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Example sentences for "fervent"

Lexicographically close words:
feruent; ferule; ferunt; ferus; fervency; fervently; fervet; fervid; fervidly; fervor
  1. Francis had already received the stigmata; her other visions were such as had been granted to all fervent mystics; they were the growth of current religious ideas and unbounded faith.

  2. But from her eyes celestial forth did break Favour at parting; and I well could see Young love confusedly Enclosed within the furtive fervent gaze, Heating his arrows at their beauteous rays, For war with Pallas and with Dian cold.

  3. The simplicity, freedom from self-consciousness, and fervent faith in the reality of all she did and said and saw, which they exhibit, convince us of her entire sincerity.

  4. But in order to correct their vices there are fervent and zealous ministers in all parts, who preach to and teach them.

  5. In Manila, as I know by experience, they confess as well as the most fervent Spaniard, and I have heard many fathers say the same of many Indians of the provinces.

  6. Mr. Vincent stood as if suspended between ecstasy and despair: he dared not trust his senses: with a fervent and solemn adjuration he made the vow that was required of him; and Clarence then revealed to him the secret of the E O table.

  7. She paused, and looked up towards heaven with an expression of fervent devotion, which Belinda had once, and but once, before seen in her countenance.

  8. As he contemplated her delicately fervent face, her tapering, graceful body, wrapped like something very precious in pale gold, his eyes glittered with tears.

  9. Hawes, of Hartford, led them in fervent prayer, acknowledging the great event as from the hand of God, and as calculated to hasten the triumphs of civilization and Christianity.

  10. Miss Dora's breakfast was affected by it in a way which did not appear in the morning meal of her sister; for somehow the most fervent love of souls seldom takes away the appetite, as the love of some unlucky individual occasionally does.

  11. My father would have promised anything with that wasted hand on his, those fervent eyes gazing on him, and he told her he would have given his pardon long ago, if it had been sought, as it never had been.

  12. However, Clarence had been the recipient of all the poor lad's fervent feelings for Miss Winslow, how she had been a new revelation to his desolate spirit, and was to be the guiding star of his life, etc.

  13. And here she clasped her hands together with the most fervent petition, in the dread of what might happen.

  14. In another group the deacon from Antioch, Aetius, a bold and fervent disciple of Arius, regarded as an atheist for his audacious and scoffing interpretations of the Trinity, was holding forth.

  15. Then the chief priest picks up his rattle and begins a prayer which is as fervent as one could desire.

  16. His harangue on this occasion was an unusually fervent oration, especially cutting to Hotouta, for he was one of the chief objects of the "evangelist's" vituperation and abuse.

  17. Numa Pompilius, ever true to the good cause, fervent in action, lucid in counsel, pitiless in execution, and fearless in peril.

  18. But down in his underground asylum the old headsman sang from the depths of a fervent heart: "To thee, O Lord!

  19. One day when the people were assembled, he preached a fervent sermon, censuring the resistance of some obstinate infidels.

  20. At the entrance of that Lady, and the fervent prayer of the dean, he suddenly became well and completely cured.

  21. They extend their fervent tasks to the province of Caraga, in Mindanao.

  22. Thereupon the fervent missionary took occasion to make them understand their blindness, and to persuade them of the offense which was committed against the true God in worshiping the devil.

  23. She made answer that she would, and then he clasped both her hands in a fervent grasp.

  24. Only four more days till our ball,' said Laurette, who in her heart had ejaculated a fervent little thanksgiving to Providence at sight of Stella entering the breakfast-room.

  25. Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves.

  26. Looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

  27. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

  28. Devoted attachment to her sisters, and a fervent love of all beautiful things in nature, were its pure affections.

  29. Though by nature a dig, as my sister's flower-beds too often testified, not her most fervent remonstrances could convince him that bulbs and bones should not be planted together.

  30. Nor did she speak, but such pure and fervent gratitude and joy shone from her glistening eyes that Orion felt his own grow moist.

  31. Be sure it is, that jealousy proceeds of fervent love.

  32. Most fervent love, where so much love doth make the fancy blind.

  33. Can that be fervent love, wherein suspicion leads the mind?

  34. With a fervent "damn" he tumbled them under a cedar, and trotted back into the forest for another load.

  35. August Naab's prayers were more fervent than ever, and he even prayed for the soul of the man who had robbed him.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fervent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; ablaze; afire; animated; ardent; assiduous; blazing; boiling; breathless; burning; committed; cordial; dedicated; deep; delirious; devoted; devout; diligent; drunk; eager; earnest; eloquent; emotional; emphatic; energetic; enthusiastic; erotic; excited; exciting; exuberant; faithful; fanatical; febrile; fervent; fervid; feverish; fiery; fire; flaming; flushed; glowing; hard; hardworking; heartfelt; hearty; heated; hectic; hot; impassioned; indefatigable; industrious; inflammatory; intense; intent; intoxicated; keen; laborious; lively; loving; loyal; mad; overheated; passionate; perfervid; provoking; relentless; resolute; rousing; sedulous; seething; serious; sincere; sleepless; soulful; spirited; steaming; steamy; stimulating; stirring; strong; tireless; torrid; unflagging; unremitting; unrestrained; unsparing; unwearied; urgent; vehement; vigorous; voracious; warm; wholehearted; zealous


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fervent heat; fervent prayer