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This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
Scepticism failed to save her from scenting danger in the ardent courtship of a rich young Philadelphian.
We're both ardent American fans of yours who enjoy obsessing over minute and insignificant details.
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
So the word "incognito" is projected on to the set and floats around ardently pursued by Julian Barratt's mayor. Government Inspector – review

a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Volume 01
an ardent lover
As she turned with ardent zeal to her work -- which indeed had not failed of accustomed conduct so far as routine went -- tell me what do you find in those lovely eyes if not the heavenliest assurances? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
From the ardent desire which you have long expressed concerning Stona's marriage, it will, I am convinced, give you pleasure to hear that the nuptials are at last solemnized. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
With the publishing success in France of her novel The Season of Lillian Dawes (Sous le charme de Lillian Dawes), they were bringing out her first novel, Private Altars (which will be called Sanctuaires Ardents here), this fall. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: On Location -- Liwan
Krishna devotees ardently look upon him as the Godhead, more emotively evocative than most of the other avatars.
I shall probably never see thee more; but in quitting thy white-cliffed shores, I quit not my ardent attachment and veneration for thee; -- and now for _thy_ eldest daughter beyond the ocean! Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)
He was an honoured Christian poet in the court of the Umayyads and an ardent propagandist of this dynasty.
At the proposed arrival of the young Queen, who was well worthy of the most ardent devotion, the "leal" heart of Scotland swelled with glad anticipation. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
The author who has written off humanity despises Picasso for contorting the human figure, and our ardent misanthropist has an official in a Swiss euthanasia clinic righteously beaten up. La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review
She shoulders a surprisingly long spear, perhaps to ward off the ardent king, although by that time she had been scarred by smallpox and he had mostly given up his advances.
It would not be accurate to describe the post–baby boomer generation as ardently pro-life, as few endorse a total ban on abortion, but they are more willing than their parents to place restrictions on abortion. American Grace
In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
Bulgarians are tolerant of other religions but are ardent supporters of Orthodoxy.
-- This morning I felt great power in prayer, and an ardent desire for full deliverance from every besetment. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York
He held numerous cabinet posts and was an ardent supporter of Mrs Thatcher.
The fire had died to a steady ardent glow.
After trying to play the Washington parlor game of the moment — "Was Alan Patricof invited?" he asked, referring to a fellow ardent Clinton supporter — Mr.
It wasn't until last year that the kibbutzniks of Degania, ardent Zionists, voted to build a synagogue.
Sensual and self-indulgent, they will pursue their pleasures as ardently and lustfully as they pursue their professional endeavors.
Roberts is a devout Catholic and is married to an ardent pro-life activist.
The show attracted not only ardent dog lovers but curious onlookers too who possessed little knowledge about the dogs.
Knowing the nature of the woman, how ardent, how impetuous she could be, and how full of wrath, he had come at her call intending to tell her the truth which he now spoke. The Way We Live Now
Bulgarians are tolerant of other religions but are ardent supporters of Orthodoxy.
He acted, indeed, as if he quite enjoyed it -- though he was careful not to show it too ardently: he had discovered that Mrs. Polly had for so long been Miss Polly that she was inclined to retreat in a panic and dub her ministrations "silly," if they were received with too much notice and eagerness. Pollyanna Grows Up
the spirit of God knew very well that there was a deeper question to be settled before there could be the intervention in power that was so ardently desired
Newman had realised that, because of cultural inequalities, many people were not ardent followers of drama as presented in the Theatre.
Yet I've always admired Doctor Who; not only for its values of intellect and empathy, but also for its often overlooked ability to explore deistic themes – both in the show and through the ardent devotion of fans. Does Doctor Who feature a god for our times? | Stephen Kelly
Stott, an ardent self-publicist, regularly appears on radio and television.
Although I was a 2000-McCain supporter and an ardent 2008-McCain opposer, I am very glad to see him make this response instead of the previous "why are you trying to call me old? McCain defends his 'bearings'
The Austrian court was dominated by the Jesuits, its government had concluded a concordat with Pius IX, the pope who ardently combated all modern ideas.
Despite the professional distance he maintains as a historian, Mr. Gilmour doesn't deny being an ardent fan of Italian culture—a devoted scholar but also a serial enjoyer of Italy. Is Italy Ungovernable?
The music is an ecstatic dance, occasionally breaking out into full-throated ardent song.
Veronica is an ardent supporter of community action in the parishes of Kilfian and Moygownagh.
But most enthralling was her attraction to two people for whom she wrote her most ardent poems.
Thus she saith! but what a woman tells an ardent amourist ought fitly to be graven on the breezes and in running waters. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
And in 1984 another eruption killed 200 people with a nuee ardente glowing cloud, a 300-kilometer-an-hour cloud of incandescent fragments and gas that roared down the mountain. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1
He inherited his barony at the age of 19 and was an ardent exclusionist, voting Lord Stafford guilty in 1680.
Also, I think gamers can be a rather stubborn, pernickety bunch, but if a game is good then I believe it will find a place within the heart of even the most ardent traditionalist. Come Out And Play
Her father happened to be an ardent Nazi, and when she begged him to excuse her from serving in the Hitler Youth, he staunchly refused her request.
Since then, he has developed an ardent passion for the instrument.
Among Southeast Asian countries, Singapore has been an ardent supporter of free trade.
Elle devint si ardente et si pressante que jamais encore je n'avais prié ainsi: je n'avais plus l'impression d'être agenouillée sur le plancher et ne ressentais plus aucune douleur corporelle. je voulais cesser de prier, mais mon ange me dit: «Continue! Archive 2008-10-19
An unrolled parchment map of the Dextral Mountains lay on a low table between them, held open by a decanter of ardent spirits, a silver bootjack, a heavy jeweled dagger, and a candlestick. Conqueror's Moon
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Mr. Warrick first apologized for presenting a paper on such a frivolous subject to men who had shown themselves such ardent advocates of the higher pharmacy, of the "ologies" in preference to the groceries, perfumeries, and other "eries. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
The son of a prosperous Hindu trader, Bhai Pheru, Guru Angad was an ardent devotee of the Hindu goddess Durga.
Formerly Melville had been an ardent democrat.
Best left to ardent fans of the films. Times, Sunday Times
As a ten year old, and through his teens, he dazzled the public with his fleet and flawless fingers, ardent lyricism and musical maturity.
Hope was an ardent supporter of the Society, and was its President from June 1859 until its dissolution after 1878.
For those cowed by all this ardent muscularity, turn to her to discover, at the last, a private Rubens, that man of exceptional refinement and sensitivity.
For Kass, the sting of death makes for stronger friendships, greater loves, more ardent learning, and nobler deeds.
Ardent bikers feel that all the action in the two-wheeler market is only an eyewash.
A self-confessed soft spot for wine and women reputedly put a hasty end to his vocation, but he is still an ardent Christian.
This great soldier was a man of many accomplishments, an ardent musician as well as a poet; and his leisure was passed chiefly in composing ballads, rondeaux, and virelays. The Book-Hunter at Home
On the cusp of restructuring family life, we cling ever more ardently to this antiquated and ill-conceived provider-homemaker design.
Her admirers were fewer, and fatter, and less ardent.
Our ears are conditioned to a man's voice in that role, leading to the ardently proffered view – even by those who imagine they're not retrograde – that the female voice is inherently unsuitable, rather than a matter of training. The landmarks and pitfalls of racing's gender agenda | Lydia Hislop
Just as this ill-fated man appeared at the culminating point of his professional fortunes, he had the imprudence to proclaim himself not only an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism as a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Complete
Tom was expected to poll well but the size of his vote took even his most ardent supporters by surprise.
He was a sceptic liberal who, in Two Cheers for Democracy, reviled Churchillian nationalism and powerfully argued the social value of being tepidly rather than ardently nationalist.
This ardent nature awoke fire beneath the ashes; the proud bearing of the Indian suited the chivalric hidalgo; and then, weary of the Spanish nobles, in whom he no longer had confidence, disgusted with the selfish mestizoes, who wished to aggrandize themselves at his expense, he took a pleasure in turning to that primitive race, who have disputed so valiantly the American soil with the soldiers of Pizarro. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
The prevailing (54) _passion_ of the A burning thirst for conquest is nation is the (54) _love of as prevalent a passion in Russia conquest_, and this (54) _ardent_ as democratic ambition in the free How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
GPIL is also setting up another 600,000 tonne pelletisation plant in Orissa through its subsidiary Ardent Steels. Analysis
When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world. Sex and the Married Man
He was however an ardent and expert fisherman, and tended to haunt waters more suitable to that end.
He acted, indeed, as if he quite enjoyed it-though he was careful not to show it too ardently: he had discovered that Mrs. Polly had for so long been Miss Polly that she was inclined to retreat in a panic and dub her ministrations "silly," if they were received with too much notice and eagerness. Pollyanna Grows Up
But now, in the woods, he shovels so ardently he is grunting.
In politics, as in war, we meet with certain ardent minds which never understand the utility of marches, counter marches, ambuscades, and affairs of outposts.
Sure, we're talking about the high teens, but these aren't the kind of markups that even ardent bears would deem unreasonable given growth rates and pedigree papers. Apple at $300 or Google at $600? - Yahoo! Finance
In one of a series of neoclassical translations of the Apollo myth, Finlay dramatises the story of Apollo chasing Daphne as the Virtuous Republic being chased by an over-ardent suitor in the guise of the young Saint-Just.
Apart from ardent enthusiasts who would go to any length to participate in public functions for various reasons, there are spectators on call who are arranged by middlemen specialised in the field.
He had been briefly married to Mary, Queen of Scots, who was herself ardently catholic and influenced by the Guise family.
But, also as a sinner, I simply don't understand how a man who long supported — consistently, ardently, proudly — abortion, contraceptives, "gay marriage", embryonic stell research, and the staggering growth and expansion of statism, could say he has "always tried to be a faithful Catholic. The funeral and the letter
The central tower of the cathedral, that fine example of decorated work, covered with its profusion of ball-flower ornament, was built by, or at any rate during the episcopate of, Giles de Braose (1200-1215), an ardent opponent of King John. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
Fleury's cunctations were disgusting to the ardent mind.
Sadly only in the eyes of the most ardent football fans. The Sun
In a piece labelled ‘The Crow Files’, the newspaper wrote, ‘It is no coincidence that the bull-necked, bullhorn-voiced Mr Crow is an ardent support of Millwall football club, whose thuggish fans rejoice in their unpopularity’.
Pagoda tree rice: International market of sunlight ? is ardent to demand of pagoda tree rice.
But the ardent and active spirit of Lady Penelope, still athirst after novelty, though baffled in her two first projects, brought forward a third, in which she was more successful. Saint Ronan's Well
Pastor Wundt, the shepherd of the Columbus church, was a sincere and ardent Christian, but his bigotry and hard-and-fast orthodoxy made him intolerant .
The path which is safe and harmless for the dull and inexcitable -- the mere animals of the human race -- is beset with dangers for the ardent, the enthusiastic, the intellectual. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired.
Clinton and Al Gore have become ardent defenders of a balanced budget and gay rights.
The blog's name Ardent Student is due the fact that I acknowledge that I am an utter learning geek - what the British call an "anorak". Ardent student
My experiences with Mazda rotaries has left me an ardent enthusiast of the engine for life.
The squaw was then ordered to fetch an earthen vessel of strong water; for so they called the ardent spirits which were given them by the Europeans, and which was even then A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six
Intemperance, in the use of ardent spirits, is now, and it is feared will long remain, a fruitful source of pauperism and misery.
I've been an ardent follower of your work and am a fellow skeptic.
It's surprising that 18 - to 30-year-olds, the most pro-life demographic in a generation, are the same voting bloc from which Barack Obama, the most antilife presidential candidate ever, draws his most ardent supporters. The Audacity of Death
Bells clanged in Abasio's head, like a tocsin ardently rung. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
I was an ardent admirer and supporter of MacBrayne's buses: they opened up the north-west for me.
The most ardent backers of the opposition were the business magnates and the armed forces.
He has never played rugby, but is an ardent fan and a supporter of the game.
My old father's an ardent royalist so I may give it to him. Times, Sunday Times
He was a leading and ardent enthusiast for the very inward investment that he now equally enthusiastically disclaims.
For years Republicans have scored points off the Democrats for refusing to let an ardent right-to-lifer address the 1992 convention.
He has equivocated, frustrating even ardent supporters like Tauzin; and when he has finally acted, it has been to prolong rather than shorten the telecom slump.
The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.
Since Michelangelo was an ardent antiquarian, all this will have been familiar territory.
Apud antiquos amor Lethes olim fuit, is ardentes faeces in profluentum inclinabat; hujus statua Veneris Eleusinae templo visebatur, quo amantes confluebant, qui amicae memoriam deponere volebant. Anatomy of Melancholy
Since Michelangelo was an ardent antiquarian, all this will have been familiar territory.
One is sure to become his ardent admirer for his humility, his performance and his good manners.
Cheney, who is known as an ardent hunter and fisherman stated, I'm tired of every liberal, socialist, pantywaist Democrat questioning the size of the trout I landed. Bill Allen: Cheney to Undergo Waterboarding
The most ardently professional historians still sought to reach a broader public through lectures and multivolume histories that explained Britain's past to a prosperous nation. A World We Have Lost
from rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes
Not even the most ardent evolutionists is willing to take on the job of convincing anyone that it took close to 7 billion years for even the first single cell life form to emerge from what can only be described as primordial slime We’re in Kansas after all, Toto « BuzzMachine
Clef, a resident of Kowdiyar in the city, hails from a family which has an ardent passion for music.
It stands to reason that the essence of this union by love consists neither in a natural union with Jesus analogous to that between soul and body, nor in a hypostatic union of the soul with the Person of the Word, nor finally in a pantheistical deification of the communicant, but simply in a moral but wonderful union with Christ by the bond of the most ardent charity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
It's not for nothing that this laureate of embarrassment is an ardent admirer of Kafka.
Gadbury, conversely, rejected his early parliamentarian sympathies, became an ardent royalist, and flourished after the Restoration of 1660.
Woolf identified in her an essential womanliness which activated the ardent and romantic side of his personality, hitherto almost entirely dormant.
As well as being an ardent botanist, Mr Taylor is also something of a historian.
The 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature was an equally ardent opposer of the 1991 Gulf War, the 2001 U.S. war in Afghanistan, who predicted the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 who called the American president a "bloodthirsty wild animal" condemning both Bush and Tony Blair as "war criminals. Jayne Lyn Stahl: Pinter
Many were held in the scientific institutions where some of the nonconformists most ardent supporters worked.
QiXianFeng manager welcome all circles to review and instruct, establish resplendence ardently.
But the chronological sequence begins with David, himself an embodiment of contradictions—an ardent enemy of the ancienne régime who sided with the extremists and was imprisoned for his association with Robespierre during the Terror, he became, essentially, Napoleon's court painter. Drawn to Revolution
Holy Ghost is a nu-disco act on DFA (the only one of the label's offerings that I consistently enjoy, actually), and I love how ardently they're embracing their derivation here. New New Order
She said Lakhan worked diligently at school and was an ardent member of the mandir and the youth group.
Yet, such a stance is exactly correct and it is shared, to some extent, almost by everybody, including the ardent egalitarians.
The council has been an ardent supporter of the scheme, which it says is essential to resolve some of the resort's economic problems.
Indeed, List, who is commonly known as the father of the infant industry argument, in fact started out as a free-trader he was an ardent supporter of German customs union – Zollverein and learnt about this argument during his exile in the USA during the 1820s Real World Economics -- Protectionism Is Not Always Wrong
Plunging into this happy conception headforemost, Mr. Goodchild immediately referred to the county-map, and ardently discovered that the most delicious piece of sea-coast to be found within the limits of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
I've never met such an ardent pacifist as Terry.
Among the most ardent of these believers is Graham Stewart, the chief executive of Aberdeen-based Faroe Petroleum - a listed oil minnow with a sizeable exposure to the west of Shetland region in both UK and Faroese waters.
Certainly there is something youthful in the image posterity holds of both composers: Mozart's impishness, Schubert's ardent drama.
He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.
But I guess that he cant do that; after all we all know that his infidelity created a doorway for Hilary's political ambitions and his guilt only makes him her ardent supporter. meck Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems
"We're not ardent environmentalists, but we wanted an environmentally-friendly home that looked good.
It is enough to say that Hamilton represents himself as by no means an ardent nympholept, or even as flattered by demi-goddess-like advances, which are of the most obliging description; and that the lady has not only to make fuller and fuller revelations of her beauty, but at last to exert her supernatural power to some extent in order to carry the recreant into her "cool grot," not, indeed, under water, but invisibly situated on land. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
And Rudy, shocked down to his adulterous Underoos, went off on a rampaging fit of Comstockery that made even ardent supporters think he was an overreaching jerkbag. December 2006
All the better, so it would seem, to throw into relief Schelling's philosophical manliness, his sturdy willingness to embrace what the aesthetes and mere pretenders to philosophy would deny, namely the irreducibility of ardent affective life. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
It's a long, long listen that delivers very few rewards for anyone except the most ardent techno enthusiast.
Admiral West joined the RN in 1965 and he was the captain of HMS Ardent during the Falklands War.
That Bolshevism was foul baboonery was obvious to any but the most ardent and simple socialist utopian. Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Tourists, with whom I had an ardent, but ungratified longing, to establish Pictures from Italy
Their most ardent devotees had arrived three hours before the band took the stage, and outside, the more adventurous ticketless followers attempted to eke out treetop vantage points, to no avail.
He held numerous cabinet posts and was an ardent supporter of Mrs Thatcher.
Gretchen, though she rejects Faust's first advances curtly enough to be called impolite, nevertheless ardently returns Faust's kiss on her first meeting with him in the garden, and already at the second A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
Saint-Saëns was an especially ardent and serious exponent of Orientalism, regularly visiting Algeria and voyaging through Egypt and even as far as Indo-China. Go East, Monsieur
Various aristocratic women round out the picture, which also includes his ardently supportive young secretary and his pert fiancée.
A native North Carolinian from a poor family with no formal education who had scratched out a living in one trade after another innkeeper, blacksmith, wheelwright, ferryman, preacher, farmer, even doctor, longtime state legislator and ardent democrat, Bloodworth represented New Hanover County in the Cape Fear region of the Tidewater. Ratification
The ardent supporters are still in denial about their candidates' chances, but that's only because they're unusually dimwitted.
About the equinox, and until the season of the Pleiades, and at the approach of winter, many ardent fevers set in; but great numbers at that season were seized with phrenitis, and many died; a few cases also occurred during the summer. Of The Epidemics
The onus is on you to be desirable company when you are with your darling - to be an ardent and tender partner, and to take a deeper interest in your union.
I am from Chennai presently living in muscat. happen to see your blog one day when i was searching for some redipes in google. from that day, i became an ardent fan for ur recipes. i love all the recipes and i am trying to do everything. Mishra Dal Dosa N Eureka Chutney
I paid tribute to Hillary, who had been working on the issue for more than twenty years, and to perhaps the most ardent supporter of the reforms in the House, Tom DeLay, himself an adoptive parent.
Heaven only knows whether I shall ever have another oppertunity or have the honour of again writing to you; be that as it may, my ardent wishes for your health and happiness will follow you in your retirement, and be com - mensurate with my existence in life. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
ardent love
The spinach, though, was another story: even the most ardent brothy-breast haters thought the Walmart spinach was fresher. The Great Grocery Smackdown
An ardent anti-communist, he advocated for millions of dollars in Defense funding to aid the development of Latin American armies, especially in El Salvador. Nestor D. Sanchez, 83; CIA official led Latin American division
Ardent majoritarians may be scandalized by the fact that 51 senators from the least populous states, representing just 17 percent of the nation's population, could defeat a bill.
He was a poet and an ardent spiritualist.
Quite independently of his Historical Matrix Model, which includes other conceptual components besides the ones I have highlighted here, Shermer is persuasive in showing how Wallace's personality and the peculiar mix of his "borderland" scientific interests (particularly mesmerism and phrenology) combined to make him vulnerable to a host of other unorthodox viewpoints, such as his ardent campaign against vaccination and his strong commitment to socialist causes. Darwin and His Doppelgänger
Nor was it confined to these ebullitions; for besides crushing a bandbox, with a bonnet in it, he seriously damaged Mr Pecksniff's luggage, by ardently hauling it down from the top of the house; and in short evinced, by every means in his power, a lively sense of the favours he had received from that gentleman and his family. Martin Chuzzlewit
Lady Burton had the tomb fitted up with an altar and other accessories, so as to make it as much like a chapelle ardente as possible, while preserving its Eastern character. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
Ditto a few years later, when the coach became an ardent convert to the principles of the triple option.
However, the fact remained that the mention of her name conjured up assorted visions-starting with Jamie kissing her ardently in an alcove at Castle Leoch, and ending with him fumbling up her nightgown in the darkness of their marriage bed, hands warm and eager on her thighs-that made me snort like a grampus and feel the blood throb hotly in my temples. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast.
From the late 1980s onwards she became an ardent advocate of the Kurdish cause.
During that period of ardent, laborious youth, he faithfully shut himself up in libraries, attended public lectures, and gave himself a solid foundation of learning, which sometimes awakened surprise when discovered under the elegant frivolity of the gay turfman. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Middle-class moralists might be ardent, even strident, but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent.
He ardently espouses the dream of an undivided Land of Israel, in the tradition of the revisionist right, which bases its claim on ancient biblical maps.
Best left to ardent fans of the films. Times, Sunday Times
I came out of a theater, where I used to spend every evening in the proscenium boxes in the role of an ardent wooer.
Her books sold in the millions and were most effective in transforming a generation of readers into ardent anti-communists and strong capitalists.
But," says one, "the traffic in ardent spirit is a lawful business; it is approbated by law, and is therefore right. Select Temperance Tracts
Fusion's most ardent enthusiasts believe that a viable power plant is 30 years away.
Helen, symbolizing perfect beauty as produced by Greek art, is recalled from Hades and ardently pursued by Faust, but finally reft from him.
LiBo manager welcome all circles to review and instruct, establish resplendence ardently.
Orientis princeps Belzebub, inferni ardentis monarcha, et Demogorgon, propitiamus vos, ut appareat et surgat Mephistophilis. Scene III
The author's estate has been the subject of countless legal wrangles in recent years, as Stephen proved himself an ardent defender of both the copyright of the author's works and the family's privacy.
Soon a rush of blood mounted to her face, making her dizzy; her perfect health, the ardent feelings of her youth, seemed to gallop like runaway colts, and she resaw herself, proud and passionate, in all the reality of her unknown origin. The Dream
An upright young man, with an ardent heart, but without wealth, and temperamentally incautious, such as you are, will always be a tool of faction, or a victim of the powerful.
Tandis, says Mably, que presque toutes les nations de lEurope ignorent les principes constitutifs de la société et ne regardent les citoyens que comme les bestiaux dune ferme quon gouverne pour lavantage particulier du propriétaire, on est étonné, on est édifié que vos treize Républiques ayent connu à la fois la dignité de lhomme et soient allé puiser dans les sources de la plus sage philosophie les principes humains par lesquels elles veulent se gouverner. Washington and the French. III. III
an ardent supporter of European unity.
The ardent flames raged ceaselessly for days, crumbling Troy into dust and so after years of bitterness, strife and wars the Greek had finally defeated the Trojans.
An ardent student of the country, he offers depictions of India's cultural achievement that reinforce his horror before a destructive system of plunder, extortion, and corruption.
I consider myself an ardent feminist, butfor the record I loved (and still love) the traditional Disney films and I was never a “tiara-wearing maniac”. 2010 February « There’s More to this than Waves
frightened by his ardent burning eyes
He was an ardent Royalist and supporter of the Bonrbons.
John Duncan was born in Athy in or about 1785 and unlike his brother Thomas he became an ardent adherent of Methodism.
Sadly only in the eyes of the most ardent football fans. The Sun
The ardent crusade to preserve wilderness was a stunning volte-face from Americans' previous deliberate destruction of it.
The kids will find out that what you so ardently disagree with is "stand on your own feet," "take responsibility," and "make high grades," and they will wonder if you are dishonest or just easily fooled. Pawlently takes aim at Obama's address to students
Wonderfully encapsulates the complex manner in which the term spirituality has taken on various meanings within the Christian tradition … Those who are interested in learning more about the major movements in the Christian tradition are sure to find this book a wonderful introduction into learning more about thinkers who have ardently longed to attain wisdom. AvaxHome RSS:
And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories, and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas. Chapter 2
The ardent longing for some being above us, on whom we can lean when our own powers fail, -- the wonderful instinct which desires a faithful friend to whom we can tell every joy and sorrow without fear of disclosure, the thankfulness with which we behold this beautiful world and all the rich blessings we have received -- these are the feelings which we call piety -- devotion. An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04
He was an ardent student of the classics, especially of Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, a devotee of liberty of thought, and an amateur of art.
I am an ardent rail fan of the type known as a "foamer" and would love to see fast and easy downtown rail to D.C. But like many visions, new urbanist or whatever, the hard reality of funding can really dampen things. Richmond's rail dilemma
Thus I promised myself, as I journied towards my destination with roused and ardent expectation: expectation of the fulfilment of all that in boyhood we promise ourselves of power and enjoyment in maturity. I.3
Newman had realised that, because of cultural inequalities, many people were not ardent followers of drama as presented in the Theatre.
Some of the president's most ardent arch-conservative supporters are fired up for battle.
The Quaker, an ardent Federalist, aided Antifederalist opposition to the Constitution by repeatedly raising objections to the slave trade clause.

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