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Sentences starting with passion

Passion or ennui would no more vex her. [11]
Passion has helped us, but can do so no more. [7]
Passion and hatred in the face of an Oriental are not lovely things to see. [11]
Passion that must express itself longs always for the freedom of rhythmic utterance. [6]
Passion never laughs. [6]

Sentences ending with passion

I believe it would be better if it were a mere case of physical passion. [9]
And she, too, with the subtle senses of a disembodied spirit, must have had a yearning towards him, for she had perceived all the depth and fervor of his passion. [10]
Curiosity seized Euphrasia with the intensity of a passion. [9]
He grew white with sudden passion. [9]
Her voice shook with assumed passion. [11]
They and he were clearly in a minority, and his deep inward longing to be with the majority was growing into an engrossing passion. [6]
This same condition was equally favorable for the operations of any professional experimenter who would use the flame of religious excitement to light the torch of an earthly passion. [6]
With him this was a primary and all-controlling passion. [7]
He gave himself up to the resuscitated pleasure and power of creation with real passion. [10]
It was the touch of a born musician who certainly had skill, but who had infinitely more of musical passion. [11]

Short sentences using passion

That other passion was paramount. [9]
Then suddenly passion seized him. [11]
Such was Venters's passion. [13]
It was a grande passion? [11]
Or is it a passion? [6]
The Master Passion Y.M. [5]

Sentences containing passion two or more times

Thus she was wont, at the most unexpected moments, to betray the passion within her, the passion that made him sick with desire. [9]
At Easter-time there was to be the great Passion Play, after the manner of that known as The Passion Play of Ober-Ammergau. [11]
All the first passion returned, the passion that began on the common at Ridley Court. [11]
It is the passion of glory, but the desire of a nation, and Napoleon was the incarnation of passion. [4]
He spoke her name again, his voice thick with the passion which had overtaken him like a flood at the sight of her--a passion to seize her in his arms, and cherish and comfort and protect her forever and ever. [9]
His people had lived in Connemara for hundreds of years; and he himself had only one passion in life, which was the Protestant passion of prejudice. [11]
For the world has never assembled such an epitome of itself, in its passion for pleasure and its passion for display, as in the modern opera, with its ranks and tiers of votaries from the pit to the dome. [4]
Every human passion, every incident springing out of a human passion to-day, had its counterpart in the time of Amenhotep. [11]
But before the day was done I found that deep down in him somewhere he had a passion, quiet as he was--a passion for reforming petty public abuses. [5]
In Faith it came as near being a passion as passion could have a place in her even-flowing blood, under that cool flesh, governed by a heart as fair as the apricot blossoms on the wall in her father's garden. [11]

More example sentences with the word passion in them

Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
You still nurse your passion for blood. [13]
I know from your own lips that there is no passion which can betray Caesar into perjury. [10]
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
You had passion, you had hunger of the body, but of love you did not know. [11]
And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
And yet and yet against the tumult and beating of this passion striving to throb down thought, thought strove. [9]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
Mine is a world apart, where one acts and lives and sings the passion and sorrows and joys of others--all unreal, unreal. [11]
A young Spanish woman who taught her dancing succeeded best with her, for she had a passion for that exercise, and had mastered some of the most difficult dances. [6]
With such a woman life is a failure, either tragic or pathetic, without a great passion given and returned. [4]
As for Barbara, with the subtle power of presentiment of a loving heart she felt that his passion was waning, and tortured her mobile intellect to discover the right cause. [10]
He was gasping with passion, and he did not answer yet. [11]
He felt that, with her, beneath all, there was more than malice; there was a passion which would run risks to secure its end. [11]
Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
She it was who had a secret passion for Prince Charles, and these letters to Sir John, who had been with the Pretender at Versailles, must prove her ruin if produced. [11]
The house in which she lived, and for which she felt a passion of ownership, was for two days a rented house. [9]
Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful journal pecuniarily is the best journal. [4]
The fervent passion which had taken possession of him was suddenly transformed to hate and scorn. [10]
The hysterical passion which had possessed him suddenly passed, and a dark, sullen determination swept into his eyes and over his face. [11]
Here, in Egypt, where she had first felt the stir of life's passion and pain and penalty, here, now, she lost herself in a beautiful, buoyant dream. [11]
There were hours when, Ditmar's passion leaving spent itself, they achieved comradeship, in the office and out of it; revelations for Janet when he talked of himself, relating the little incidents she found most illuminating. [9]
It was only when the indignant orator "thundered and lightened" and was carried away by the heat of passion that he forgot his dignified moderation, and then how grandly voice, eye, and action helped each other! [10]
In fact, except when he had revealed his passion in the matter of the seizing of Venters, she had never dreamed he could be other than the grave, reproving preacher. [13]
Elsie was naturally what they call a man-hater, and there was very little danger of any sudden passion springing up between two such young persons. [6]
We all know what the war fever is in our young men,--what a devouring passion it becomes in those whom it assails. [6]
If a Chinaman were to see his master break up a centre table, in a passion, and kindle a fire with it, that Chinaman would be likely to resort to the furniture for fuel forever afterward. [5]
Anger and passion were both at work in him at once. [11]
I recall her well, chiefly as a sad and beautiful woman, stately save when she kissed me with passion and said that I bore my father's look. [9]
He idled away weeks and months in indolent enjoyment in the country; he indulged his passion for the theater when opportunity offered; and he began to be weary of a society which offered little stimulus to his mind. [4]
His ambition, if we may use so large a word for the sentiment that had filled his breast, had been coincident with his prenuptial passion for Honora. [9]
How strange it was that in conquest the tumult of my being should be stilled, that my passion should be transmuted into awe that thrilled yet disquieted! [9]
For Mr. Varney was right,--one could feel enthusiasm for Theodore Watling; and my growing intimacy with him, the sense that I was having a part in his career, a share in his success, became for the moment the passion of my life. [9]
The brooding paroxysm was over, or at least her passion had changed its phase. [6]
What they said was lost to us, but I could distinguish the woman's voice, low-pitched and vibrant as though insisting upon a refusal, and the man's scarce adult tones, now high as though with balked passion, now shaken and imploring. [9]
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]
When the slow voice ceased, and the room became still, she lay quiet for a moment, letting the new thing find secure lodgment in her thought; then, suddenly, she raised herself and threw her arms round her mother in a passion of affection. [11]
I had been used to chromos for years, and I saw now that without my suspecting it a passion for art had got worked into the fabric of my being, and was become a part of me. [5]
That was all until, at last, turning to her as though from some vision that had chained him, he saw the glow in her eyes, the profound interest, which was like the passion of a spirit moved to heroic undertaking. [11]
Some, indeed, stirred uneasily as the rector paused, lowering their eyes before the intensity of his glance, vaguely realizing that the man had flung the whole passion of his being into the appeal. [9]
It was the undecided battle, and the enemy, as in his noblest moments he had considered the growing passion, was getting the better of him. [6]
Probably you'll be uncomfortable, perhaps unhappy --you are certain to be if you marry to please society and not yourself --but better a thousand times one wild rush of real passion, of self-forgetting love, than an age of stupid, conventional affection approved by your aunt. [4]
There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents. [9]
Then suddenly she turned and threw herself upon the bed, bursting into a passion of tears. [11]
His face became transformed, alive with a passion uncanny in its recklessness and purpose. [11]
What spear can transfix the dragon of passion which rages here? [10]
If her hand touches mine, it is not a thrill of passion I feel running through me, but a very different emotion. [6]
Calm words, slow touch of hand, but, oh, the cry, The long, long cry of passion and of joy Within my heart; the star-burst in the sky-- The world--our world--which time may not destroy! [11]
Never, never, she told herself, would she enter a hotel again alone; and when at last he came she clung to him with a passion that thrilled him the more because he could not understand it. [9]
To know things, to understand, was a passion with her. [11]
He was devoted to the people as she was, he understood them; and for the moment their passion of humanity assumed the same aspect, though she knew that what he saw, or thought he saw, lay beyond her agnostic vision. [4]
He listened imperturbably to the outbursts against the Border Ruffian, and smiled when Mr. Abner Reed, in an angry passion, asked him to declare whether or not he was a friend of the Divine Institution. [9]
It grieves me to the heart to see it in its little storms of sorrow and passion. [5]
Well, she used to sit at her doorway and lament the sorrows of the world with a depth of passion that you'd think never could be assuaged. [11]
To see things, to look beyond the Hedge, that was to be a passion with her; already it was nearly that. [11]
Injun Joe sprang to his feet, his eyes flaming with passion, snatched up Potter's knife, and went creeping, catlike and stooping, round and round about the combatants, seeking an opportunity. [5]
He was humming to himself that song she heard an hour ago in Il Trovatore, that song of passion and love and tragedy. [11]
She gave way to her passion and demanded that the offending editor should be pursued with the utmost rigor of the law. [4]
Nefert still held to her immovable belief that her husband was faithful to his love for her, and the magic charm of a nature made beautiful by its perfect mastery over a deep and pure passion made itself felt in these sad and heavy days. [10]
He understood how to bridle passion far better than the uncle who was so greatly his superior. [10]
Now and then, to be sure, we get a different result, as in "Olivia," where all the pathos and character of the "Vicar of Wakefield" are preserved, and the effect of the play depends upon passion and sentiment. [4]
At the same time, the Scotch affection, the Scotch sympathy with a true and romantic passion, and, above all, the Scotch shrewdness, could be trusted to do what was best under the circumstances. [4]
For a long time we have intended holding a great mission with a kind of religious drama like that performed at Ober-Ammergau, and called The Passion Play. [11]
He hardly knew till this moment how much of passion mingled with other and calmer motives of admiration. [6]
What I have thought was true love, and its true passion, helped me to forget the degradation and the secret shame--only the absolute honesty of that love could make me forget. [11]
I know that this love of mine for you is my fate, the first and the last passion of my soul. [11]
The passion for this humble ornament is universal. [5]
Else, why all this blind passion to save the life of that--that...." Jane shut out the light, and the hands she held over her eyes trembled and quivered against her face. [13]
They had now thirty thousand dollars in cash, besides three thousand which the Cure had at his house, the proceeds of the Passion Play. [11]
Shelley was not thinking of love, for he was just getting over a passion for his cousin, Harriet Grove, and just getting well steeped in one for Miss Hitchener, a school- teacher. [5]
I said these things in the kindest spirit, and yet the Secretary of the Treasury fell into a violent passion. [5]
His voice was thick with uncontrolled passion, his hand was cold. [9]
Minutes passed as they studied, felt, and admired the skin, the hunter proud of his son, the son alive with a primitive passion, which inflicts suffering to get the beautiful thing. [11]
Questionings no doubt there were, and, later, serious questionings; for habit is almost as strong as love, and the old ways of life and of thought will reassert themselves in a thoughtful mind, and reason will insist on analyzing passion and even hope. [4]
When he finished there had been cheering, but in the quiet instant that followed the cheering, a habitant got up--a weird, wilful fellow who had a reputation for brag, yet who would not have hurt an enemy save in wild passion. [11]
It was that, then, that made him, for that fatal instant, forget his vow, and yield to the impulse of human passion. [4]
Every now and then a man who may be dull enough prevailingly has a passion of talk come over him which makes him eloquent and silences the rest. [6]
They never lose themselves in any cause; they never heartily praise any man or woman or book; they are superior to all tides of feeling and all outbursts of passion. [4]
There were in them determination and tenacity of purpose as well as the capability of passion. [4]
Owing, however, to their passion for imitating Europeans, they altered their manner of dressing at an early period, and the use of alcoholic drinks became very general. [1]
Again he recalled the torments which he had endured when compelled to witness how completely she yielded to the passion which drew her to Antony. [10]
The flare of the torches which illuminated the street was mirrored in eager eyes glowing with wine and passion, and in the glittering weapons of the Roman soldiery. [10]
And yet, for the time being, it had seemed attractive to him, this simple vegetable existence, whose only object was preparation for death by the extinction of all passion and desire. [4]
The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that Nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder. [6]
He hastily grasped the phial to fling it from him, but the surging passion in his veins had deprived him of his self-control. [10]
It is alike the passion of the parvenu and the pride of the aristocrat. [4]
Perhaps she guessed the passion in Lali's breast, perhaps not. [11]
In England, on the other hand, with its aristocratic institutions, racing is a natural growth enough; the passion for it spreads downwards through all classes, from the Queen to the costermonger. [6]
Bodily harm was the natural form for their passion to take. [11]
But even in the midst of these surges of passion I was conscious of the birth of a new force I did not understand, and which I resented, that had arisen to give battle to my passions and desires. [9]
Tender as were the manifestations of this love, Cynthia never guessed the fires within, for there was in truth something primeval in the fierceness of his passion. [9]
Then Barbara, with the low exclamation, "Because I, too, long for love," again offered him her lips, and he accepted the sweet invitation with impetuous passion. [10]
Every word expressed the lover's ardent longing, every line was pervaded by the passion that had filled the writer's heart. [10]
The thought of the goblet and its evil influences had by no means passed from her memory with the destruction of the vessel caused by one of those outbursts of passion to which, in these days of disaster, she yielded more frequently than usual. [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]
Hence, whoever resists the final decision of the highest judicial tribunal aims a deadly blow at our whole republican system of government--a blow which, if successful, would place all our rights and liberties at the mercy of passion, anarchy, and violence. [7]
Her voice loosed the fetters of his passion, and he dared to seize the band that lay on the arm of her chair. [9]
No passion in the face, no avarice, no anxiety, no wild desire; all gentle, tranquil, and at peace. [12]
His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. [2]

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