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Example sentences for "fervor"

Lexicographically close words:
fervent; fervently; fervet; fervid; fervidly; fervors; fervour; fervours; fery; fescue
  1. They sing with wonderful enunciation and with a fervor that can come only from spontaneous rapture.

  2. Her whole heart, the long-suppressed fervor of her soul, spoke in her moist and glowing eyes.

  3. He took off his hat and bowed lowly before the black and white colors of Prussia, a greeting that Deesen imitated with the fervor of a patriot.

  4. With equal fervor the audience would cry out: "Praise ye the Lord.

  5. He preached with such fervor and with such success that the whites as well as the blacks hung, as it were, upon his words.

  6. He is said to have been a man of strong mind, mighty of prayer, and of such fervor and energy in wrestling supplication that persons sometimes fell under his power, convicted of sin.

  7. These critics express their mind upon the need which exists, of reviving considerably the fervor and dignity of this exercise, and so restoring it to its former educational influence.

  8. The principles adopted on one side, however extravagant they may have been at their first adoption and in all the glow and fervor of a new departure, will certainly recommend themselves to some.

  9. But he was repeating to Zada the very phrases of his honeymoon, repeating them with all the fervor of a good actor playing Romeo for the hundredth time with his new leading lady.

  10. She felt a kind of assault in the fervor of his kiss, but she did not resist.

  11. Jim's heart was beating high with his fervor to defend Charity, but it stumbled when Beattie rose and faced him.

  12. He was reciting with fervor and genuine passion, in the broadest Berlinese dialect, one of their treasured poems which begins with these lines: "High upon the hilltops of thy mountains stand I, Thou beautiful and mighty Fatherland.

  13. There was a religious fervor in his patriotism which the average American lacks.

  14. He had for the vehicle of his eloquent fervor a newspaper which commanded the affection of his own people and the respect of the North.

  15. In his person were combined the chivalry of Knighthood, the fervor of the Crusader, the wit of Gascony, and the courage of Navarre.

  16. If you ever do love, watch over yourself; pray with fervor that God will give you the grace of self-control.

  17. Robert Maillard began to fear that such publicity would endanger the very perfection which was the theme of admiration, and with redoubled fervor did he pray for his beloved work.

  18. A renewal of tribal warfare in the second year after this, when this same Aed the king was attacked by Flann the lord of Breag in Meath, called forth certain battle-verses full of the fire and fervor of the time.

  19. A barrier of feelings and hopes thus springing up, tends to harden from year to year, till at last we have a religious caste grown proud and arrogant, and losing all trace of the spiritual fervor which is its sole reason for being.

  20. When these arts are freely offered in the service of religion, they are further evidence of widespread fervor and aspiration, a high and worthy ideal of life.

  21. We can divine from them the full and rich spiritual life which brought forth such exquisite flowers of beauty; we can imagine the fine aroma of fervor and saintly peace which brooded over these consecrated aisles.

  22. This was the normal course of the nation's life, the natural outlet of the nation's energy: not less a visible sign of invisible inward power than the faith and fervor of the schools.

  23. There are many churches and cathedrals of that period of transition, as of the epoch before the first Norman came, which show the same fervor and devotion, the same faith made manifest by works of beauty.

  24. Here is the glow of that devotion through work which gave us the great mediaeval cathedrals, the fervor and artistic power, which in former times adorned the Gospels of the Book of Kells, now working out its way in lasting stone.

  25. In the just fervor of indignation, an order was signified to the army of the Danube, that they should spare the magazines of the province, and establish their winter quarters in the hostile country of the Avars.

  26. The military spirit had been but feebly nursed during many tranquil years, yet, at the first breath of this storm, it blazed up in a fervor of patriotic fire such as never before had been witnessed.

  27. When the bitter chill of winter pervaded them, the congregation kept itself from freezing with thick garments and little foot-stoves of sheet-iron; the minister, with the fervor of his exhortations.

  28. Patriotic joy uplifted my soul to a fervor of grateful emotion one moment, and in the next, a wave of depression overwhelmed me.

  29. She had been created for love, and happiness, for the duties and ties of earth; once the fervor of self-sacrifice had exhausted itself, she would be miserable in a convent.

  30. In truth the leaders of the New England "Town Meeting," could not have shown more fervor nor more determination than these representative men of this Scotch Irish settlement in the Virginia mountains.

  31. But next evening, I think I threw additional fervor into the Laudate's and Benedicite's at Lauds.

  32. I meant that I was repaid by the extraordinary faith and fervor of the people.

  33. The proselytism of the faithful was chiefly carried on by means of struggling conversions, in which the fervor of their souls was communicated to their neighbors.

  34. The fervor of a July day, increased by the heat of the burning parts of the city, became unendurable.

  35. But when he came to the thoughtful and reflective lines, his tones deepened and he poured them forth with a fervor and almost passion of delivery which was very striking and beautiful.

  36. Upon him she showered all the affection so long repressed; and her fervor and intensity, which awed him not a little, was very flattering to his vanity.

  37. In that moment she hated Constance Brevoort with all the fervor of her strong young aching heart.

  38. His enthusiasm leaves him at once, his fervor vanishes, he loses his power of speech, becomes calm, indifferent, and finishes his oration in disgust.

  39. The peroration was delivered with fervor and gusto by one of the "red ones" of the Ghetto.

  40. The fervor of the action drew the blood to his face and temples, which as suddenly became pale again.

  41. Never did the pent-up feelings of a nation find vent in such a universal torrent of warlike fervor as now filled the land.

  42. She shuddered and hid her face in her hands once more and cried with all the fervor of her young and undisciplined soul.

  43. Some one whom she could love in return with all the fervor of her nature?

  44. The excrescences and extravagancies of religious fervor must have some sort of a religion to inspire them.

  45. This "esoteric Shinto" is essentially akin to that self-induced religious fervor which exhibits itself in many lands and in connection with various cults, and is often seen among the Mohammedan dancing and howling dervishes.

  46. Following the mighty wave of revolt which had swept the city, came a great receding wave of religious enthusiasm to atone in holy fervor for the impious act recently committed.

  47. It is full of romance,--a building romantic as the Cid, a child of architectural fervor or even architectural furor.

  48. Gazing at it, you feel the same religious fervor that flung the arches of Amiens and Chartres high into the northern air and rounded the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore under Lombardy's azure vault.

  49. The painter's inspiration sprang from the fervor of his faith.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fervor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; admiration; adoration; affection; agape; alacrity; anger; animation; application; ardor; assiduity; attachment; charity; commitment; concentration; dash; dedication; delirium; desire; devotion; diligence; eagerness; earnestness; ecstasy; eloquence; energy; enthusiasm; esprit; excitement; faith; fanaticism; fancy; feeling; fervor; fidelity; fire; flame; fondness; furor; fury; glow; gusto; heart; heat; hurrah; idolatry; inclination; industry; intensity; intentness; libido; like; liking; liveliness; love; lovemaking; loyalty; lust; passion; piety; popularity; regard; relentlessness; relish; resolution; savor; sentiment; seriousness; sex; shine; sincerity; soul; spirit; transport; vehemence; verve; warmth; weakness; worship; yearning; zeal; zealotry; zest