Noun : She spoke persuasively and with ardor. ,his well-known ardor for Chinese art.    From Dictionary.com. 

I’ve let her try, but her ardour is somewhat disconcerting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bank Of VaJayJay | Her Bad Mother] Reference

It is possible, my friend, that your ardour is a little compromising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

All this he expressed with that ardour, which is congenial to the simplicity of truth; and with that enthusiasm, which in all instances accompanies recent conviction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference

The seeds of my ardour were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the "Aeneid," mother to me and nurse to me in poetry. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Antonia] Reference

Our troops, too, had all the ardour which is added even to the boldest by the assurance of victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference

Window titles are now consistent (and do not include "ardour").    From Wordnik.com.  [KVR News: Top Stories] Reference

"Sir," said Imlac, "your ardour is the natural effect of virtue animated by youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia] Reference

This poetry was generally amorous and melancholy, sometimes full of the warlike ardour which is found among our own troubadours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initiation into Literature] Reference

Sebastopol damped the ardour of the most sanguine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

They celebrate, with extravagant ardour, the charms of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

The mention of this damped my ardour a bit, I can tell you!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

No woman is too old to thrill at the story of a lover's ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

"We'll see about that," says Philip, not liking to damp her ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

This was not the subject that had engaged his thoughts or inflamed his ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

On and on he ran, with increasing speed and ardour, until he reached the goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Under such auspices, and with all the ardour of youth to help, my Book, or Books, progressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

This was "Figaro in London," in which his youthful ardour and plain speaking found energetic vent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Malay "room-boy" welcomes a new idea, and becomes gradually inspired with the ardour of the chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

At the same time, he was pursuing his own studies for self-improvement with characteristic ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference

But neither poetry nor prose could inspire Addington's mind with the ardour of his glowing friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

It was at this crisis that Colonel McDonell arrived with reinforcements, and the ardour of the enemy was checked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Government, they resolved on carrying it through at their own expense; but they have since cooled in their ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

Notwithstanding, coloured students made light of privations which might reasonably have damped the ardour of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference

The nation in general entered into the design with their usual ardour for all benevolent and charitable institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

It will not be a long engagement, as he is seventy-five to-morrow, but loves with the ardour of a seventeen year old!.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

I gazed in her face, flushed with ardour, refulgent with her inspired feelings, and thought her half way to heaven already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

The rich lands were sought for with that zeal, and cleared with that ardour, which the prospect of riches naturally inspired.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

This appears to be a favourite subject with a certain class of their writers, more distinguished for ardour than for judgment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

After a fortnight of the closest application, ardour of study and anxiety of mind combined, brought him to the brink of the grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference

The wonder is that, in the case of so young a boy, all of this suffering did not damp his ardour and discourage his still persevering.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference

Not only in this country is the subject pursued with ardour, but from my correspondence with many respectable medical gentlemen on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

She has frequently met Carol Quinton of late, and the ardour of his passion and her own overpowering love have frightened her at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

But now such a row, everybody wanted to go to the rescue, and it became a matter of difficulty to quell the military ardour of the army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

The people were evidently excited to sorrow when the attempt was at a mournful strain, and to ardour when the lilt took a loftier flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

But the all-pervading ardour of youth's "Will of Life" whispers with a bitter realisation of what death really means that you WANT to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

In order that further possible citizens might not be attracted to the Transvaal, the Volksraad passed a law calculated to damp their ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

Casas was his match in fervid eloquence, overmatched him in the ardour of his feelings, and ended by pulverising him under the weight of facts he hurled upon him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference

The Prince, at this period, cultivated dress with an ardour which threatened to dethrone Brummell himself, and his wardrobe was calculated to have cost L.100,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

And here, in spite of my struggles, he embraced me with the greatest ardour, and then, tearing himself away as if he only were the sufferer, he rushed out of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference