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Example sentences for "violent passion"

  • When I had done speaking, your brother got up in a violent passion, to which he seemed to have been working himself up during the time I took to explain myself.

  • And the gentleman, in a violent passion, flung out of the room, without deigning even to take up the letter which had fallen on the floor.

  • I soon found that I had made use of a wrong argument, which put my friend into a violent passion.

  • She only makes an errand to come hither, because you have inspired her with a violent passion.

  • Now, any monarch but Schahzaman would have been in a violent passion at such deportment of a son; but he took little notice of it, resolving to use all gentle methods before he proceeded to force.

  • The jeweller needed no more to convince him fully of the prince of Persia's violent passion, which Ebn Thaher had told him: mere friendship would not let him speak so; nothing but love could produce such feeling expressions.

  • This confession threw him in a violent passion; he called me a rascal, said that those things did not belong to me, that he knew what he had to do, and he commanded me to leave his house on the very instant.

  • I flew into a violent passion, but I was wrong, for the poor girl had acted with a good intent; her judgment alone had misled her.

  • Such an answer, coupled to a most unexpected notice to quit, threw me into a violent passion.

  • She only makes this her presence to come here, because you have inspired her with a violent passion.

  • This account put my husband into a violent passion.

  • The jeweller needed no more to convince him fully of the prince of Persia's violent passion, which Ebn Thaher had told him of: mere friendship would not make him speak so; nothing but love could produce such lively sensations.

  • What you say," said he, "is of so much importance, that I cannot understand how Schemselnihar and the prince could have abandoned themselves to such a violent passion.

  • In a violent passion he immediately went to the Grayhound, where he now spent not only every evening, which he had long done, but good part of the day and night also.

  • John, with a shocking oath, abused them both, and went off in a violent passion.

  • A spot on her hearth, or a bit of rust on a brass candlestick, would throw her into a violent passion.

  • When I receive any injury from another, I often feel a violent passion of resentment, which makes me desire his evil and punishment, independent of all considerations of pleasure and advantage to myself.

  • Men often counter-act a violent passion in prosecution of their interests and designs: It is not therefore the present uneasiness alone, which determines them.

  • This action of Noureddin's put the vizier Saouy into a violent passion.

  • At this discourse of my brother's, I fell into a violent passion.

  • She began to relate the whole story of what had befallen her since her quitting the sea, in a violent passion, for the earth.

  • This put me again into a violent passion, which occasioned him to speak several bitter reflecting things that nettled me to the quick.

  • Otamus rises in a violent passion, and draws his sword; Zadig leaps from his horse with his sabre in his hand.

  • Their mistake at first threw the king into a violent passion; but having viewed this woman more attentively, he found her extremely handsome, and was comforted.

  • The Egyptian seemed to be in a violent passion.

  • As I could hardly credit the reality of this yawning gesture, Mr. Bartlett insulted an old baboon and put him into a violent passion; and he almost immediately thus acted.

  • As he was mentioning this to me, another monkey attacked a rhesus, and I saw its face redden as plainly as that of a man in a violent passion.

  • A young female chimpanzee, in a violent passion, presented a curious resemblance to a child in the same state.


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