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Example sentences for "ardent desire"

  • After evincing such an ardent desire to come to Lourdes, terror was agitating her now that the moment for attempting the miracle was at hand.

  • An ardent desire, which each passing minute heightened and irritated, was upbuoying them, like a more and more devouring thirst, which only the waters of the miraculous fountain could appease.

  • Extremely devout, she had for many months been possessed by an ardent desire to go to Lourdes.

  • The moaning had abated somewhat already, and every face was turned towards the girl with an ardent desire to believe.

  • The saint had always burned with an ardent desire of martyrdom, which was much increased by the glorious crowns of some of his disciples, especially of St. Boniface.

  • In her last illness, but especially in her agony, she repeated almost without intermission certain verses of the psalms, which express an ardent desire of the heavenly Jerusalem, and of being united to God.

  • He never read the triumphs of the martyrs without abundance of tears, and burned with an ardent desire of the like happiness.

  • Could you penetrate into my inmost soul, you would be convinced of the great veneration I have for you, and of my ardent desire to testify my attachment.

  • He would appear amongst them with great confusion, who had not in this valley of tears continually raised his soul above all things visible to become already, in ardent desire, an inhabitant of those blessed regions.

  • The servant of God, animated by an ardent desire to be contemptible among men, quitted the desert, and at Emesus succeeded to his wish; for by affecting the manners of those who want sense, he passed for a fool.

  • They are forcibly struck by a singular phenomenon, they conceive an ardent desire of finding its cause, and they fall into frequent errors, led away by a secret tendency always to point out a new, unexpected, astonishing origin.

  • Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.

  • The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

  • These reports excited in Alexander an ardent desire to advance farther; but the spirit of the Macedonians now began to flag, when they saw the king raising one labour after another, and incurring one danger after another.

  • When Alexander arrived at Gordium, he was seized with an ardent desire to go up into the citadel, which contained the palace of Gordius and his son Midas.

  • By this means he increased in the heart of all an ardent desire of seeing him, and disposed every one to wait on the great Gaudama with favourable and good dispositions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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