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Example sentences for "fervid"

Lexicographically close words:
ferus; fervency; fervent; fervently; fervet; fervidly; fervor; fervors; fervour; fervours
  1. We have thought it due--not less to the character of the meeting than to the sincere and fervid eloquence of the speakers--to place upon our pages an authentic record of the whole proceedings of the day.

  2. Its organ was L'Avenir of Montreal, in which were constantly appearing violent diatribes and fervid appeals to national prejudice, always peculiar to French Canadian journalism.

  3. At the same time, his manner had not suffered from too fervid an enthusiasm for the imperfectly comprehended antique.

  4. Again, he never failed to rise to an occasion which required the display of fervid eloquence.

  5. Fervid and lovely, keen and lithe, soon she held in her small, hot hands the hearts of the cool English audience, tightening their nerves, swaying and drawing them into paths of unaccustomed passion.

  6. Moreover this mad Khosrul of whom Niphrata spoke lately, thunders angry denunciations of Lysia and Nagaya in the open streets, with so much fervid eloquence that they who pass by cannot choose but hear, .

  7. The luminous thread rested on one of the fervid waters, where I saw my father Louis covered to his thighs, and though labouring in the anguish of bodily pain, he spoke to me.

  8. The publication of Gibbon's Memoirs conveyed to the world a faithful picture of the most fervid industry; it is in youth the foundations of such a sublime edifice as his history must be laid.

  9. Italy, a land of Improvisatori, kept up from the time of their old masters, the Romans, the same fervid fancy.

  10. On the contrary, it was named Ramsey, after an old pioneer, and no one but a youth of fervid imagination at the close of his first day of adventure in the world would have found it worth a second glance.

  11. His was an open house to all who came along the road, and the fervid chantings, the impassioned prayers of these meetings lent a singular air of unreality to the business of cooking or plowing in the fields.

  12. With fervid hand-clasp we separated, some of us never again to meet.

  13. They carry lorgnettes, and they pay less attention to a uniform--they have grown accustomed in the Caucasus to meeting a fervid heart beneath a numbered button and a cultured intellect beneath a white forage-cap.

  14. The youth who rode so desperately to the Dale home that wonderful day tragically to proclaim his plight, followed by fervid vows to go away and make a new fortune, has long since won my sympathy.

  15. She smiled graciously and lightly patted my fringed sleeve, and ignoring my fervid declaration, she gently reminded: "Even if I had no belts I am no better than any of the other women on the creek.

  16. If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm to make him believe it?

  17. He was an earnest, and I am inclined to think a fervid and rapid speaker.

  18. This long range of sea-coast embraced all the varieties of climate that are found between a hard and sterile region, where summer is but the breath of a few fervid weeks, and the ever blooming tropics, where winter is unknown.

  19. The Apostle begins his fervid catalogue of vanquished foes by a pair of opposites which might seem to cover the whole ground--'neither death nor life.

  20. It is hard to be fervid amidst people that are all but dead.

  21. The stars were his companions; though he was no poet, having rather the fervid temper of the born swordsman, that expresses itself in physical ecstasies.

  22. She subsided again with a fervid sigh, and sat exchanging with him a happy smile.

  23. There was nothing theatrically fervid about this silent resolve.

  24. They were broken, hoarse, and of fervid melancholy.

  25. It began with a flaming of orange from horizon to zenith; and this quickly deepened to a fervid vermilion, through which the crimson disk glared like the cinder of a burnt-out star.

  26. No: it is only the pure brilliant red, the fervid red, that arouses sinister feeling.

  27. There was a bundle of uncomfortably fervid letters which he refused to return.

  28. So she wrote a long letter full of the beautiful story of the growing happiness, with pages of fervid descriptions of a certain fine young fellow, and importuned her mother to come East at once and to bring her blessing.

  29. So, when she listened to the fervid exhorter, revealing the new highway to heaven, that glorious way where the good Lord carries all our burdens, if we will just cast them upon Him, a great light illumined her soul.

  30. The predominant mood is heroic and affirmative, at times tragic in its fervid intensity, sombre recurringly, but essentially an assertion of joyous strength, with momentary bursts of sidelong gaiety reserved for the last movement.

  31. The Concerto brought a fervid response, but not all of it was on Prokofieff's side.

  32. A rude simplicity, combined with a gloomy and overpowering force, are its chief characteristics; they remind us of the defective cultivation, as well as of the fervid and harassed feelings of its author.

  33. Some of his letters written during this period have been preserved: they exhibit the ineffectual struggles of a fervid and busy mind veiling its many chagrins under a certain dreary patience, which only shows them more painfully.

  34. Feelings so deep and earnest as hers can never be an object of ridicule: whoever pursues a purpose of any sort with such fervid devotedness, is entitled to awaken emotions, at least of a serious kind, in the hearts of others.

  35. The second cause is the reaction that has settled upon mankind from the fervid hopes inspired by the propagation of those theories and the propounding of those promises which the historian associates with the French Revolution.

  36. Even its most fervid flatterers, however, ever and anon admit that it exhibits a few trifling defects; and among these is sometimes named a diminution of popular interest in poetic literature.

  37. He has nothing of that sublime melancholy, of those fervid questionings, of those audacious revolts, in which poetry delighted fifty years ago.

  38. The fervid lover of poetry knows them by heart, and carries them with him through life.

  39. Nothing in these fervid fantasies prevented his responding with due dryness to Fulkerson's cheery "Hello, old man!


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fervid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; ablaze; afire; ardent; blazing; boiling; breathless; burning; committed; cordial; craving; dedicated; delirious; devoted; devout; drunk; eager; earnest; eloquent; emotional; enthusiastic; erotic; excited; exuberant; faithful; fanatical; febrile; fervent; fervid; feverish; fiery; fire; flaming; flushed; glowing; heartfelt; hearty; heated; hectic; hot; hungering; hungry; impassioned; impetuous; inflammatory; intense; intent; intoxicated; itching; keen; lively; loyal; mad; overheated; passionate; perfervid; prurient; resolute; sanguine; seething; serious; sincere; spirited; steaming; steamy; strong; thirsty; torrid; unrestrained; vehement; vigorous; voracious; warm; zealous