Use ardent in a sentence
Sentences starting with ardent
- Ardent kisses, of which she had forbidden herself even to think, she awaited with blissful delight. [10]
Sentences ending with ardent
- The air was sensuous, insinuating, ardent. [11]
- I also shall be strong as I am ardent. [11]
More example sentences with the word ardent in them
- I already behold you creating other works to the delight of gods and men; but this Demeter extorts boundless, enthusiastic appreciation; both as a whole, and in detail, it is faultless and worthy of the most ardent praise. [10]
- She thought it would restore her peace of mind forever if she could succeed in speaking to him for even one brief moment and telling him what a transformation his guilt had wrought in her ardent love and her whole nature. [10]
- I believe it would have been found that most of these persons were of ardent temperament and of considerable imagination, and that their history would show that Perkinism was not the first nor the last hobby-horse they rode furiously. [6]
- Into a New World wandered I, A world austere, sublime; And unseen feet came sauntering by; A voice with ardent chime Rang down the idle lanes of sleep; I waked: the night was still; I saw my star its sentry keep Along a southern hill. [11]
- Eliab thanked him with an ardent glance, exclaiming: "Oh, would that Aaron, or Eleasar, or my lord your father were here in my stead, or would that Jehovah would bestow on me the might of their eloquence! [10]
- The interest with which the fair daughter of his companion-in-arms watched his deeds and his destiny, the modest yet ardent devotion afterwards displayed by the much sought-after young widow, who coldly repelled all other suitors, had been a delight to him in times of peace. [10]
- Had the feelings which her glances were intended to reveal passed merely for the ardent gratitude of an impassioned soul? [10]
- Her husband did what he could to aid her and soothe her excitement by the gratification of so ardent a wish, but his efforts were vain. [10]
- Probably because she was too proud to accept alms from a man from whom her ardent heart vainly desired something better. [10]
- A heart which was not itself languishing for love could not pour forth to another with such convincing truth, overwhelming power, and glowing fervour the ardent longing of a soul seized by the omnipotence of love. [10]
- Then every reproach was forgotten, and resentment was transformed into doubly ardent longing. [10]
- Besides, stern austerity was as much a part of the Biamite as her hair and her hands, yet what ardent passion he had seen glow in her eyes! [10]
- She, however, was waiting with ardent longing for another, so her sole answer was a troubled shake of the head. [10]
- We want the virile energy of determination which made the oath of Andrew Jackson sound so like the devotion of an ardent saint that the recording angel might have entered it unquestioned among the prayers of the faithful. [6]
- She has a very ardent nature, but at the same time a great deal of what we call common sense. [4]
- Was this the vengeance of the heart whose ardent wishes she had heroically slain? [10]
- Ye give a value for all loss in age, When feebled eyes search for forgotten springs; Ye fan the breeze that turns the moulded page, And carry back the soul to ardent things. [11]
- He received Ruth's unwearied attentions with ardent gratitude, and when he gazed into her faithful eyes, when her hand touched him, her soft, deep voice penetrated the depths of his soul, an unexampled sense of happiness filled his breast. [10]
- Yet when she turned her face toward him, and his ardent gaze rested yearningly upon her, she felt that the opportunity had now come to carry out her half-forgotten intention of arousing the jealousy of her royal lover. [10]
- It is needless to say that he was an ardent member of the military company of his village. [4]
- She, too, went to rest in a joyous, happy mood, and, as she lay in her narrow bed, asked herself whether she could not renounce her ardent longing for wealth and splendour and be content with a modest life at Wolf's side. [10]
- His close attention to every important object--his modest questions about whatever was new to him--his reverence for wise old age, and his ardent desire to learn many of the fine arts, soon brought him into respectable notice. [5]
- We Romans learn to curb even the most ardent wishes when duty and morality command. [10]
- It was scarcely to be doubted that Heinz Schorlin was fired with ardent love for Eva; but, for that very reason, he would be ready to yield her obedience, and therefore it was advisable to tell her exactly to what she must persuade him. [10]
- Heinz Schorlin gazed thoughtfully after him a short time, then beckoned to Biberli and, though the interval required for him to reach his master's side was very brief, it was sufficient for the bold young lover, tortured by his ardent longing, to form another idea. [10]
- Instinctively he picked them up one by one, and most of them were affectionately marked by marginal notes of criticism, approval, or reference; and all showing the eager, ardent mind of one who loved books. [11]
- Not until, through the young husband's intercession, she had regained her liberty, after he prevented her kissing his hand and, to soothe her, had stroked her hair and cheeks in the magistrate's room, did the most ardent gratitude take possession of her soul. [10]
- Believe me, directly the war is over, if I am still alive and still loved by you, I will throw up everything and fly to you, to press you forever to my ardent breast. [2]
- Between him and the outer door, against the ardent blue background, stood Sophie Farcinelle--the English faced Sophie--a little heavy, a little slow, but with the large, long profile which is the type of English beauty--docile, healthy, cow-like. [11]
- Every word expressed the lover's ardent longing, every line was pervaded by the passion that had filled the writer's heart. [10]
- Every evening, when the haymakers put up their scythes, the mill-wheel stopped turning, and the Angelus ceased, the men marched away into the hills, where the ardent soldier of fortune had pitched his camp. [11]
- Honour and respect the handsome, hot-blooded youth that, nevertheless, he allowed himself to be diverted from work only a short time and soon resumed it with ardent zeal, at first in superabundance, and then amid fresh need and privation. [10]
- If to avoid the fleeting censure of aristocratic friends he left in the lurch the simple barbarian maiden who loved him with ardent passion, it was no evidence of resolute strength of soul, but of pitiful, reprehensible weakness. [10]
- This man, from the first hour of their meeting, had loved her with the most ardent but also with the holiest passion; never, never had he sought her merely for wanton amusement. [10]
- It was scarcely the daughter of Archias who had detained Hermon, for he made only a brief answer--Ledscha could not hear what it was--when she accosted him pleasantly, to devote himself to Althea, and--this could be perceived even at a distance--thank her with ardent devotion. [10]
- Five times had the bell rung out in the perfect spring air, upon which the balm of the forest and the refreshment of the ardent sun were poured. [11]
- It certainly enhanced the beauty of a face now only too frequently pallid and colourless, when rouge did not lend its aid; but Barine understood Archibius's ardent admiration for this rare woman, when Cleopatra, with a faint smile, requested her to approach. [10]
- Almost colorless in the ardent daylight, they greedily consumed everything they approached, and white ashes marked their track. [10]
- Yet Gorgias found something in her features which he was unable to express in words--the reflection of the ardent gratitude that had taken possession of her soul and filled it absolutely. [10]
- Therefore he repeated some especially ardent words, to which Cleopatra listened with grateful joy. [10]
- As Phaon wept so violently, Xanthe's tears began to flow more slowly, and she gazed at him a long time with ardent sympathy, unperceived by the lad, for he still covered his eyes with his hands. [10]
- But yet they sinned; and this monument, the gift and work of one young like them, ardent and desiring like them, is for ever in our eyes the crucifixion of our wrong ambitions and our selfish aims. [11]
- Such men, mostly sincere and ardent patriots, not only wished, but earnestly set to work, to prevent Lincoln's renomination. [7]
- The snow had shrunk from the ardent sun, and had swilled away to the gulf, leaving the tender grass showing. [11]
- She had brains, she was skilful, inventive, supple, ardent, yet intellectually discreet. [11]
- But the composure she needed for prayer was soon destroyed, for the image of the knight rose before her again and again, and it seemed as if her own name, which he had called with such ardent longing, once more rang in her ears. [10]
- In the convent she had reached the conviction that it would be degrading to think longer of the man who, in return for the most ardent love, offered nothing but alms in jingling coin; yet her poor heart would not cease its yearning. [10]
- Mr. Clay's predominant sentiment, from first to last, was a deep devotion to the cause of human liberty--a strong sympathy with the oppressed everywhere, and an ardent wish for their elevation. [7]
- It will be seen by the foregoing that Mark Twain's interest in the Kellgren system was still an ardent one. [5]
- The noon sun seemed to steep the white vapor with light, and lure it upward by its ardent rays. [10]
- Many men had seemed estimable and agreeable, a few even desirable husbands, but Dion was the first to awaken love in her ardent but by no means passionate soul. [10]
- Did it not seem as if her ardent royal partner of those days had become her avenger? [10]
- The ardent young Saxon duke would have been a dangerous rival for any one, even the handsomest and most powerful of men. [10]
- All these questions roused a tumult of unprecedented violence in her young, ardent, inexperienced soul, which was renewed each successive night. [10]
- He went to Rhodopis at once, besought her not to refuse him the hand of her granddaughter, spoke of his ardent love, and assured her that his happiness would be doubled, if she would consent to accompany them to Persia. [10]
- Is this your response to the yearning cry of a passionately ardent heart? [10]
- But in her presence something of his old youthfulness came back, some reflection of the ardent hopes of his young manhood. [11]
- Her wish to possess it, however, was not gratified, and she did not ask for it again until the limitless devotion and ardent love of Antony had seemed less fervent than of yore. [10]
- The ardent, long-cherished passion which had brought the young knight full of hope to Ratisbon had changed to compassion. [10]
- Even now political passion is almost as ready to flame forth, either in ardent affection or enthusiastic hatred, as if two centuries and a half had not elapsed since his death. [6]
- For the most part, his letters seemed those of an ardent lover who knew his duty and did it gladly, but with a self-conscious and flowing eloquence, costing but small strain of feeling. [11]
- There was one other letter she would write--to Donovan Pasha, who had not been ardent in her cause, yet who might have done so much through his influence with Ismail, who, it was said, liked him better than any Englishman he had known, save Gordon. [11]
- There are different opinions extant concerning the remarkable original of this character; ardent defenders and detractors of his are still living, but all agree that he was a strange man of great power. [9]
- Of Julius Caesar, on the contrary, long before she met him, she spoke with ardent enthusiasm, though she knew that he would gladly have made Egypt a Roman province. [10]
- As the guest of the most hospitable city on earth, their illustrious sovereign had a right to expect from every Alexandrian the most ardent endeavors to make his stay here delightful. [10]
- In his advocacy of the candidate with whom, and the government of which he became the head, his relations became afterwards so full of personal antagonism, he spoke as a man of his ardent nature might be expected to speak on such an occasion. [6]
- Soon fervent hymns of praise to the Lord sounded from the midst of the refreshed, reinvigorated bands overflowing with ardent gratitude, who had never encamped richer in hope and joyous confidence. [10]
- Like a flash of lightning, Kuni, whose kind heart cherished resentment against few and wished no one any evil, suddenly felt an ardent desire to drive the little witch from Lienhard's side, even by force, if necessary. [10]
- His ideals were of a virginal vagueness; faces, voices, gestures had filled his fancy at times, but almost passionately; and the sensation that he now indulged was a kind of worship, ardent, but reverent and exalted. [8]
- This, however, by no means escaped his keen glance, which detects everything, and so he urged me with touching, ardent entreaties to go with him to his studio, though but for one poor, brief hour. [10]
- It will be no easy matter for me to leave my happiness, at the moment my most ardent wish is fulfilled--but Sophonisba commands and I obey. [10]
- No sudden wrath, no ardent desire, no weariness or aversion urges or delays them. [10]
- The impulse that moved his brush was no longer the divine pleasure in creation of former days, but dread of failure, and ardent, daily increasing love for Isabella. [10]
- None ever had more devoted friends or more ardent admirers. [9]
- Then he met Miriam and was fired with an ardent desire to make her his wife. [10]
- Meanwhile Barine's eyes met those of her sovereign, and at first they roused an ardent desire to press her lips even on the hem of her robe, but afterwards she felt as if a venomous serpent had crawled out of the most beautiful flower. [10]
- He could not mature such a project, one which he had been for some time contemplating, without consulting Mr. Byles Gridley, who, though he had not unfrequently repressed the young poet's too ardent ambition, had yet always been kind and helpful. [6]
- He thanked the matron for having escorted Melissa, and added, with a braggart air of virtue, that the world should see that he, too, could sacrifice the most ardent wish of his heart to moral propriety. [10]
- His ardent, admiring look gave Norice thought for many a day. [11]
- Dread, horror and loathing threatened to deprive her of consciousness; but the ardent longing, the one last hope of her soul sustained her, steeled her energy, sharpened her sight. [10]
- And besides the leonine courage and talent for command which he had displayed, his noble nature was praised with ardent enthusiasm. [10]
- At last, at last the most ardent desire of the mother's heart was to be fulfilled. [10]
- She did not know that this new ardent confidence came near to wrecking her. [11]
- Oh, Charmian, what joy it was when, with open arms and overflowing heart, he swung his mighty figure ashore like a youth, while his handsome, heroic face beamed with ardent love for me! [10]
- The object of its ardent passion was no less a personage than the Burgrave von Zollern. [10]
- In spite of its ardent and luscious look, it was the mouth of one who knew her own mind and could sustain her own course. [11]
- He also knew how to prize her beauty and her singing, but the ardent passion which had taken possession of him in his mature years was for Cleopatra alone. [10]
- When she bade him farewell, Gorgias kissed her robe with ardent enthusiasm. [10]
- John was to her the embodied fulfilment of the most ardent prayers. [10]
- Then he made her heart throb in response to his confident, ardent words--concerning himself. [11]
- These thoughts lent her features so gloomy an expression that it would have offended the Emperor Charles's ardent admirer if he had noticed it. [10]
- She anxiously clasped her emaciated hands, and from her troubled bosom rose the prayer that the Lord would preserve her darling from the fulfilment of the most ardent desire of his heart. [10]
- In three days he was on his feet, eager and ardent again, and preparing to go to the village; but what would the end of it all be? [11]
- He felt that he might seriously endanger the fulfilment of his ardent wish to gain this soul for heaven if he urged Heinz further now. [10]
- The more ardent he grows the more lively he becomes, until at last the bird appears like a frantic creature. [1]
- Resolved, That they have our most ardent prayers for their speedy triumph and final success. [7]
- Her greeting would have frozen a man of ardent temperament. [9]
- Would she not have flown to meet him, if the love of which she had assured him yesterday were as fervent, as ardent as his own? [10]
- After its novelty has worn out, the ardent and capricious individuals who constitute the most prominent class of its patrons will return to visible doses, were it only for the sake of a change. [3]
- On the other hand, he hated Dion with so ardent a thirst for revenge that, to obtain it, he would have resigned even the hope of fresh gains. [10]
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