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    fervour


    1. manner of time and fervour


    2. Then they kissed again with more fervour


    3. In this respect, the teachers of a new religion have always had a considerable advantage in attacking those ancient and established systems, of which the clergy, reposing themselves upon their benefices, had neglected to keep up the fervour of faith and devotion in the great body of the people; and having given themselves up to indolence, were become altogether incapable of making any vigorous exertion in defence even of their own establishment


    4. The most opulent church in Christendom does not maintain better the uniformity of faith, the fervour of devotion, the spirit of order, regularity, and austere morals, in the great body of the people, than this very poorly endowed church of Scotland


    5. Raven counted to ten in his head, just wanting this to be over, hating her with such fervour that he longed to hurt her, to force the stubborn woman into understanding


    6. He then arose with great fervour, and stood in the midst of them, and adjured them by the blood of Abel the just, "Let not one of you go down from this holy and pure mountain, in which our fathers have ordered us to dwell


    7. He then arose with great fervour and stood in the midst of them and adjured them by the blood of Abel the just "Let not one of you go down from this holy and pure mountain in which our fathers have ordered us to dwell


    8. ‘Not in the least,’ Sanjay replied with slightly less fervour than he would have liked


    9. increased and widened until it embraces all with the same degree of fervour


    10. He did this with a fervour that left them all mystified

    11. This is bringing a new sense of idealistic fervour to your career


    12. fervour than the others


    13. with more fervour than the


    14. more fervour than the others for


    15. “A lot should be cast and then the jinx thrown overboard with a prayer to the old man of the sea,” quoth the ringleader again, eyes wide with fear and fervour


    16. wave of patriotic fervour, when before the war, it was apparent she would lose


    17. He announced the number to the congregation who took it up with a fervour known only to boarders


    18. The game was played with the fervour of a Sirtaki, Zorba’s dance to you and me


    19. hel crammed together, each ignoring the other with equal fervour


    20. Boss thought, the clamber of activity continuing around them but with les fervour

    21. The Doctor had tried to deliver his compliment with nonchalance, but the fervour with which he spoke did not escape the notice of Syd and Monty


    22. My own sense was that Kejriwal and Anna were both headstrong individuals—a clash was inevitable once the original fervour of the Lok Pal movement died down


    23. Then his lips sought hers with a fervour not matched during their one night together


    24. “I liked this man; his fervour and integrity gave him a stature


    25. a religious fervour in the sense that


    26. And I have had three letters from you this week condemning their use with all the fervour the English language places at your disposal--really it is generous to you in this respect--as a substitute for the mixed diet of the ordinary Philistine


    27. She soon would, though, he told himself; and he went over to her determined and confident, lifted her unresisting hand, kissed it with all the fervour of happy reunion, and said with what he felt was immense tact and presence of mind, "I would have known you _anywhere_


    28. “Because,” said the Catskinner with an unpleasant fervour in his voice, “there are those who are using this time to unsettle and aggravate our endeavours


    29. It may have been a bubbling cauldron of racial unrest, drug culture, and alcohol-induced fervour, but on the surface, to an outsider, it was boring


    30. Wild fervour spurred them into action; the madcap choice being made

    31. he began with sharp emphasis and with a strength of fervour to his voice


    32. I know that, as in her childhood she had no parent, so she is now devoted to you with all the constancy and fervour of her present years and character, united to the trustfulness and attachment of the early days in which you were lost to her


    33. Similarly, though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some persons to brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind


    34. Therefore when the President said (else had his own head quivered on his shoulders), that the good physician of the Republic would deserve better still of the Republic by rooting out an obnoxious family of Aristocrats, and would doubtless feel a sacred glow and joy in making his daughter a widow and her child an orphan, there was wild excitement, patriotic fervour, not a touch of human sympathy


    35. So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language as well as he could; and all the while he rode so slowly and the sun mounted so rapidly and with such fervour that it was enough to melt his brains if he had any


    36. And what's more, he wanted to run into the wilderness! He was full of fervour, prayed at night, read the old books, 'the true' ones, and read himself crazy


    37. I say so because Don Fernando made all haste to leave me, and by the adroitness of my maid, who was indeed the one who had admitted him, gained the street before daybreak; but on taking leave of me he told me, though not with as much earnestness and fervour as when he came, that I might rest assured of his faith and of the sanctity and sincerity of his oaths; and to confirm his words he drew a rich ring off his finger and placed it upon mine


    38. The cure marvelled at this humour, although Emma's religion, he thought, might, from its fervour, end by touching on heresy, extravagance


    39. It was about this time, that is to say, the beginning of winter, that she seemed seized with great musical fervour


    40. promised in the fervour of seduction, estranged him from her so completely, that

    41. In spite of his own disappointment, or, most probably, actuated by the feelings that had been petrified, not cooled, in all their sanguine fervour, like a boiling torrent of lava suddenly dash ing into the sea, he thought a marriage of mutual inclination (would envious stars permit it) the only chance for happiness in this disastrous world


    42. I recollected with what fervour I addressed the God of my


    43. And those two American citizens shook hands on it with the greatest fervour, while I turned away and received full in the eyes the brilliant wink of the Borkum lighthouse squatting low down in the darkness


    44. He talked to her now with some of the old fervour with which he had talked to Miriam, but he cared less about the talk; he did not bother about his conclusions


    45. Many opinions and beliefs which have been cherished among ourselves quite as strongly as the sacredness of property have passed away; and the most untenable propositions respecting the right of bequests or entail have been maintained with as much fervour as the most moderate


    46. I looked round impatiently---I felt her by me---I could almost see her, and yet I could not! I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning---from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse! I had not one


    47. the same course as before, with unabated fervour; and thus, in repeated


    48. which he repaid me with a fervour that seemed at once to thank me, and


    49. employed with unwearied fervour in celebrating thus the festival of our


    50. Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship
























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    Synonyms for "fervour"

    ardor ardour fervency fervidness fervor fervour fire excitation excitement inflammation

    "fervour" definitions

    the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up


    feelings of great warmth and intensity