He lengthened his step to Big James's, controlled his ardent body, and tried to remember that he was a man with a man.
She thought that he was not a very ardent lover; but then again business might prevent him; and then again, what business ought to detain a lover from the idol of his soul?
But as the young lady was very good-natured and ardent in her expressions, especially those of commendation and approbation; and as the celebrated Dr.
All I myself hear from Paris is an occasional word from Mrs. Wharton, who is full of ardent activity and ingenious devotion there--a really heroic plunge into the breach.
The Election fight has revealed to me how ardent a Liberal lurks in the cold and clammy exterior of your /* H.
And his noble intellectual vitality was still but at its climax--he had two or three ardent purposes and plans.
Whatever the feeling, there was danger in this young and ardent girl becoming the partisan of an interesting man.
The ardent advocates of its azure rival, woad, struggled long before they would allow its adoption.
A series of structures concerning which the most ardent friend of the system cannot but admit that they are inelegant, uninspiring and unpractical.
They both had paid most ardent compliments to her feet and hands, and had earnestly begged for the privilege of calling upon her, which she granted, promising to give the number of her house when she unmasked.
As for ardent loving looks, she knew that the best way of eluding them was by having recourse to her little trick of dropping her gaze, as if she must look down for something missing near by.
For his creative moments in art occur when the antagonism between his feelings is at its height and when his proud astonishment and wonder at the world combine with the ardent desire to approach that same world as a lover.
The patriotic spirit of the country was appealed to, and to a considerable extent aroused and inflamed by the ardent and energetic declaration of our title to the whole of Oregon.
The Oregon senator, with his ardent nature, and his impulse to take part in every conflict, had raised a regiment of volunteers principally composed of men from the Pacific coast.
More quickly than his ardent and blinded advocates, he perceived the danger to himself which the candidacy of Mr. Polk inevitably involved; and he at once became restless and dissatisfied with the drift and tendency of the campaign.
Douglas had entered the preceding Congress at the early age of thirty-four, and the ardent young Irish soldier, James Shields, was now his colleague.
In the Senate he soon acquired the rank to which his thorough training and intelligence, his graceful speech, his ardent patriotism, his stainless life entitled him.
His ardent patriotism and ambitious temperament carried him into the war, where his brilliant career is known and read of all men.
The other New-England States were not lessardent than Massachusetts.
The logical complement of such ardent fidelity is an opposition marked by unscrupulous rancor.
The climate of Porto Cabello is less ardent than that of La Guayra.
The farther the plains stretch in this direction, the more ardent is their climate.
Hence it follows that the evaporation is not so great in the torrid zone as might be expected from the enormous augmentation of temperature; because, in those ardent climates, the air is habitually very humid.
You not only resisted a terrible temptation, the most terrible temptation to which a young, ardent and passion-smitten man can be exposed, but by your honor conclusively established the purity and sincerity of your love.
The ardent Italian showered a flood of burning kisses upon her forehead, cheeks and lips, and she quivered like a leaf in his embrace.
Armilly laughed a short, nervous laugh, and answered in a voice that seemed to mock him: "I have had hosts of ardent admirers in my time.
Louise did not resist, but still maintained an air of coquetry that was displeasing to the ardent young soldier.
Even the most ardent of health enthusiasts--unless he be an insane fanatic--draws the line somewhere.
That they were not without warrant in so delimiting it is evident from the utterances of such ardent opponents of restriction as Dr.
They listened to him when he (an ardent Baptist) cleared for action against the Welsh Church.
With lifted hatchet, as in act to fell, Here stood the young and ardent Teucapel.
Your stern resolve each ardent look proclaims; On then to conquest; let one hope inspire, One spirit animate, one vengeance fire!
The ball of Death unerring flew; His cheek has lost its ardent hue; He sinks, amid his gallant crew!
Dire was the strife, when ardent Teucapel Advancing in the front of carnage fell.
Fancy might think young Hope Pants for the vision, and withardent eye Pursues the unreal shade, and spreads her hands, Weeping to see it fade, as all her dreams Have faded.
More than a year had passed away and Philip Oswald was again in New-York, just as spring was gliding into the ardentembraces of summer.
Born with a lively, ardent disposition, susceptible to the diversions of society, I was forced at an early age to renounce them, and to pass my life in seclusion.
Severe training, ardent friendship, the society of the first composers, and incessant practice were vouchsafed him.
The striking originality, the fire, the passion of his music, the ardent national feeling, and the freshness of treatment, gave a genuine shock of delight and surprise to the German world.
Though this great work excited transports of enthusiasm in Paris, it was interdicted in many of the cities of Southern Europe on account of the subject being a disagreeable one to ardent and bigoted Catholics.
An ardent patriot, he has displayed the deepest interest in the affairs of his country, and taken an active part in its tangled politics.
In it Schumann seems to sing his 'Nunc Dimittis,' hailing the advent of this young and ardent spirit, who was to carry on the great line of composers, and to prove himself no unworthy member of their glorious company.
Verdi is a man of vigorous and active habits, taking an ardent interest in agriculture.
But all this is past, and nowhere throughout France is patriotism more ardent or the democratic spirit more alert than in the Vosges.
Nevertheless, in the face of persistent discouragements, Irish chivalry remained ardent and aflame in the first years of the war.
The case of the South of Ireland, her mostardent admirer will admit, is not as any other in the whole British Empire.
Like so many ardent Loyalists in Ulster, he came of Liberal stock.
To one who had for so many years put entire confidence in the reciprocity of the ardent and sincere friendship he himself had felt, it was a severe blow to meet such scandalous treachery.
I was, as I said before, poor, but proud, as every Spaniard should be, and an ardent longing to obtain honour and distinction dwelt in my youthful breast.
This was a well-merited compliment to the great and good man, who was then Commissioner from the United States to France, and a firm friend to the ardent John Paul.
At sixty-four his brave spirit was still unshaken; his ardent and restless ambition was as keen as ever.
Simplicity and an ardent religious feeling permeate her poetry, which she produced in abundance in spite of many obstacles put in the way of her intellectual pursuits by a prejudiced, bigoted, aristocratic family.
She gave up her ardent lover when he tortured her too much with his jealous whims, and the pain of that separation was dramatized by Goethe in his earliest play, The Caprice of the Lover.
Nothing is more painful to a man of quick and ardent feelings than to be compelled to inactivity, as was the case with young Rety while the events which we have sought to record were passing around him.
Then the achievements of his own countrymen entered into rivalry, and these, as an ardent patriot, he immortalized in poem and narrative.
He was an ardent defender of the Rosicrucians, and De Quincey considers him to have been the immediate, as J.
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