Now that my fate is decided, I will say that really my passion for Mr. Clifford is on the wane, but I don't know whether the improvement is permanent or not.
At home I thought for a time that I was cured, but I was mistaken, and after seeing Clifford last Thursday I have grown worse than ever so far as my passion for him is concerned.
Having nopassion for women, it was easy to avoid them.
In 1873 there was a passion for rabbits, certain varieties of which were then for the first time introduced into Japan.
Instigated by a passion for truth, he exclaims in his first satire,-- "Truth!
A young cousin of his died, and of her death he spoke to this effect in his memorandum:-- "My first recourse to poetry was due to my passion for my cousin Margaret Parker.
A passion for card-playing is called forth, developed, and must be satisfied, even though it takes one in low places among vile associates.
The person who has acquired a passion for betting on races and games is on a fair way to professional gambling and to speculating on the markets.
She had, however, a passion for music, and had some taste for singing.
He was an earnest, clever man, a scientist with a passion for sociology.
And her breast was keen with passion for him, he was so beautiful in his male stillness and mystery.
Emily is to superintend the dairy and garden; she has a passion for flowers, with which I am extremely pleased, as it will be to her a continual source of pleasure.
My passion for him is the first and shall be the last of my life: my bosom never heaved a sigh but for my Rivers.
By fits and starts; my passion for it comes in with the early strawberries, and goes out with the hautboys.
The love of posthumous fame--what is it but as puerile a passion for notoriety as that which made a Frenchman I once knew lay out two thousand pounds in sugar-plums?
He was not swayed by a passion for glory, for he did not pursue it steadily,--nor by a passion for power, for he quarrelled with the only man by whose aid he could have maintained it.
With my passion for perfumes, this, however, did not appear to me so certain; but the room I now have answers my purpose quite well enough.
Harriet, you certainly have a passion for writing, for in your last you have repeated every word I said about my brother John, just as if you had invented it yourself.
She had a passion for splendour, which, though ever regulated by a fine perception of the fitness of things, was still costly.
Lady Roehampton had a passion for light, provided the light was not supplied by gas or oil.
We had occasion in writing of Balzac in these pages more than a year ago[2] to say that his great characteristic, far from being a passion for ideas, was a passion for things.
Readers of the "Comedie Humaine" have no need to be reminded of the author's passion for furniture; nowhere else are there such loving or such invidious descriptions of it.
The daughter of the hot-blooded Peter and the lusty scullery wench had always as great a passion for men as the second Catherine, who had almost as many favourites in her boudoir as gowns in her wardrobes.
My interview with the Registrar, my talk with my uncle, my abrupt discovery of the hopeless futility of my passion for Marion, had combined to bring me to sense of crisis.
His people had taken him about in his youth as the Ruskins took their John and fostered a passion for history in him, and the actual management of the Moggs' industry had devolved upon a cousin and a junior partner.
I had lived out my first rush of passion for Effie, had come to a contemplation of my position.
He had a few years before let them his castle of Margency, near Eaubonne and Andilly, and they resided there precisely at the time of my passion for Madam d'Houdetot.
Finally, ill cured perhaps of my passion for Madam de Houdetot, I felt nothing could replace it in my heart, and I bade adieu to love for the rest of my life.
Let us drop this discourse, and talk of something else; I am not so easily pacified, not I; I am in too great a passion for that.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passion for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
