His wings seem to rustle with more fervency in midwinter. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
"Ah sure could use a friend," he said with utmost fervency. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference
"O, that it were to the day of my own death," exclaimed Elizabeth with fervency. From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
In the fervency of his feelings, Alonzo flew to him and clasped him in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Martyrdoms, when there was any fervency of faith in the martyrs, were very abstract. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
All the fervency which the mother had given to business, Micheline had given to love. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was fervency in the look they gave him, in the dark, in the light of their little fire. From Wordnik.com. [2005]
When he arrived at the stake, he kneeled down, and, for some time, prayed with great fervency. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
That thought comprised the fervency and timidity -- the hopes and fears of woman's first love. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Their responses during the prayers certainly have the virtue of fervency, if not of intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 03, March, 1890] Reference
They redoubled the fervency of their prayers and breathlessly waited for what was about to happen. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Miss Manners should enter a class, and, in the fervency of her good intentions, she did not demur. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
But, so far from intimidating him, this only the more confirmed him in his convictions and fervency. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
These prayers are eminently devotional, and all his hymns breathe the language of fervency and faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
When they arrived at the fatal spot, they both kneeled down, and prayed for some time with great fervency. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Often she exclaimed with solemn fervency, "The gift I hae is fae aboon, an 'what He gies daurna be hidit.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
All the fervency of this adjuration failed to convince the deputies of their duty, as conceived by the orator. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
The girl spoke with a fervency and passion that seemed to waken a responsive chord in Margaret Henson's breast. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
In vain I endeavored to insinuate the unpleasant truth, that the fervency of her adorers was no compliment to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
"It is riding on the back of one of those infernal mountain donkeys that had me gabbling my prayers with pious fervency.". From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
That of the third, scarlet, which is emblematical of fervency and zeal, and the appropriate color of the Royal Arch degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference
There was in the man's tone a fervency which touched Desmond at the time, and which he had good cause afterwards to remember. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
This fervency is all along of the question whether the Picts, or Piks, as Pinkerton chooses to call them, were Celts or Goths. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Once Obama secures the nomination, I hope you will support him with the fervency that you are currently displaying for Hillary. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign: We're On The Verge Of Wrapping This Thing Up] Reference
Have they their worship, like religious beings, and are their midnight lays but the outpouring of the fervency of their spirits?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
He was eight, scrawny and abounding with that childhood fervency that is always so photogenic -- a spitfire rustling in the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [bemymemory Diary Entry] Reference
But she also meant Bill, making the case of his wife with such fervency he has turned off some voters -- not to mention many pundits. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Taylor Fleming: Life as a Campaign: The Family That Campaigns Together Stays Together] Reference
In the fervency of admiration, their poets fabled that Apollo had lent them his lyre, and inspired them with his own spirit of harmony. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
The South gambled on its ability to win a war of secession based on the fervency of its cause and the competence of its military leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Ross M. Levine: Why War?] Reference
Arethusa looked up, her eyes bright with tears, and the fervency of her promise that she would think like everything first, hereafter, made. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Through courtesy to a friend, I wounded my own soul by yielding to converse on subjects, which no way tended to promote fervency of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
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