Word: fervently
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Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...
...ideal of a large part of the population, which today expresses the fervent hope that he will some day mount the throne and receive his reward for the bitterness which he has undeservedly suffered...
...Lueli is a youth who is the literary counterpart of the cinematic "Moana". He is lithe, graceful, ingratiating, childlike--and quite pagan. Worse than any vampire bat, he destroys Mr. Fortune's placidity; he creates have in a heart which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book an absolutely unfathomable creature, a gracile dryad, a tropic faun--a maggot. In short, he is a masterpiece...
...present, despatches told, celebrated the instantaneous Frenchification of honest Alsatian Abbe Haegy by joining with him and the presiding magistrate in fervent hymning of "La Marseillaise...
...later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize that writing prose does not necessarily demand substitution of fervent ellipsis for sound and conventional grammar, she may well write a good book...