Into the struggle for the formation of the Constitution and its ratification in Virginia he had thrown himself with the ardor of a soldier.
Her ardor for purity and perfection is perhaps peculiarly feminine.
He united with the Wesleyan church, and threw himself with all the ardor of his nature into its Christian work.
He threw himself into the cause of his country with all the ardor of his nature.
Her rapidity of step, the ferocious ardor of a desire for rapine and murder which she still possessed, had flushed her hideous visage; her one green eye sparkled with savage joy.
Had Sheridan never reached the field, General Wright would have led us against the foe, whose ardor was already lost after the repeated repulses from the single corps.
New ardor was now kindled in the breasts of the men of the Sixth corps at these tidings, and they pressed forward at a pace unusual, even for them.
An exquisite ardor inflamed him, and Rosa responded to it.
I could sing to him, and talk to him, and show the ardor that I felt in all he did, and attain with labor to such knowledge as most interested him; and I attracted him.
It damped my new-born ardor, to find that ardor so difficult of communication to her.
Consulting only his ardor for science, and burthened with the usual load carried by a traveller on foot, he scaled the lofty Himmalayah, crossed the frontier of the Celestial Empire, and reached the table-land of Thibet.
Speaking one day with Monsieur de Buffon on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on a footing with those of the kitchen.
I am perfectly aware of the oppression under which your present office lays your mind, and of the ardor with which you pant for domestic life.
The ardor of these, however, would be abated if I thought that, on coming home, I should be left alone.
I return to farming with anardor which I scarcely knew in my youth, and which has got the better entirely of my love of study.
Were there no obstacle, you would feel no ardorto overcome it.
The blond misses of Albion see nothing in the dull inhabitants of their brumous isle, which can compare with the ardor and vivacity of the children of the south.
We must deal kindly with the eccentricities of genius, and remember that the very ardor and enthusiasm of temperament which makes the author delightful often leads the man astray.
Having achieved his honors, he relaxed in the ardor of his studies, and his judgment and taste also perhaps became cooler.
Now the FIRE sought the WOOD once more after so many years, and in ardor unspeakable embraced its bride.
Listen--I flung myself with all the ardor that I could command into the pursuit of my father's murderers.
In the ardor of pursuit through the thick and tangled woods, the first and second lines at last became mingled and moved on together as one.
The troops, having become somewhat scattered by the difficulties of the ground and the ardor of the contest, were immediately reformed, preparatory to renewing the attack.
For these vices, the ardor of heroism united with love of country could not compensate.
It is well for you to realize that what you have set your heart upon with such strange ardor is not certain of attainment even now.
The ardor of more than half of our volunteer allies was quenched by the downpour and the turmoil of the elements.
So soon he fell, the world will never know What possibilities within him lay, What hopes irradiated his young life, With high ambition and with ardor rife; But ah!
The more prudent rulers of the church found themselves obliged to restrain the indiscreet ardor of their followers, and to distrust a constancy which too often abandoned them in the hour of trial.
In his march from Autun, through the heart of the Gallic provinces, Julian embraced with ardor the earliest opportunity of signalizing his courage.
The bishops of the contending factions maintained, with equal ardor and obstinacy, that their adversaries were degraded, or at least dishonored, by the odious crime of delivering the Holy Scriptures to the officers of Diocletian.
The fierce Chnodomar, shaking the ponderous javelin which he had victoriously wielded against the brother of Magnentius, led the van of the Barbarians, and moderated by his experience the martial ardor which his example inspired.
The ardor of Damasus and Ursinus, to seize the episcopal seat, surpassed the ordinary measure of human ambition.
Graceful had seen his grandmother smiling on him in his dreams, and he set out on his way with even greater ardor than the day before.
They had still to journey over a painful and dangerous road for those who no longer had the ardor of the morning.
At last, the piper having struck up a polka, the black men, in a transport of mirth, quitted the table and danced and waltzed with an ardor and frenzy which ill accorded with their icy faces.
And the driver lashed his horses, and every man seemed to press forward with increased ardor to fly to the succor.
He was passing over the Marshall property at the time, the inheritance of Emily's mother, and the thought of all that she was heir to cooled his ardorwith doubt and apprehension.
I always excuse the man for taking a gloomy view of life, and for saying over with ardor and vehemence his entire reserve stock of objurgations as he shins up the tree.
Illustration] [Illustration] A joint high commission which would devote itself with philanthropic ardor and untiring energy to a dispassionate consideration of the subject of the immortality of eels might, perhaps, achieve important results.
He was a young man of good family, and handsome exterior, and though Annie did not love him with the ardor of a first love, still she respected his character, and admired his virtues.
He also divested military science of many pedantic terms, which tend only to confuse the young conscript, and dampen the military ardor of the patriot soldier.
Bowing their heads to avoid the swaying branches, they bent over their horses' necks in the intenseardor of pursuit.
His musical criticisms are refined and acute, but without repulsive technicalities or scientific terms, ever sparkling with the poetic ardor of the generous soul through which the discriminating, yet appreciative awards were poured.
In the country where the Mazourka reigns from the palace to the cottage, these gradations are pursued, for a longer or shorter time, with as much ardor and enthusiasm as malicious trifling.
He was a Prince of rare intelligence, of great activity, of eminent faculties, through whose veins the young blood circulated with the glittering ardor of a subtle gas.
I will not say, great Emperor, that I have not in my ardor made broader the statements which I have received from others.
It is only in the public assembly, and in the ardor of debate, that love seems cold and dead.
