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Sentences starting with passionate
- Passionate as his words were, his manner was strangely quiet, but his white and glistening face and his burning eyes showed how deep was his anger. [11]
- Passionate tears came to her eyes at the thought of the humiliation she had suffered,--and before him, of all men. [9]
- Passionate sympathy echoed in every word, was expressed in every feature, and she listened as if a great happiness was in store for herself when he disclosed the hopes which he based upon the statue of Arachne. [10]
Sentences ending with passionate
- Milton had been speaking of "Logic" and of "Rhetoric," and spoke of poetry "as being less subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. [6]
- Lise's were filmed, like those of a dog whose head is being stroked, expressing a luxuriant dreaminess uncomprehending, passionate. [9]
- Philostratus at first heard violent language issuing from the mouth of Theocritus and the other courtiers, and the artist's answers were not less passionate. [10]
- Gering's defence was able, proud, and sometimes passionate. [11]
Short sentences using passionate
- Jasmine made a passionate gesture. [11]
More example sentences with the word passionate in them
- In his hottest youth he could not have made such passionate motions of affection. [11]
- Just so with your passionate incandescence. [6]
- I was a young man then, a youth like any other, only more passionate, more restless, and fiery than they. [10]
- This paper was written in a great heat and with passionate indignation. [6]
- The orator's passionate words and gestures evoked wild responses from his hearers, whom the drag of an ancient hatred had snatched from the peaceful asylum of the west. [9]
- The passionate tenderness with which his mother received him did not please the sixteen-year-old officer. [2]
- As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it. [2]
- Yet she yearned with passionate fervour to see Hermon again, and when he was once there all must be well between them. [10]
- Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
- Had she gone with him and quitted her without bidding her farewell because the young heart was possessed with a passionate love for Publius--who was indeed the most lovable of men? [10]
- She was listening with eager attention, with passionate expectation; her convulsively clenched toes betrayed her. [10]
- And the person who has no interest in things is the person who once had a great deal of interest in things, who had too passionate an interest. [11]
- The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
- The quiet longing which had mastered him was transformed into passionate yearning, but he restrained it by exerting all the strength of will peculiar to him, for a voice within cried out that he was too insignificant for this marvellous maiden. [10]
- It was open when Dyck first saw it, because she was singing little bits of wild lyrics of the hills, little tragedies of Celtic life--just bursts of the Celtic soul, as it were, cheerful yet sad, buoyant and passionate, eager yet melancholy. [11]
- His heart too was overflowing with passionate delight. [10]
- But his purpose was not fulfilled, for suddenly, flaming with passionate wrath, she thrust the purse aside, groaning: "Not an obol of the accursed destruction of souls shall come back to Hanno, nor even into the family store. [10]
- At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
- To-day John had voluntarily approached the stranger to whom he owed his life, but whose passionate caresses at their first meeting had frightened him, to show her the little wooden horse that Adrian had just given him. [10]
- And all this vast, passionate love of mine is the strife of the soul for peace, for fruition. [11]
- A passionate longing urged her to remove the cloth, but the boldness of the act restrained her. [10]
- But this was unnecessary, for he had scarcely assented to the question ere, with passionate vehemence, she ordered him to destroy before her eyes the cup which had brought so much misfortune. [10]
- Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that whole mass of men was concentrated. [2]
- The old woman told the whole story of Elsie, of her birth, of her peculiarities of person and disposition, of the passionate fears and hopes with which her father had watched the course of her development. [6]
- She loved him to-day, loathed him tomorrow, and did both with all the ardor of her passionate heart. [10]
- Though scarcely able to speak, he tenderly called her name, but she made no reply; like Iras and Charmian, she was exerting her whole strength at the windlass in the most passionate effort to raise him. [10]
- It was sweet to lie thus, to possess, as her very own, these precious, passionate memories of life lived at last to fulness, to feel that she had irrevocably given herself and taken--all. [9]
- The passionate resolve to compel him to reproach himself in soul for his merciless, if subtle, indictment of her to bring him to the old place where he had knelt in spirit so long ago--ah, it was so long!--came to her. [11]
- This man appeared to be in very good circumstances, for he always wore patent-leather boots, and a large diamond ring on his finger; but with his vivacious, even passionate temperament, he trampled in the dust the things I had always revered. [10]
- He besought Nemesis to be content, and not add to blindness new tortures to augment the terrible ones which rent his soul, and he did so with all the ardour of his passionate nature. [10]
- He saw that to admit her contentions would be to behold crumble into ruins the structure that he had spent a life in rearing; and yet something within him responded to her words--they had the passionate, convincing ring of truth. [9]
- Just at that time Selene also left the city, and now Arsinoe's longing for her old friends grew to a passionate craving to see them again. [10]
- But the bare thought of having so soon lost the power to bind him to her aroused a storm of feeling in her passionate soul, and when it subsided bitter thoughts followed, and a series of plans which, on closer examination, proved impracticable. [10]
- His heart dictated this, but honour, too, commanded him to restore to the maiden and her sister the fair fame which his passionate impetuosity had injured. [10]
- Yet she dreaded this meeting with an intensity plainly revealed by the passionate throbbing of her heart and the panting of her weakened lungs. [10]
- It was for these things he longed, these things made him yearn with such passionate eagerness for deliverance, liberty. [10]
- When one of them threatened to leave me in Damascus when I had the cholera, he had no real idea of doing it--I know his passionate nature and the good impulses that underlie it. [5]
- I can imagine their placid existence if the Prince should not appear, and I can well believe that Irene and Stanhope would have many a tumultuous passage in the passionate symphony of their lives. [4]
- For an instant their looks fused and were lost in a passionate affiance. [11]
- If he--" Here the youth hid his face in his hands in passionate emotion; but, feeling his sister's arm round his shoulder, he recovered himself, and went on more calmly: "Well, you heard that she was dead. [10]
- She had watched the tiny fragments burn in a fire not hotter than that in her own eyes, which presently were washed by a flood of bitter tears and passionate and unavailing protest. [11]
- She looked at the sightless eyes, and a passionate protest sprang to her lips which, in spite of herself, broke forth in a sort of moan. [11]
- Once when resisting the pressure and the threats of war of a foreign diplomatist, he had, after a trying hour, written to Faith in a burst of passionate complaint, and his letter had ended with these words. [11]
- He shuddered as the passionate notes swept over his senses. [11]
- Yet the esteem, the love of the man to whom her heart clung, whom she worshipped with all the fervour of her passionate soul, might be at stake, and when he now seized his hat to withdraw she barred his way. [10]
- Or was it that the singular change which had come over her had involved her passionate fancy for him and swept it away with her other habits of thought and feeling? [6]
- He prayed with that passionate and shamefaced feeling with which men pray at moments of great excitement arising from trivial causes. [2]
- He realised now that he had given Kathleen only what might be given across a dinner-table--the sensuous tribute of a temperament, passionate without true passion or faith or friendship. [11]
- I am afraid that a lightsome disposition and a relish for humor are not so common in those whose benevolence takes an active turn as in people of sentiment, who are always ready with their tears and abounding in passionate expressions of sympathy. [6]
- Her voice rose sweet and clear, and penetrated all hearts with its passionate pathos. [5]
- After I have suffered before the world--" He threw up his arms with a passionate gesture. [11]
- She felt a submissive tender love for this man who would never understand all that she understood, and this seemed to make her love for him still stronger and added a touch of passionate tenderness. [2]
- Standing motionless, he strove for words, while his eyes revealed plainly enough the passionate rapture which agitated his soul. [10]
- There was a strange apathy in his senses, an emotional stillness, as it were, the atrophy of all the passionate elements of his nature. [11]
- Hear her sad story: She says that when she was sixteen years old she met and loved, with all the devotion of a passionate nature, a young man from New Jersey, named Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers, who was some six years her senior. [5]
- But though she still retained a portion of her former affection for Wolf Hartschwert, she loved the Emperor Charles with passionate fervour. [10]
- The Oriental recklessly squandered her once noble gifts of intellect and the wealth of her people, yielded to the hasty impulses of her passionate nature. [10]
- It was the sort of face from which one might expect passionate love or unflinching martyrdom. [4]
- As she spoke, she thrust her head forward with the vigour of a passionate counsel. [11]
- Bending over him, she lavished words of love; but when, in passionate excitement, he sprang from the couch to draw her toward him, she changed into the Nemesis to whose statue she had just prayed. [10]
- In the schwabeln she had trusted herself to his guidance even longer than usual, and with what perfect time, with what passionate enjoyment she had whirled around with him under the sway of the intense excitement which had mastered her! [10]
- With passionate eagerness she entreated the emperor to grant a pardon, but he cut her short with the request not to interfere in matters which he alone had to decide and answer for. [10]
- Selfish, stubborn and self-centred he was in much, but he had great joy in the natural and sincere, and he had a passionate love of Nature. [11]
- Suddenly I was seized with passionate, vehement regrets at the sound of the applause. [9]
- 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]
- She was surely seeking protection and aid from him, to keep her promise and resist her lover's passionate appeal. [10]
- In imagination she saw him there, a straight, slim, handsome figure, with the very vanity of proud health upon him, and ambition and passionate purpose in every line of his figure, every glance of his eyes. [11]
- Ay, she was roused to fury, and yet she felt how completely this passionate resentment contradicted her whole nature. [10]
- After that, young Rostov took no further part in any business affairs, but devoted himself with passionate enthusiasm to what was to him a new pursuit--the chase--for which his father kept a large establishment. [2]
- As she finished reading her account, she exclaimed in the passionate tones of the deepest conviction, "There, doctor! [6]
- She had a proud, passionate nature; she rebelled at this. [11]
- But as she prepared to cross the forecourt, suddenly, without warning, the priests' chant swelled to a terrible, almost thundering loudness, the clear, shrill voice of the Temple scholars rising in passionate lament, supported by the deep and threatening roll of the basses. [10]
- Time, bitterness, and power had hardened Philip's mind, and his long-restrained emotions, breaking loose now, made him a passionate and wilful figure. [11]
- During the first period of their acquaintance Bolkonski felt a passionate admiration for him similar to that which he had once felt for Bonaparte. [2]
- For a moment Pauline stood motionless in the middle of the room, her gaze fixed upon the door which had just closed; then, with a wild gesture of misery and despair, she threw herself upon the couch in a passionate outburst of weeping. [11]
- Bequeathed to the passionate, young enthusiast, who made it whisper his hidden love, and cry his inarticulate longings, and scream his untold agonies, and wail his monotonous despair. [6]
- Said to be passionate, if irritated. [6]
- She was a passionate, defiant, changeful creature, it is true, yet her nature was noble, hostile to baseness, and what a wealth of the purest and deepest feeling echoed in her execution of solemn songs! [10]
- Had you one passionate touch Of Nature there had been rain. [11]
- He had a passionate love for the land--for England--which had given him birth; and he had a decent pride in her honour and good name. [11]
- Bitter need and passionate longing gazed defiantly, beseechingly, and threateningly at the people who crowded round the window. [10]
- It was a passionate longing for Selene that drove him up and down, and his wish to see her again crystallized into resolve, and prompted him to contrive the ways and means of meeting her once more before the Emperor's return. [10]
- What a stormy, passionate little heart it is! [10]
- What obscure and passionate impulse had led her suddenly to defy and desert him, to cast in her lot with these insensate aliens? [9]
- He knew the passionate excitement, fairly well controlled; he saw her bitterness at a glance. [11]
- They are as passionate and agonized in their entreaty as though old Typhon were even now about to swallow the moon, and the greatest catastrophe was hanging over the world. [10]
- I remembered his passionate affection for Antoinette, I imagined that he would not listen calmly to one who was in some sort connected with her unhappiness. [9]
- An early and passionate affection attracted the young man to his charming playfellow; the more ardently he cherished his faith the more fervently did he desire to win her for his wife. [10]
- A variety of painful sensations raised a hot vehement storm in her bosom, which checked her breath, and at last found relief in a passionate and convulsive weeping that shook her whole body. [10]
- Her fingers crept over the keys, playing snatches of things she knew years before, improvising soft, passionate little movements. [11]
- He preached some other kind of religion, and he was quick an' passionate, where Frank was slow an' mild. [13]
- She was as one through whose veins had passed an icy fluid which stilled all the senses of desire, but never had her mind been so passionate, so alive. [11]
- Also said that on the way down from La Crosse he had inspected and examined his boat so diligently and with such passionate interest that he had mastered the whole thing from stem to rudder-blade. [5]
- Was the adventuress of whom Wilhelm had spoken, the only creature whom she loved with all the ardor of her passionate soul? [10]
- Her former fear of this proud and powerful being had indeed changed into a passionate admiration. [10]
- The majority, spite of the passionate hostility of the informer, voted not to expel me, but to exclude me from the examination this time, and advise me to leave the school. [10]
- We are full of righteous and passionate indignation. [11]
- But, in spite of all, she controlled her passionate feelings, made the same deep obeisance to Nitetis as to the queen-mother, and allowed her tears to flow fast and freely in sight of all the Achaemenidae. [10]
- The passionate stirring of a soul, whether it be the result of joy or of sorrow, among us moderns covers its features with a veil, which it had no need of among the ancients. [10]
- In this October number many of the redeemed testify and give thanks; and not coldly, but with passionate gratitude. [5]
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