Word: ardor
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...tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid. It is in the retailing of these experiences that Mrs. Woodward can lay a claim to the attention of people generally. Her book is written with a certain ardor which seems to go always with some carelessness of phrase and structure. Her training moreover, having been that of a copywriter, leads to some boldness of diction. Yet here poignant portrayals are well worth the leisure of a sympathetic mind
...part of the soldier De Laubry, saved from execution by the intervention of du Barry, M. Rolla Norman is often more convincing than Sorel, but it is she who seems to lend fire to his lovemaking, aiding him to reach heights of ardor which she herself does not attain...
...augury of what was to come developed in the informal touch-football league in which groups of friends formed teams and competed for the league crown with all the ardor of championship contenders. Last Sunday's snow storm put an untimely end to all further thought of football, but Mr. Bingham and his aides have plans already formulated for carrying the enthusiasm developed during the last weeks of November on through the winter...
...singers of the English poetic renaissance of the seventeenth century, none sang more sweetly than Richard Lovelace whose tiny body of musical verse still delights the lovers of poetry. Imprisonment for his part in the Revolution in 1642 could not quench his ardor nor still his lyre, and he sang unceasingly of his Aramantha or his Lucasta. His lyrics have all the freshness of the Elizabethan morning, and breathe the spirit of liberty that characterized his age and is the keynote of the work of such of his followers as Byron and Shelley...
...gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...