looking up at the moon, from his front lawn was the start of the trip in earnest


    14. It was more than worth the several letters he would draft throughout the remainder of the afternoon, hoping that one of the addressees would answer his earnest prayer


    15. He knew the Riverwood man was earnest, genuine, and in some ways, naïve


    16. Their families were all but one in most ways, and there was the earnest prayer that they could and would reunite and return to an old life after all of the current strife


    17. Mr Snickerty writhed irritably, but the fellow appeared in earnest, and the adjudicator reasoned that it would be more expedient to hear him out, than turn him away


    18. Sighing deeply - the prick still in her mouth - she began to suck it in earnest, her heart beating faster by the moment


    19. As she bent to go down on him in earnest, he grabbed her and threw her to the floor with himself on top of her, his young cock pumping wildly in and out of her already aching mouth


    20. Leonard had an earnest look about him

    21. The only impression she got was of an earnest statement


    22. Tomorrow it would begin in earnest, but this was an evening for celebration, for mourning, and for rest


    23. After a quick change of clothes and a loading of the guns I was off in an earnest attempt to find my comrades


    24. ” The clandestine nature of the plan set off something of an alarm in her, but I persisted in an earnest defense of the abduction


    25. Now the sun came out in earnest and it was stiflingly hot in the trench besides this hardly any of us had any water left and our thirsts were raging


    26. My pains had begun in earnest


    27. Suddenly, intense pains began in earnest


    28. No better method, it seems, could be fallen upon, of spending, with any advantage, the long interval between infancy and that period of life at which men begin to apply in good earnest to the real business of the world, the business which is to employ them during the remainder of their days


    29. ” She began to cry in earnest, her red rimmed eyes closing


    30. I sat there rooted to the spot and horrified at what I was witnessing and then the screeching started in earnest a long drawn out wail that seemed to go on and on

    31. Here was the Elekka he admired, standing before him, all earnest and determined


    32. ’ Monique said, her face turned towards him in earnest, ‘then this can all end


    33. The restoration work began in earnest


    34. The elders gathered in the conference room, the plain white suits and earnest expressions as always


    35. ‘Events have forced me to tell you something which may shock you,’ he said in earnest


    36. A second later, that very operation began in earnest


    37. He was by now crying in earnest and giving Mr


    38. So when they were caught it caused a notable uproar, and their earnest explanations of their miraculously acquiring an ability to swim swimming capability fell on deaf ears, and they suffered accordingly for being “f horrible nasty longhaired liberals with f communists viewpoints having f dared to lie to their PT Sergeant, but not to worry, such f behaviour will be cured by him, PT Sergeant Whomever by the grace of general Coetzee blah blah blah


    39. "Don't be silly," said Thistle, his voice sounding kind this time, and earnest


    40. “Let’s see if this young lady is in earnest

    41. Kay laughed with mirth, and then Leland began his attacks in earnest, and she lost herself in the thrill of deflection, attack, and counter-attack under the darkening sky, billowing grey clouds beginning to slide in from the east


    42. The boat bobbed up and down over the waves which grew in intensity as the dawn began to spread across the sky in earnest


    43. "You haven't got a Jaguar for sale?" he checked, tapping the newspaper with a long, grimy finger, looking directly at me for the first time with an earnest bovine expression that made me shudder


    44. Taft the isolationist, Dewey the dull but earnest reformer, or McCarthy at his most drunken and hysterical would all likely lose to Stevenson


    45. Wrapping her arms around her body, she began to cry in earnest, and all the tension, grief, and sorrow she had endured in the past few days broke out upon the cave floor as she threw herself down, sobbing hysterically


    46. I was trying to look conspicuously nonchalant; what a romantic poet might have in earnest called a ‘mad fool’


    47. If he was being kept alive, reason would dictate that they’d somehow manage to know as they usually did and perhaps hope he would still be alive when the uprising began in earnest; which if all had been carefully arranged, was a matter of days


    48. In truth, they were engaged in an earnest discussion, although their facial expressions did not betray it


    49. insight bred of earnest living, of loyally fulfilling the


    50. with the discipline of long-continued, earnest work, can














































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    Synonyms for "earnest"

    earnest businesslike sincere solemn dear devout heartfelt forward sedate serious grave faithful sober passionate ardent warm strenuous eager enthusiastic strong

    "earnest" definitions

    something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract


    characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions


    sincerely earnest


    not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal