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Example sentences for "vehement"

Lexicographically close words:
vegetative; veggio; veguer; vehemence; vehemency; vehementer; vehemently; vehicle; vehicles; vehicular
  1. This vehement expansion of sentiments frequently opposes his reason, and transforms his real existence into a perpetual vision.

  2. There was in that monastery a monk, who, for many years prior to his entering on a monastic life, had encouraged a vehement passion for one of the principal ladies of the city.

  3. Even the bitter and vehement Delamere was softened.

  4. Through the latter part of July and the whole of August the preparations went on rapidly, yet too slowly for the vehement spirit of William.

  5. Johnson wrote a succession of bitter and vehement treatises which Speke conveyed to the printer.

  6. One class consisted of eager and vehement Whigs, who, if they had been able to take their own course, would have given to the proceedings of the Convention a decidedly revolutionary character.

  7. Public feeling did not then manifest itself by those signs with which we are familiar, by large meetings, and by vehement harangues.

  8. It is a remarkable fact that the chief of this party was a peer who had been a vehement Tory, and who afterwards died a Nonjuror, Clarendon.

  9. Your vehement loves and hates, your ecstasies and your despondencies; your disposition to throw yourself headlong into whatever interests you.

  10. No man of my vehement nature could have borne with me as Ernest has done, and if he had married a woman as calm, as undemonstrative as himself what a strange home his would have been for the nurture of little children?

  11. There is a certain coarseness of materialism about Tyndall; there is a vehement and almost an arrogant aggressiveness in him which must interfere with the clearness of his views.

  12. He had been conspicuous in Congress as the most vehement and violent opponent of every measure for the prosecution of the war.

  13. But General McClellan was not nominated without a vehement protest.

  14. It was chiefly devoted to a vehement attack upon Mr. Lincoln's Administration, which was charged with incapacity and with infidelity to the principles it was pledged to maintain.

  15. In England there was an equally vehement demand for immediate and signal reparation.

  16. His language often settles into clear and most beautiful prose, often takes an imperfect and incoherent shape of poetry, and often, cloud against cloud, bursts with a vehement detonation in the air.

  17. Philosophy has now discovered that when they roll in mud and ordure, it is only from an excessive love of cleanliness, and a vehement desire to rid themselves of scabs and vermin.

  18. And he poured forth a vehement invective against idolatry.

  19. A vehement craving after solitude and rest drew me into the desert; I could think and look to nothing else.

  20. His vehement opposition to the Augsburg Interim (1548) led him to take temporary shelter at Rudolstadt with Catherine, countess of Schwarzburg.

  21. Essays and Reviews (1860) was a vehement announcement of scientific results--startling English conservatism awake for the first time.

  22. His persecution would have been almost as vehement as that of Constantine Copronymus, but for the fact that he did not ever inflict the punishment of death; branding and mutilation however he did not disdain.

  23. He was succeeded by his son Theophilus, a vehement Iconoclast, whose persecuting tendencies had been with difficulty restrained in his father's life-time.

  24. Wright was an unimpassioned man, little given to excitement, but this scene threw him into a vehement state.

  25. Benton lived to condemn the great tribunal for this decision in most vehement terms.

  26. A natural impediment in his speech, affecting him most when excited, caused some delay in his first vehement utterance.

  27. Some of the clergy of the established church were vehement in their opposition to Davies and Rodgers.

  28. Their preachers, not unfrequently illiterate, were characterized by an impassioned manner, vehement gesticulation, and a singular tone of voice.

  29. Whereupon Harry Esmond, filled with alarm for the consequences to which this disastrous dispute might lead, broke out into the most vehement expostulations with his patron and his adversary.

  30. On the great tiers of seats a murmur arose, the noise of vehement conversation.

  31. Carmen was more vehement in her petitions.

  32. And the vehement adherents of the idol, proud of his audacity and carried away by their own feelings, became indignant like the believer who sees the miracles of his favorite saint held in doubt.

  33. No vehement resolutions, no sense of his own sinfulness, nor even contrite remembrance of past failures, ever yet made a man strong.

  34. Unless He has kept our feet from being straitened in the quiet walk, He will not be able to keep us from stumbling in the vehement run.

  35. The vehement questions poured out on each other's heels in verse 29 are hot with both loathing and grim laughter.

  36. Sometimes the craving is so vehement that if we could not get this thing that we want without putting our hands through the sulphurous smoke of the bottomless pit, we should thrust them out to grasp it.

  37. And in no part of the Continent, his vehement declaration assured the ladies, had he found a single one.

  38. Still more vehement and more proud than the Parliamentarians, the states of Brittany, cited to elect the deputies indicated by the governor, had refused any subsidy.

  39. Robinson and Hyndford found in him no want of vehement seriousness, but rather the reverse!

  40. A most vehement young King; no negotiating with him, Sir Thomas!

  41. Oh, she told me, with a vehement burst of tears, that she was convinced I did not love her, and that a hundred pounds a month was not sufficient to maintain a milliner's apprentice.

  42. Solomon sang that "jealousy is as cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

  43. There was quite disparity enough in point of years, and indeed of habits, between the young lady and Captain Barton, to have precluded anything like very vehement or romantic attachment on her part.

  44. As Barton continued, his agitation became so vehement that the divine was shocked and even alarmed.

  45. His character and life were singularly calculated to make such a narrative interesting, for never was one more completely tossed about by vehement passions, and abounding with melodramatic incidents.

  46. It could have been written by no one but himself; for an ordinary biographer would only have described the incidents of his life, none else could have painted the vehement passions, the ardent aspirations, from which they sprang.

  47. Lady Dacre saw much trouble in store for me in my intemperate expression of feeling on the subject of slavery in America, and repeatedly warned me with affectionate solicitude to moderate, if not my opinions, the vehement proclamation of them.


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