Yet such was his immense vitality that he muttered, clutching at his throat--staving off dissolution with the mighty passionate vehemence of some dominating purpose.
They wore wide-brimmed hats, and cursed or spat with a fervor and vehemence that indicated enjoyment.
He ran to the gate of the garden and began beating and kicking upon it with a vehemence that he could neither master nor control.
Graham told me he met him at a great dinner of diplomats and politicians at Aberdeen's last Wednesday, when he talked to him with much vehemence and in a very menacing tone.
Guizot's vehemence (for he spoke much more strongly than the King) ought to have alarmed Palmerston.
The failure of bodily activity seemed to have doubled his moral vigour, and the walls shook with the vehemence of his commands.
She paused, flushed with the vehemence of her argument, and eager to press it farther.
Cleek cried with such vehemence that it startled her.
It is impossible to express the mingled tenderness and vehemence with which she uttered these words.
The maiden, frighted by the vehemenceof her grief, endeavoured to soothe her, by pressing her hand to her bosom and forehead, and covering it with kisses and tears; after which she stole quietly from the chamber.
The vehemence with which I had rejected its divine bidding should at least be correspondent with my adoration of it.
Again he looked at me; but all that vehemence and loftiness of spirit which had so lately characterized his features were flown.
The half-pay officer was silenced; but the indignation thus pent up in his bosom glowed with intense vehemence in his single eye, which kindled like a coal.
My frame shook with the vehemence of my apprehensions.
His elocution was less sweet than sonorous, and, therefore, better adapted than the mellifluences of his friend to the outrageous vehemence of this drama.
I was conscious only of the vehemence of my sensations.
And as he protested with vehemence against this unscrupulous bad faith she added: "You'll find other models.
Her vehemencehad brought with it tears; she dried them as she disengaged herself.
The vicar made a gesture of denial, and looked at Pepita with something like terror in his gaze; for he knew nothing of all that had taken place, and was struck by the vehemence with which she spoke.
If there is anything in me of the ardor of youth, and the vehemence of the passions proper to that age, it shall all be employed in nourishing an active and fecund charity.
Her anger was directed with almost equal vehemenceagainst Mr. Reeve for his having published "such an abominable book," and she charged Sir Arthur Helps to convey to him her deep displeasure.
Victoria, her partisan passions thoroughly aroused, imported into her protests a personal vehemence which those of Albert lacked.
In his absence, she talked of him perpetually, and there was a note of unusualvehemence in her solicitude for his health.
She was not given to vehemence of demonstration; the little gesture showed a concentration of bitter rebellion.
Carlyle had more than the shortcomings of a Cato; he had all the inconsistent vehemence of an imperfectly balanced mind; but he had a far wider range and deeper sympathies.
Think ye, O poets, that with your words you could rouse a man to like vehemence of desire?
Discussing matters which admit not of proof, it is impossible for men to agree; the less so if they would make up for the lack of proof by vehemence of clamour.
And the doctor spoke in English and with so much vehemence about England's evil deeds against Spain that the impressionable sailor ended by saying spontaneously: "May God punish her!
Commiseration had finally developed the vehemenceof a love affair.
He did not know how to express himself properly, but the very possibility that his beloved sea might witness such crimes gave new vehemence to his indignation.
Then they began to discuss among themselves with a vehemencewhich made it easy to guess their words.
The bloodthirsty vehemence of the Mediterranean was overwhelming him.
But this defect increasing gradually, from having been checked for some time, presently broke out more unrestrained to the ruin of many persons; and his severity was increased by the vehemence of his anger.
Through all his mania Rorke began dimly to realise that there was a trifle less crushing vehemence in his own punches and less whirlwind speed in his onslaught.
The man shook off the child's convulsive hold with a vehemence that sent her flat in the dust of the road.
The mixture, and the vehemence of the mixture, were not in his line.
Fleda was startled by the vehemence with which her uncle said, "No, never!
