This was a circumstance which I could not but hail, as highly encouraging in the attempt to better the condition of the native Indians, and likely to remove many of the evils that prevailed during the ardour of opposition.
May my days be spent with renewed ardour and watchfulness in my Christian profession; never yielding to supineness and discouragements in my Ministerial labours, and toils in the wilderness.
After having made a practicable breach, it was resolved to storm the place upon the 6th of October, and it was executed with that bold ardour which is the native birth-right of Englishmen.
A general ardour pervaded all to close with the enemy, whose numbers could only be gradually perceived as they stretched out from the land.
Nor was his conjugal fidelity less remarkable than the ardour of his passion.
All the ardour that the love of his country could awaken conspired to stimulate the natural turn of his genius for the improvement of navigation.
The ardour of the volunteer, an ardourunknown to the slave and the mercenary, added to the most romantic ideas of military glory, characterized the Portuguese under the reigns of their first monarchs.
Camoens enjoyed an opportunity of declaring his affection, with all the romantic ardour of eighteen and of a poet.
For her, each goddess of the heavens I scorn'd, For her alone my fervent ardour burn'd.
She was thus in no mood to leave her Queendom for the arms of her husband, whose unattractive person and clumsy ardour only repelled her.
The beauty, of whom he had hoped to make an easy conquest, was an iceberg whom all his ardour could not thaw.
Winthrop wrought early and late, and threw himself into the gap with a desperate ardour that meant -- his mother knew what.
Those whom he shook with ardour by the hand, By whom he stood as long as he could stand, Who seem'd to him from all deception clear, 140 And who, more strange!
Hence the anxiety to keep him from annoyance showed not quite the ardour that would have animated it in former days.
He had done it in an ardour and an agitation which had half carried the point of affection with her; yet, behold, from the next morning onwards his manner was constrained as she had never seen it before.
His ebbing spirit was revived by the shock of an ardour like his own.
He loved the work itself as much as he hated the conditions under which it was done; and he longed to see on the operatives' faces something of the ardour that lit up his own when he entered the work-rooms.
Westy gallantly protested, his ardour kindling as she swam once more within his social ken.
It was thus that she had known him in the hospital, in the heat of his youthful zeal: the doctor she liked best to work with, because no other so tempered ardour with judgment.
She broke off, as though the encounter had checked her ardour instead of kindling it; but he drew no discouragement from her tone.
In the case of the other passions, the sight of the object, the hope of enjoying it, and the ardour of the will take us captive.
More often the book-lover becomes a recluse, and the lover of his fellow-men loses his ardour for study.
That Cabinet is actuated by a propagandist spirit, and labours to spread servitude and barbarism with an ardour such as no other Government ever showed in the cause of freedom and civilisation.
But Sir Bevil, reading the ardour of the wish in the honest face, pronounced the expedition an excellent idea, and carried her off with her eyes as round and sparkling as those of the children going to Christmas parties.
The Inquisition, which had been especially maltreated in these designs, became once more threatening, and showed an implacable ardour in its quest for vengeance.
The smouldering ardour of its style, which a chastened judgement rejected, was perhaps less faulty than its author believed it to be in later years.
It was now that, while the military ardour of the company augmented with each flagon which they emptied, Cunningham called on them to drink the speedy hoisting of the Oriflamme, the royal banner of France.
The precocious eloquence and ardourof these early works made him famous before his time.
The severity of the forest laws which prevailed during the Norman period is sufficient evidence of the sporting ardour of William and his successors.
The Governor of the Bastille, some months before, would have saluted me with his artillery; perhaps he still received me with a certain ceremony, but without putting any ardour into his politeness, or drawing too much upon himself.
Out of affection and respect for the Queen-mother, the King had until then sought to conceal the ardour of his attachment for Mademoiselle de la Valliere.
Suffice it to add that he fell a victim to the intense ardour with which he pursued the antiquarian researches that he loved.
There had been nothing like it in its ardour of hope, in the glory which it threw around the investigation of nature.
For in that Court all the qualities in him which needed control received daily stimulus, and his ardour and high-aiming temper turned into impatience and restless irritability.
She avoided meeting his eyes--those eyes said to hold something in their expression which redeemed his face from the commonplace--and the wild ardour of their gaze was lost upon her.
With a kind of discreet reluctance the door closed again, and Sir Francis, with the impatience of a lover whose ardour has received a momentary check, took the girl into his arms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ardour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
