Sutton's modest and simple yet fervent homilies.
In conclusion he sought the blessing of God on the revivalist and asked that this tireless enthusiast might be led to husband his strength: at which there was a fervent Amen.
The atmosphere became suddenly fervent, emotional and devout.
It seemed a face for the cloister, austere in contour, fervent in expression, the severity of it mollified by that resigned and spiritual melancholy peculiar to women who through the error of destiny have been born into a wrong environment.
On a very fervent and living truth to myself, I, too, till lately scarce dared count, from any quarter; but——look at me.
Amidst reserve and phlegm, amidst contrasts of character and of countenance, something there still was which recalled a face—mobile, fervent, feeling—a face changeable, now clouded, and now alight—a face from my world taken away, for my eyes lost, but where my best spring-hours of life had alternated in shadow and in glow; that face, where I had often seen movements so near the signs of genius—that why there did not shine fully out the undoubted fire, the thing, the spirit, and the secret itself
And if he should be of great virtue, and very fervent devotion, yet is there much wanting; to wit, one thing, which is most necessary for him.
But with the Catholic Question had come a slight wind of controversy to break the calm: the elderly rector had become occasionally historical and argumentative; and Mr Spray, the Independent minister, had begun to preach political sermons, in which he distinguished with much subtlety between his fervent belief in the right of the Catholics to the franchise and his fervent belief in their eternal perdition.
It was desirable that chaplaincies of this kind should be entered on with a fervent intention: they were peculiar opportunities for spiritual influence; and while it was good that a salary should be allotted, there was the more need for scrupulous watching lest the office should be perverted into a mere question of salary.
The domestic, unpretending merits of a person never known do not often create that kind of fervent, venerating tenderness which would prompt a visit like yours.
She liked the simple service and the fervent singing.
is a religious world in which people have fervent religious beliefs.
But we will tell you one thing: when machines replace humans at the top of the food chain, we'll be standing on the sidelines, waving our Autobot flag with fervent pride.
The ice cream mixes the sweetest and purest wish of a girl, and the bike carries the most conspicuous and fervent dream of a boy.
This passion hath his floods, in very times of weakness; which are great prosperity, and great adversity; though this latter hath been less observed: both which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly.
The sapling that bears our mark of love has grown into a big tree,but our once fervent love is lost forever in the wind.
" Even though they were not fervent about their faith, Jobs's parents wanted him to have a religious upbringing, so they took him to the Lutheran church most Sundays.
Some of the more fervent Brexiters like to say that an unequivocal rupture, freeing Britain from all EU encumbrances, would be the prelude to an opening-up to the rest of the world.
The Eyes That Drew from Me by Francesco Petrarch· The eyes that drew from me such fervent praise , The arms and hands and feat and countenance 、、, Which made me a stranger in my own romance , And set me apart from the well-trodden ways; ,; The gleaming golden curly hair, the rays , Flashing from a smiling angel's glance , Which moved the world in paradisal dance, ,, Are grains of dust, insensibilities.
Though fervent was our vow, Though ruddily ran our pleasure, Bliss has fulfilled its measure, And sees its sentence now.
