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Sentences starting with earnest

Earnest demands were heard that his candidacy should be withdrawn. [7]

Sentences ending with earnest

Are there pages where he ceases from posing, ceases from admiring the placid flood and flow of his own dilutions, ceases from being artificial, and is for a time, long or short, recognizably sincere and in earnest? [5]
So, when they were to travel to Egypt, Martina took it for granted that Heliodora must go with them, and that the flirtation which had made her favorite the talk of the town must, in Memphis, become courtship in earnest. [10]
The Imperial troops were in fact masters of the secret passage; and they had begun the attack on the Serapeum in earnest. [10]
But I think we had better try to study her, and coax her along, and not fob her off as a very inferior person, or we shall have our hands full in earnest. [11]
He had looked upon it as a good joke, but now it had turned to bitter earnest. [10]
It came on to rain, and it rained in dead earnest. [5]
Philippus forbade them to plunder on pain of death, and showed them--the gods be thanked!--that he was in earnest. [10]
By the time the person had got the horse by the nose,--shutting off his wind,--the rain was coming down in earnest. [9]
It was evident that Young Aleck was in earnest. [11]
We have seen that this massed array of peeresses is sown thick with diamonds, and we also see that it is a marvellous spectacle--but now we are about to be astonished in earnest. [5]

Short sentences using earnest

Can you be in earnest? [10]
And how much in earnest! [11]
Are you in earnest? [5]
This was in earnest. [5]
They talked low and earnest. [5]
I'm in earnest. [8]

Sentences containing earnest two or more times

I was in earnest, terrible earnest in the mute vow I swore, and have sought to release myself from it by death. [10]
Therefore, no reader can possibly know where I was in earnest and where I was joking; or whether I was joking altogether or in earnest altogether. [5]
You don't look as if you felt like jesting, and the work will be in earnest now, bloody earnest. [10]

More example sentences with the word earnest in them

If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
Upon my word, you know, it's quite serious and in earnest, that's clear. [12]
Oh, good-licks; are you in real dead-wood earnest, Tom? [5]
Tell me now, you are not in earnest, are you, but only trying a little sentiment on me? [6]
I know the years when the fevers and dysenteries are in earnest, and when they're only making believe. [6]
In brief, earnest words he confessed his love for her, and his desire to make her his own, as the pride and ornament of his house. [10]
Therefore his relations with his brother-in-law, whose prudent caution he considered avarice, and whose earnest protests against his often unprecedented demands frequently roused his ire, became more and more unfriendly. [10]
They adopted her, with grave and formal military ceremonies of their own invention--solemnities is the truer word; solemnities that were so profoundly solemn and earnest, that the spectacle would have been comical if it hadn't been so touching. [5]
They will remember with gratitude every earnest effort, every encouraging word, which has helped them in their difficult and laborious career of study. [3]
Then Washington said, with earnest compassion in his voice-- "And so, after coming here, against your inclination, to satisfy your sense of patriotic duty and appease a selfish public clamor, you get absolutely nothing for it. [5]
The decisive hour which often unites earnest men more firmly than many previous years had come to both. [10]
And then, too, where amongst ourselves do we find so earnest a longing and endeavor to gain freedom, the highest good, as among the animals? [10]
Yet when I went to Lepsius, the most earnest of my teachers, to show him the finished manuscript, I felt very anxious. [10]
From this day we'll call you in earnest Navarrete: Ulrich Navarrete. [10]
The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing, so patient. [5]
Suppose the Sister was right, and that the saints heard every earnest petition? [10]
But no, he was in real earnest, and went right on, perfectly ca'm. [5]
Of course he was in earnest, despite his bantering tone, "but I never could--marry you. [9]
Lastly, with earnest warmth, she besought him, before taking the prisoners away, to permit her to speak to the commanding general, Philippus, her father's guest, who, she was certain, was in the palace. [10]
Very unlike Barine's voice, too, were the deep, earnest tones trembling with emotion, in which she confronted him with the brief question, concealing a faint reproach, "Another demand? [10]
Both parties are very much in earnest, and both speak with a freedom that is, in itself, a very hopeful sign. [4]
I suppose he's very much in earnest with Miss Vance at times, and with Miss Dryfoos at others. [8]
For the first two years Costa had remained far in advance of his pupil, then he was compelled to defend himself in good earnest, and now it not unfrequently happened that the smith vanquished the scholar. [10]
You must listen to this seriously, for I think the Professor was very much in earnest when he wrote it. [6]
He exposed himself to the sun too much yesterday, but since it came of his earnest desire to learn, and to make this journey as useful as the opportunities will allow, no one seeks to discourage him by fault-finding. [5]
The latter, pointing to the equipage, said in a rapid, earnest tone: "Gorgias is beckoning. [10]
Darius, ever eager to acquire knowledge, did not wait to be asked twice, and was to be found there every night in earnest attention to the old priest's lessons. [10]
For the first time she had been brought face to face with life in hideous earnest, and when the singer went to look for her in her room, at dusk, he was startled to find her bright face clouded and her eyes dim with tears. [10]
He said: "I thought you couldn't be in earnest, but I see you are. [5]
Not in earnest, though, I think. [5]
I know how thoroughly in earnest you are, but I dare not even leave you hope--I neither can nor ought. [10]
That you believe this I doubt not, and believing it, I shall still receive, for our country and myself your earnest prayers to our Father in Heaven. [7]
I liked not this fashion of speech, and when he saw that I was ill-pleased and grieved, instead of falling in with his merry mood, he took up a more earnest vein and said: "Never mind, Margery. [10]
The Administration recognised this after a few years of voluntary and earnest labour on Louis Bachelor's part. [11]
But I should think--speaking in the abstract entirely--that if either of those arts was ever going to be in earnest about him, it would want his exclusive devotion for a week at least. [8]
I thought of these things in earnest, for I was very miserable and scared. [5]
In one of them cradles the unconscious Farragut of the future is at this moment teething--think of it!--and putting in a world of dead earnest, unarticulated, but perfectly justifiable profanity over it, too. [5]
Hours after all the others were asleep, Adam and the doctor still sat on a sack of straw, engaged in earnest conversation. [10]
In spite of the old woman's earnest advice not to mix in the crowd, she had pushed her way through, and, as the men-at-arms dispersed the mob, she came nearer to her favorite but too reckless brother. [10]
His solicitude at the moment was so natural and earnest that it was hard to think he was my enemy. [11]
In her absence the coppersmith Pernhart had wooed her mother in good earnest, and the eldest daughter not being on the spot, had sped so well that the widow had yielded. [10]
He was in the "deadest" earnest in these matters. [5]
The matron's remark that she, too, was invited to the reception at the imperial residence that evening brought an earnest entreaty from Eva to accept the invitation for her sake, and the Swabian promised to gratify her if nothing occurred to prevent. [10]
It always happened that people who began in jest with her ended by being in earnest. [5]
The men perceived that he was in earnest, and while he spoke the sibyl went behind him, laid her hand on his shoulder, and wiped the perspiration from his brow with her handkerchief. [10]
The large numbers that have turned out under these circumstances testify that you are in earnest about something or other. [7]
It was considered that a person could strike harder in the duel, and with a more earnest interest, if he had never been in a condition of comradeship with his antagonist; therefore, comradeship between the corps was not permitted. [5]
There is more than one way of praying, and I like the butcher's way because the petitioner is so apt to be in earnest. [5]
He will be terribly in earnest with every woman in the house, if--" "If you do not keep him in line yourself? [11]
They were always talking in the Row, everlastingly gossiping, bantering and sarcastically praising things, and going on in a style which was a curious commingling of earnest and persiflage. [5]
I am quite sure that the fighters were not in earnest. [5]
But Joan was standing close by, and she looked up in his face, and said in her sober, earnest way: "I would I might see thy head struck from thy body! [5]
He at first stammered out a few unintelligible words, but his opponent was in fearful earnest with his question; he seized the collar of the anchorite's coarse garment with terrible violence, and cried in a husky voice, "Where did you find the dog? [10]
Because her love sprang from a simple, earnest, and uncontaminated life. [11]
He took the sport of his companions for earnest, and his father, who was unwise only as a tutor, encouraged him to resistance instead of to forbearance, in the idea that he thus would be steeled to the hard life of a Mohar. [10]
They were earnest, solemn in unutterable love and faith and abnegation. [13]
She purposed in solemn earnest henceforth at all times to devote herself to the happiness of others, and whereas that demanded heavy sacrifice, she was now ready to make it. [10]
He was a soldier and took service and discipline in earnest. [10]
It is not so with this one's human property; their loyalty is genuine, earnest, sincere, enthusiastic. [5]
We were all sincere, and all deeply moved and earnest, for we were in the presence of death and without hope. [5]
And the bookmaker simply sat calm and earnest with his eye-glass in his eye, and never did more than gently smile. [11]
Anukis uttered a sigh of relief and then, in a tone of the most earnest warning, poured forth the story of the impending danger. [10]
They desired to show the people by their verdict and the severity of the procedures how thoroughly in earnest they were. [10]
Any such movement should have and deserves our earnest and unanimous co-operation, and such a petition for funds as has been explained by Mr. Hunter, with its just and powerful meaning, should have the utmost support of each and every one of us. [5]
For the rest, she had never murmured or complained; but with a quiet mind, and manner quite unaltered--save that she every day became more earnest and more grateful to them--faded like the light upon a summer's evening. [12]
She fancied that she apprehended the meaning of these stern words, and, prompted by an earnest desire not to be misunderstood by this man, she eagerly exclaimed: "I do not wish him dead--no, indeed not; not even for my brother's sake! [10]
This defect it shall be my earnest endeavour to remedy. [5]
And did you seriously suppose that I was in earnest when we spoke about your assistance in persuading him to take the house? [9]
She who had sent him was so grave and earnest that the bare thought of her being capable of any tender emotion wakened his mirth. [10]
It was indeed Selene's most earnest wish to be baptized by you, but as a year of probation is required--" "I will perform the rite to-morrow morning. [10]
Besides, he had seen that O'Ryan was in earnest, and what O'Ryan wanted he himself wanted even more strongly. [11]
Yet it now seemed that she had been as sincerely in earnest in that youthful betrothal as he himself. [10]
But her lover sat opposite and, though she lowered her eyes, her earnest endeavour to concentrate her thoughts was futile. [10]
He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity. [5]
But in your retirement you will carry with you the admiration and earnest good wishes of the oppressed and toiling scribes. [5]
In giving the resolutions that earnest consideration which you request of me, I cannot overlook the fact that the meeting speak as "Democrats. [7]
I am generally ready enough to laugh, but what he said was so impressive and solemn, and so wonderfully earnest and startling that I could not jest over it. [10]
It was a ray of sunshine which (to this easy household) was the earnest of a clearing sky. [5]
The rain was rattling against the windows and pouring down in torrents, and such was Mr Codlin's extreme amiability of mind, that he more than once expressed his earnest hope that they would not be so foolish as to get wet. [12]
Into them Warner put his deepest and most earnest convictions. [4]
So the Herr Professor received my earnest thanks and departed. [5]
An earnest and practical laborer in the New York slums comes up there on vacation--he is leader of a section of the University Settlement. [5]
Fit out the Powhatan to go to sea at the earnest possible moment under sealed orders. [7]
I never take out my note-book until I and my man have got engaged in artless and earnest conversation,--always about himself and his works, of course, if he is an author. [6]
Nothing but love ought to move his heart on the eve of a union with Him whom he had just called Love itself, and with earnest and tender entreaties he besought Eva to forgive him for the censure which was also a work of love. [10]
At first the other youths thought his mind was affected, but when they found that he was in earnest, the next thing to be thought of was, what sort of opportunity this venture might afford for a practical joke. [5]
Now she could once more look freely into the grave and earnest face of him who had ever guided her in the right way. [10]
Maria, it must once be said--" "Never, never," she interrupted in a tone of earnest entreaty. [10]
Walking one evening on the hill with her, the two stopped just at a turn in the walk--I can show you the exact spot, with a chaperon--and he fell into earnest discourse with her. [4]
With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us. [7]
If the subject of the question starts back and expresses surprise and incredulity, as if you could not possibly be in earnest, the fact of maturity is no less clear. [6]
With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. [7]
Then the leader of the Hebrews summoned his strength for a new and more earnest appeal to the Most High; but the exhausted man's knees tottered and his wearied arms fell. [10]
A leading member of the committee met Slade, and informed him in the quiet, earnest manner of one who feels the importance of what he is saying: "Slade, get your horse at once, and go home, or there will be ---- to pay. [5]
When the cry of fire had been first raised, Pentaur was sitting in earnest conversation with the high-priest; he had learned that he was not the son of a gardener, but a descendant of one of the noblest families in the land. [10]
Already several persons of excellent mental powers have been attracted to earnest Egyptological researches by "An Egyptian Princess. [10]
A painful feeling of discomfort overwhelmed the man accustomed to the silence of the desert, and a voice within cried with earnest insistence, "Away from here! [10]
The betrothed couple now came up also, and saw with surprise the earnest zeal with which Martina's father was discussing something, they knew not what, with the singer on whose account they had had their first quarrel. [10]
But he would not see the joke; he got graver and more earnest, and insisted, saying that our fate, his and mine, hung on that hour, and that not a soul must overhear what he had to say. [10]
However, Els did not lack earnest warning. [10]

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