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Example sentences for "deadly earnest"

  • The Manxman may have appropriated them, but if he did so he was in a deadly earnest mood.

  • Rushford, looking at him curiously, saw that he was in deadly earnest.

  • Even to the point of giving you away, if you don't play fairly," she answered, in deadly earnest.

  • Every time that he saw anybody in authority Toddles spoke up for a job, he was in deadly earnest--and got a grin.

  • Maguire's answer differed in no whit from the answer he had made to Gleason, the yardmaster, and every one else to whom he had applied for a job--Maguire was in deadly earnest.

  • Donkin went at it as earnestly as Toddles did--and Toddles was in deadly earnest.

  • He had never regarded Sartoris as anything of an actor, and he seemed to be in deadly earnest now.

  • He could see that Fleming was in deadly earnest.

  • He did not need to look at Berrington's face to feel sure that he was in deadly earnest.

  • There was something of deadly earnest in his regard, something anxious.

  • For all his grin Arden Laval was in deadly earnest.

  • He was in deadly earnest, and it represented her revenge for his sarcasm.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accusative case; always thought; but little; cannabis and opium poppy; colored marble; coming out; could perceive; deadly earnest; deadly fear; deadly poison; deadly wound; done been; each commune; each single; first duty; listen attentively; medical schools; mental note; morrow afternoon; nothing loth; public duty; small company; thing like; torpid state; your feet