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When this prayer has become fervent and effectual, the result will be money, which, we assert again, is our present great need.
Dissimulation and Treachery stirred them to a fine contempt: Fervent lips and a wicked heart are an earthen vessel plated with silver.
Such was the fervent ejaculation of my lips; such, in spite of its seeming inconsistency, was the real belief within my soul.
Possibly she was astonished by the sudden, impulsive kiss that Anne bestowed upon her, and the more fervent embrace that followed.
Columbus was as much misled by his own fervent imagination as by not comprehending the accounts given him by the natives.
His sublime appeals, and fervent prayers, and holy musings, were to support, and console, and sustain till the end of time.
This lady was a fervent admirer of the knightly gentleman, and had reason to like him, for he had once been her champion.
Into her ear he poured forth the long hidden, but still fervent love that even his belief in her estrangement could never subdue.
Soon after their departure, when the faithful and fervent people might freely crowd the chapel and pray, the liquefaction would occur.
While Mohammed thus threatened the capital of the East the Emperor implored with fervent prayers the assistance of earth and heaven.
For they are really well adapted to answer important moral and doctrinal purposes, and to fill the mind with fervent piety.
He was considerably her junior, and looked up to her as something superior to human nature, and entitled to his most fervent admiration.
Gladstone's strongest utterances were seized upon by his fervent admirers and were carried to an extreme from which he himself would have shrunk.
What fervent prayers were offered for the dutiful and self-sacrificing wife as she tried to win a smile from the patient invalid.
For many years the poor penitent remained in the cloister trying to atone for his crime with fervent prayers and hard penance.
Brown and his men were 'incarnate earnestness,' says one writer, and it was that fervent devotion which made all that followed possible.
He had gone to the farm with Howells on his political conscience and had written fervent and imploring letters on the subject.
The Temple was still shut, or virtually shut, but the synagogues were open, and were indeed frequented by throngs of fervent worshipers.
He held her in his arms, pressed her close to him, and kissed her brow, with a whispered exclamation of fervent thankfulness.
The whole nature of the woman, her transparent truthfulness, her fervent piety, rise up in witness against this charge, and condemn it.
He had control over a vast fortune, for he exercised despotic rule over his wife's peasant father, the most fervent of his admirers.
Certain nuances of soul are characteristic of certain latitudes, and what subtle instinct led him to Norway in quest of this fervent soul?
He could hardly speak in public without an allusion to the grandeur of American nationality, and a fervent appeal to keep it sacred and intact.
The time spent bobbing upon the waters while with fervent ejaculations the engineer experimented with the frivolous gasoline engine had been ecstatically cool.
It is of an order worthy to stand with that of Adam, or of Eve, or of Abel; fervent, strong, unquestioning, and full of liberty.
In fervent supplication I bowed repeatedly, and, raising my voice until it sounded distinct on the still air, invoked the blessing of Allah.
In fervent supplication he bowed repeatedly, and, raising his voice until it sounded distinct on the still air, invoked the blessing of Allah.
Evidently the brethren viewed Paul's conduct with approbation, and accompanied him therefore with fervent supplications for success in his self-denying labors.
The previous musing has been long, the fire has burned slowly; but at last all is molten, and rushes out, fluent because fervent.
"Yes, you are the young gentleman who some few days ago received the fervent thanks of a lonely woman for his chivalrous kindness."
He expresses the strongest wish to see them always united among themselves, and fervent in the observance of the precepts of the law.
And it was only then that the boy perceived the foolishness altogether of that fervent resolution of his to leave no stone unturned.
I tried to shrink up smaller inside my clothes, and I registered a fervent though silent hope that it had not popped on me.
Nor need we conclude that, as a general rule, the most fervent of those laments or the most positive of those statements were exaggerated.
If the chain of evidence was not complete, the violent racial animosities then prevalent molded the missing links in the fervent heat of imagination.
They were generally in a woeful condition, and the young prince undertook to bring their misfortunes and their fervent wishes before his father.
Moreover, he had a fervent pride in his craft; and you might deduce from his performance the whole theory and practice of burglary.
He concluded with a lowly uttered fervent prayer in his own tongue, and a benediction which all present felt to be very real.
Jane's emotions were mixed and tumultuous as she listened to his fervent expressions; she reproached herself with ingratitude in not returning his love.
Had I, a boy, unused to controversy, unskilled in dialectics, overthrown with my hasty words the faith of this strong and fervent man?
Fervent prayers on bended knees, mingled, morning and evening, with the voices of ocean, and the sighing of the wind in her shrouds.
Fervent prayers on bended knees mingled, morning and evening, with the voices of ocean, and the sighing of the wind in her shrouds.
By them, laudable curiosity is awakened, and the impression, especially on the fervent and plastic minds of young people, is deep and lasting.
With a fervent prayer the pilgrim entered boldly, advanced towards the east, then moved fifty steps backwards, and began his devotions.
Making a profound reverence to the king, Jane then retired, exclaiming in fervent tones, as she quitted the room: "Heaven preserve your majesty!"
"I certainly have not either, living here like a snail in its shell," said Dame Joanna, fixing her bright eyes on Paula with fervent admiration.
Gerald was in clover and expressed fervent hopes that the right person would continue to elude his father; only he expressed it differently.
If it were only that it told him sorrowfully the value of what he had lost, he thanked Heaven for it with a fervent gratitude.
He entreated her permission to wait upon her for only five minutes, and concluded with the most fervent professions of respect and admiration.
Fervent were the kisses pressed by the kingly lips upon the duke's cheeks, while Louis's arm rested lovingly about the latter's neck.
It is situated in the lap of a delightful valley, surrounded by a coronet of mountains which Ceres and Bacchus adorn with fervent zeal.
This broad expanse of cool, refreshing water could not burn up, no matter how fervent the heat that might envelop its shores.
They had learned there to practice a complete abnegation, and to give to the faithful the example of a united and fervent clerical family.
Furthermore, charity is essentially a virtue ordained to act, so that an essential increase of charity implies ability to produce an act of more fervent love.
The more passionately she spoke, the more rapid and fervent her utterance, the more fretful and irritated did the old man become.
Uttering this fervent ejaculation he joined his companions, who now held a consultation as to the most judicious plan of removing the wounded youth.
With tenfold increase blessing, Spring adorned the beauty-burdened spray; Wind and rain and fervent heat, caressing, Lavished glory on that second May!
In a few cases remarkable incidents have produced a cure, such as the sudden clanking of chains, or a peculiarly fervent and impressive prayer.
This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own.
And, sliding to the ground, she knelt piously, and, with clasped hands, murmured a fervent prayer, while her eyes filled with tears.
Further, there can be no doubt that David's fervent piety was disliked by many, and his puritan methods of governing the kingdom.
Fervent prayers were offered, exhortations and tears, invitation hymns were sung (the organ was forgotten), and all the congregation was deeply stirred.
Fervent were the invocations and the hopeful news of the following days seemed to portend a favorable answer to the prayers of a nation.
It bounds with fervent flashes of elasticity from the glossy leaves of the bushes that have waded out farthest and made islands of themselves.
In the New Testament we have the terms striving, laboring fervently, fervent, effectual, agony, all indicating intense effort put forth, difficulties overcome.
The sun had set when she returned, in the company of this servant, through meadows reeking with exhalations after a fervent day.
This last day seemed likely to be a very fervent one, for he already felt a tremor of exalted faith rising among the crowd.
Grey bowed his head on his hand, and solemnly and impressively asked a blessing, and offered up fervent thanks for the family reunion.
He is an enthusiastic humanist, a fervent Neo-Hellenist, delicately sensitive to the beauty of the antique, the magic of words, and the harmony of phrase.
Its spires and domes no longer flashed in fervent radiance to the sun: the face of heaven was obscured with a cold and leaden hue.
Age and infirmities overtook him and his adventurous existence terminated in misery, November 3, 1611, when he manifested every sign of fervent Catholicism.
Except the few hours of refreshment actually required by nature, every moment was devoted to the most intense application, or to fervent prayer.
Draperies arranged by him are shutting out the cold air from northern firesides, and excluding the already fervent glow of a southern sun.
Such is human devotion: the voice of distress is far more fervent than the voice of worship; the weak and sorrowful are the true suppliants.
Impulsively I plucked the gorgeous witch flowers, and with fervent message sent them to the fairest, most beautiful woman in all the world.
These letters breathe wisdom and virtue, with incitement to all worthy aims, no less than strong mental companionship and fervent maternal sympathy.
She joined me in my fervent aspirations; and, with the tears of repentance flowing down our cheeks, we remained some time in the attitude of supplication.
As he contemplated her delicately fervent face, her tapering, graceful body, wrapped like something very precious in pale gold, his eyes glittered with tears.
A glimpse of the passing American General was sufficient to deepen this appeal and the cheers that greeted the Americans were fervent and heartfelt.
And yet, as she sealed and directed her own letter, she breathed again a fervent thanksgiving that Amanda was safely out of the way.
Verily, as a rule the mind of fools becomes inflamed the more by the praise of the object which has excited their fervent wrath.
The slightest modification seemed to him a grave fault which he did not even forgive his intimate friends, his fervent admirers, Liszt not excepted.
Eighteen years ago she had sat behind it one spring twilight and heard young Martin Crawford stammer out a confession of fervent, boyish love.
At last, with a broken bough, he brushed the fire aside and thrust the bear strips upon the stones, almost covered with fervent cinders.
It could not then have been known how the fervent testimonies of either the Prophet or his followers would have withstood trial and tribulation.
Like his other works, it shows marks of haste and carelessness, but its value is great, notwithstanding his too fervent zeal for the Indians.
Then I pour out my whole heart - I who was never a good speaker - in lucid, fervent, flowing language, thanking, asking, praising.
Slowly the dream of love breathes again, rises to a fervent burst, then yields to the fateful chant and ends in a whisper of farewell.
He is a fervent instructor, to whom an indifferent scholar is a fascinating problem, and a pupil who "cannot understand mathematics" offers a new adventure.
In 1824 Sydney Smith broke his long silence as an author, with the fervent pamphlet "The Judge that Smites Contrary to the Law."
It may safely be asserted that his feelings were strong, his affections warm, his partisanship fervent, and his organ of humor decidedly developed.
He had foiled them by opening their camera and blotting the film with sunlight, and had then sent them away with fervent words.
His mother was a woman of most fervent piety, who, in almost unceasing prayer, sought and found consolation under her many severe afflictions.
She did all in her power to inflame her imagination and to see in her husband a hero worthy of inspiring the most fervent love.
The girl leaned forward, and was again about to embrace her hostess with fervent arms, but suddenly paused to exclaim, "I think I hear wheels!"
Its elements will melt with fervent heat; it will die and be resurrected, or converted into a celestial sphere, an abode of the righteous forever.
In a lethal embrace, in an act of unprecedented intercourse, literature penetrated reality as only the most fervent lovers or the most avid haters do.
Fervent believers look for some system of philosophy or religion that shall be literally true and worthy of superseding the current assumptions of daily life.
He never warms among them into that fervent glow of affectionate appreciation which kindles within him in sight of the landscapes of his native Border.
Finding herself once more alone, Imogene, assuming an attitude of prayer, poured out her soul in fervent thanksgiving to Him who is the dispenser of all blessings.