How To Use Earnestly In A Sentence

  • It was more than a year since he had been in the country; and he had to be told earnestly and more than once that a cow was a cow and a sheep a baa-lamb, for he was inclined to class them all alike under the genus gee-gee. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl
  • We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
  • My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
  • She speaks earnestly, thoughtfully and funnily about how we are all ‘differently abled ‘in one way or another.’
  • Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit. Anatomy of Melancholy
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  • Now the woman's voice came to them calling earnestly, "Sahib, sahib, sahib!" she cried. Jack Haydon's Quest
  • I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
  • The constant barrage of earnestly delivered silliness should win over even the hardest hearts.
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • Mrs. Honoria leaned her two round arms on the mezzanine rail, and looked long and earnestly down upon the caucussing lobby throng. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
  • She warned me earnestly, however, not to "worrit" the girl by asking her all sorts of questions. ' Aylwin
  • Earnestly information collecting, sorting and submit, do not significant information, omission, material misstatement.
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of life falls on him. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Saddam begins earnestly, from his position behind his desk, looking kind of natty in a light grey double breasted jacket and a white Panama hat with a black hat band, "This will take away some of the son's love for the father. Merrill Markoe: Hygiene Tips: Saddam's Forgotten Legacy
  • Tries earnestly to out-extreme the original programming at HBO, but just ends up like the wigger trying to be cool in a room full of black people.
  • I saw her gazing earnestly at her brother's portrait and all the precious little objects consecrated to his memory, which I had arranged by my benitier and crucifix, but I did not expect her firs exclamation, when our woman had left us: 'Ah! Madame, how happy you are!' Stray Pearls
  • The _caboceer_ had a house and a stock of provisions ready for his guests, put many questions, and earnestly pressed them to rest for two or three days. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
  • For the state, I am a man prejudicated in their opinion, and not the better liked of them that have earnestly followed the general, and, being one that wants both opinion and experience with them I have to deal, and means to win more or to maintain that which is left, what good may be looked for? History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete
  • They thought that nirvana was a state of "non-existence" because they earnestly believed that this was the only way for them to ever achieve a lasting state of serenity.
  • This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct; - as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature. A vindication of the rights of woman
  • MR: By the way, never before has the word "anti-depressant" been sung so earnestly. Mike Ragogna: Jill Scott's Video Exclusive, Plus Chatting With The Wombats and The Postelles, and More
  • Proteus, now looking earnestly upon her, plainly perceived that the page was no other than Julia.
  • The charity which we should thus bear to ourselves is the model of that which we owe to our neighbour, whom we are to love _as ourselves_, not with the same intensity, but with the same quality of love, wishing him the good, human and divine, temporal and eternal, which we wish for ourselves, though not so earnestly as we wish it for ourselves. Moral Philosophy
  • For instance, hundreds of thousands of non-British Canadians, who suffered in undeserved idleness during ten depression years, are today enjoying full employment, their labour earnestly courted by the nation at war. Canada and Immigration
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • And with these all as a background, one should earnestly strive to keep the unity of the Spirit.
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • David, in straits, had humbly and earnestly begged mercy of God, and God had heard him, that is, had graciously accepted his prayer, taken cognizance of his case, and granted him an answer of peace. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • I earnestly beg you to reconsider your decision.
  • We were fond of each other as children, when he first began his lessons at _cheder_," replied the girl, earnestly; "but it was only recently that he declared his love. Rabbi and Priest A Story
  • I lost count of the number of times this band was earnestly recommended to me, in reverential tones.
  • He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls. Times, Sunday Times
  • A series of photograph of two toddlers earnestly stacking a pile of blocks only to knock them back down will be accompanied by this dialogue.
  • Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain? The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • But does your foolish old hen suppose that this entire cavalcade, which is bound on an important adventure, is going to stand still while she lays her egg?" enquired the Tin Woodman, earnestly. Ozma of Oz
  • On the other hand, (we speak it advisedly,) no class of men in Europe strive more earnestly and self-denyingly to improve the condition of those dependent on them, to build good houses for their tenants, open schools for the children, and drain and fertilize the land. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
  • Resolved, That the efforts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in endeavoring to exterminate the imported pest known as the gy]) sy moth meet with our hearty ap - proval, and we, members of the farmers 'national congress, assembled at St. Paul, earnestly appeal to the congress of the United St.tes to aid our sister state in extermi - nating what is liable to be a national pest if neglected. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • My father was very opposed to papism, " she continued earnestly, -which is why, in his will, he insisted I must marry a communicant of the Church of England, or else. Sharpe's Havoc
  • A hale and hearty friend was earnestly counting the number of weekends she had left to live - given the average length of years a woman might live.
  • I hope and pray that the chastenings of our blessed Lord, in depriving us of our worldly possessions, may be sanctified to us, and lead us, more earnestly and undoubtingly, to seek for possessions in that Kingdom where all is joy, and peace, and love. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
  • This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct: as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature. 50 Chap. II
  • Dr. Latham has ever earnestly and successfully insisted on the _disciplinal_ character of grammatical studies in general, combined with the fact, that the grammatical study of one's own language is exclusively so; and having established this theory, he has, by the production of various elementary works, exhibiting a happy combination of great philological acquirements with the ability to apply them in a logical and systematic manner, enabled those who shared his views to put that theory into practice. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • To say or affirm earnestly and with great conviction.
  • In what I earnestly hope will be a source of lessons learned, a large meteor entered Earth's atmosphere near Jakarta this weekend during a terror alert.
  • It was also to be a vehicle for Dickens as an essayist, both as a fanciful observer and as an earnestly satiric social critic.
  • I laughed out loud when I read a piece on the Daily Telegraph's website which earnestly explained the meaning of "mither" for the sake of their southern readers who had never before enountered the word. piece was entitled "Steven Gerrard trial: what does 'mither' mean? Manchester Evening News Blogs
  • I think you and Mero ought to be handfasted, Shana," Valyn said earnestly, leaning forward a little. The Elvenbane
  • Holy Fire is not a sacral rite, but a sectarian battle standard and, as she earnestly tries to prove, a fraud.
  • Why I mention all this is because there's an exhibition opening tomorrow evening at the gallery which I earnestly recommend because it concentrates on new paintings of South African cityscapes and landscapes.
  • Then he knelt by a bush of gorse, told his beads, and earnestly entreated direction and aid for himself, and protection for his sister; and when the sun grew so low as to make it time for a wanderer to seek harbour, he stained and daggled his gown in the mire and water of a peat-moss, so as to destroy its Oxford gloss, took a book in his hand, and walked towards the monastery, reciting Latin verses in the sing-song tone then universally followed. The Caged Lion
  • The crowd of surprisingly young visitors staring earnestly at this great painting seemed to outnumber people in the rest of the museum. Times, Sunday Times
  • Herbert earnestly points to the fact that more than 300 economists have signed onto a statement urging policy makers not to undercut the change of recovery by focusing overzealously on deficit reduction. Allison Kilkenny: The morality disconnect
  • I know that he earnestly and seriously believes the factual content of everything he says.
  • He labors diligently and earnestly at his craft at a stage in his career when he could coast instead.
  • Through it all he "groused," but he applied himself earnestly to the task in hand and seriously complained only about his spoiled clothes. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula
  • If we see a member of the church of Christ living in obedience to the 'law of Christ,' we say he is a Christian, and speak of him as such; on the other hand, if we know he is in works denying Christ, being disobedient, we tacitly assume that he is not a Christian, yet a mawkish charity keeps us, in too many instances, from speaking out in this matter, and also keeps us from earnestly trying to distinguish the true Christian; and this is one of the great sins of the church in our times, for thus the wicked are not put to shame, and others are caused to hesitate in their graces by the conduct of those whom, in mawk charity, are called Christians. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
  • I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! his eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight — his niece, his more than daughter, whom he doated on with all that affection which a man feels, who, in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain. Chapter 6
  • Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
  • By the ministry of a faithful eunuch she transmitted to him a ring, the pledge of her affection, and earnestly conjured him to claim her as a lawful spouse to whom he had been secretly betrothed.
  • The book earnestly tracks Elizabeth's life from her family roots to the sad scattering of her possessions after her death.
  • I listen to the quiet ping-pong of him saying “Sorry” and her saying “Shhh,” both as earnestly as they can mean it. Angry Young Man
  • Chalmers, Johnson, and even Applerod wrestled with him in spirit; his friends at the Idlers 'Club "guyed" him unmercifully, and even Biff Bates, though his support was earnestly sought by the The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man
  • The pace is frenetic: women's heels click the sidewalks with conviction, mobile phones are spoken into earnestly, and cars honk their horns abusively.
  • It was earnestly hoped not. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
  • [The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of life falls on him.] "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man! English Songs and Ballads
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • Yet again and again she felt constrained to make her simple supplication, pleading earnestly for her baby's life with the God the reality of whose being and power she now _felt_, spite of herself. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best
  • Strambo, and the other intimate friends of Pasquino, having noted in what manner she used the Sage, and this appearing as her utmost refuge, either to acquit or condemne her: in presence of the Judge they smiled thereat, mocking and deriding whatsoever she saide, or did, and desiring (the more earnestly) the sentence of death against her, that her body might be consumed with fire, as a just punishment for her abhominable transgression. The Decameron
  • But he calling earnestly after me, and charging them to stop me, some of them were fain to run, and laying hold on me before I could open the door, brought me back to my place again. The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself
  • And now that repugnance is very nearly annihilated how strange it would be to say we forbid you under severe legal restrictions from using this precaution which has been so long, so diffusively, so earnestly and so effectually recommended. Letter 111
  • Ut non sit inde enatandi copia, no halcyonian times, wherein a man can hold himself secure, or agree with his present estate; but as Boethius infers, [1760] there is something in every one of us which before trial we seek, and having tried abhor: [1761] we earnestly wish, and eagerly covet, and are eftsoons weary of it. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Thus earnestly does a gracious soul desire communion with God, thus impatient is it in the want of that communion, so impossible does it find it to be satisfied with any thing short of that communion, and so insatiable is it in taking the pleasures of that communion when the opportunity of it returns, still thirsting after the full enjoyment of him in the heavenly kingdom. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • He might even pray earnestly to Saint Winifred to protect him, he had the innocent effrontery for it.
  • They also debated earnestly over how polluted and radioactive they thought the Caspian's waters were.
  • Not that he designed to oblige us to a strict imitation of him in this particular; for he might, and we may lawfully possess and enjoy these things: but to teach us not to overprize them, not to seek them too earnestly, nor love them inordinately. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.
  • I earnestly wish I could have been present at the meeting yesterday.
  • As investors tire of measly 2% returns, they could dip more earnestly into stocks.
  • Melissa Hathaway, President Obama's go-to adviser on cybersecurity, issued a rallying cry for the tech security community to begin earnestly collaborating on a "holistic approach" to slow rising cyber threats. Obama cybersecurity adviser tackles "impossible" mission
  • The crowd of surprisingly young visitors staring earnestly at this great painting seemed to outnumber people in the rest of the museum. Times, Sunday Times
  • Melissa Hathaway, President Obama's go-to adviser on cybersecurity, issued a rallying cry for the tech security community to begin earnestly collaborating on a "holistic approach" to slow rising cyber threats. Past Tech Trends & Products: Technology Live Archive
  • The band's songs are underdeveloped in the sense that they earnestly try to cram a catchy melody into every minute of every song, which dilutes the potency of the album as a whole.
  • I earnestly advised him to cooperate.
  • The regulars, sipping their habitual drinks and talking less earnestly, knew the importance of restraint.
  • to love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • She always listened earnestly as if this might help her to understand.
  • The crowd of surprisingly young visitors staring earnestly at this great painting seemed to outnumber people in the rest of the museum. Times, Sunday Times
  • So a quick note to all those friends of mine who have earnestly told me about theirs. The Sun
  • He gave me quite a lecture on the dangers of the side-saddle, and said very earnestly that women ought to ride "astride" (at that time this was a thing _incompris_ in England). Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
  • From the physical point of view, interclass or interfraternity contests, not taken too earnestly, are. far better than the intercollegiate struggles. Problems of Conduct
  • It would be impossible for the girl who had talked so sweetly, so earnestly, so straight from her heart, when he had met her on the shunpike, to marry such a mountebank as this fellow, generous as he might be with that which could never belong to him. The Captain's Toll-Gate
  • When Mary Louise first conceived the idea of banding her closest companions to support the government in all possible ways, she was a bit doubtful if their efforts would prove of substantial value, although she realized that all her friends were earnestly determined to Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
  • Dr. John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue church, then most prominent, earnestly supported the man, but in afteryears the correctness of the position taken by Market Street was abundantly proven. The Kirk on Rutgers Farm
  • The Florentines recalled the marquis of Ferrara, and engaged the marquis of Mantua; they also as earnestly requested the Venetians to send them Count Carlo, son of The History of Florence
  • They seem like ghastly old hoofers at the end of the Music Hall era: earnestly trying to edify us with a touch of the exotic.
  • In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
  • Paine states that he believes God supports the American cause, "that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by ever decent method which wisdom could invent". Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • By the police he was earnestly desired as the most dangerous murderer at large in all the north, and the lucky man who captured him, dead or alive, was sure of a sergeantcy. The Golden Snare
  • There was a queer choking sound from Nora and she walked quickly down to the other end of the drawing room and earnestly fixed her gaze upon a portrait of one of the judge's ancestors, until she could gain control of her risibles. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
  • I earnestly pray for your pardon.
  • [Sidenote: The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of life falls on him.] 'O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!' Rime of the ancient mariner
  • Philemon a favor, has to earnestly "beseech," almost command, his reception as a favor to himself. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?
  • There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful -- at least Oswald, I know, was -- than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
  • Through the early months of the year the active politicians earnestly collogued among themselves about possible candidates, and it seems there was little sign among them of that general confidence in Lincoln which a little while before had been recognised as prevailing in the country. Abraham Lincoln
  • I can cook yet, and scrub, and scour, -- I'm wuth a buying, if I do come cheap; -- tell em dat ar, -- you _tell_ em," she added, earnestly. Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • When Thor is exiled to Earth, cosmic bombast gives way to the terrestrial banality of his romance with Natalie Portman's astrophysicist, Jane, who talks earnestly about resolving her particle data and knows about Einstein-Rosen bridges, the fanciful wormholes through which bad guys and good guys alike shuttle between realms like Metro North commuters. 'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower
  • `It's part of a lullaby, you see, Mr Alberg," said Norma, leaning earnestly towards him. SLEEP WHILE I SING
  • Gerald had donned a pair of spectacles and seemed earnestly studious.
  • I beg you not miscomprehend," Nina said, somewhat earnestly, to the little landlady (for was she not a friend of Leo's?). Prince Fortunatus
  • The ladies are determined to persevere and carry on this work steadily and earnestly, until intemperance shall be conquered as slavery has been.
  • There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful – at least Oswald, I know, was – than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
  • And some pious neighbors, earnestly exhorting him to solemn concern and preparation, could not make him understand, we repeat with emphasis, _understand_ why there was occasion for any extraordinary disturbance of mind. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
  • being in an agony He prayed more earnestly (literally, more stretched out, more strainedly) and His sweat became as it were great clots of blood falling down upon the ground. Quiet Talks on Prayer
  • However, our lesson also states showing mercy by giving alms and earnestly praying elicits God's reward.
  • This I most earnestly entreat, and I know you will comply. Chapter 5
  • The sound of her gun dropping had cued him in, although Eric had tried earnestly to cover the sound with a cough.
  • Dave Wineland was and is one of the towering figures in ion trapping, so I felt a little foolish, earnestly describing to his group my modest contribution, but I soldiered on through my talk. Eric A. Cornell - Autobiography
  • It is awkward to reconcile this soft-spoken striker, holding forth so earnestly about his happiness at Meadow Lane, with the gaunt figure who, in the summer of 2007, emerged nervously from Staffordshire's Featherstone Prison into a backdraught of public loathing. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • This determination, however, perfectly consistent with his former advice, he calls indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal it, though it may govern their conduct; — as if it were indelicate to have the common appetites of human nature. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • It is earnestly hoped that you'll attend out tea party.
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  • to love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • Any collector who hopes to add the complete Bartók concertos to his/her collection is earnestly recommended to purchase this well filled twofer.
  • That matter is not rightly understood -- has never been rightly explained," said Deerslayer earnestly, for he was as zealous a friend as his companion was dangerous as an enemy; "the Mengwe fill the woods with their lies, and misconstruct words and treaties. The Deerslayer
  • Like many bands playing earnestly banal semi-derived emo schlock they've connected with an audience of disaffected youth who find comfort in their cranked up pop music and simplistic lyrics.
  • If the power of this charm were unchecked, it would re-absorb the masculine idea into the feminine, so earnestly is it desired by men. The Psychology of the Suffragette
  • Oh, but I had," said Martin earnestly, fixing the swinging ropes to their places. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • Afterwards, the veteran teaching earnestly to let me understand selfless dedication is not just a bosh, it embodied in action, more embodies in the self-surrender and understanding to the taxpayer.
  • But now, so uncertain are our tempers, and so much do we at different times differ from ourselves, she would hear of no mitigations; nor could all the affected penitence of Honour, nor all the entreaties of Sophia for her own servant, prevail with her to desist from earnestly desiring her brother to execute justiceship (for it was indeed a syllable more than justice) on the wench. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • He gazed earnestly and mournfully upon them, and when he entered his prison, again enquired concerning them, but the same inflexible silence was preserved on the subject. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
  • All the backing and shifting you do does nothing but give the impression that every time the light begins to dawn—the light that you so earnestly believe you provide for so me women—you skep desperately away from it. “I’m glad you’ve decided not to kill it”
  • There is nothing to fear for Ireland, either now or in the future, from what I may term clericalism in politics, whilst on the other hand it is earnestly to be hoped that nothing will ever happen to intrude unnecessarily the question or authority of religion in the domain of more mundane affairs. Ireland Since Parnell
  • The besuited contestant earnestly asks, "Did I win? Top Moments: Bachelorette's Bad Boy, a Weird Weiner and The World According to Palin
  • ‘I'm not kidding,’ he says earnestly to his enrapt audience.
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • Any given scientific project may be good, but it may also be earnestly pursued and gravely in error.
  • He earnestly besought that those opportunities might not be "damnified" by Calef's book. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply
  • Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters. Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
  • Beatrice smiled at him very kindly in the moonlight, for the youth in his voice appealed very earnestly to the youth in her heart, and it may be to a gaingiving that had also its lodging in her body and warned her of youth's briefness. The God of Love
  • At the place of execution, Dorothea begged the doomsman to tarry a little, and kneeling by the block, she raised her hands to heaven and prayed earnestly. A Child's Book of Saints
  • All the fabulous items and riches so earnestly sought and viciously competed for over the years, will be gone.
  • And for the same reasons is it that women are so earnestly delighted with this kind of men, as being more propense by nature to pleasure and toys. In Praise of Folly
  • to love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • Doubt strikes at the root of Justice and of Love -- not the doubt that is the half-brother to Disbelief, but the doubt which wonders always and always if we believe most easily what we _want to believe_, and if our firmest conviction against such Belief is not, more than anything else, yet one more manifestation of what we desire so earnestly _to doubt_. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
  • A lot of scholars engaging in research on department law, specialty on civil taw and administrative law pay close attention to this question earnestly.
  • There is no such thing as seeing him with indif-ference But, so earnestly invited, how could I deny; especially as my cousins were inclinable to go? Sir Charles Grandison
  • I say to you, mother, and oh, so earnestly: 'Go teach your boy that which you may never be ashamed to do, about these organs that make him _specially a boy_.' Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
  • Whether Mr. Carrollton liked "blowsy" complexions or not, he certainly admired Maggie's at that moment, and drawing her closer to his side, he said, half playfully, half earnestly: "To see you thus anxious for me, Maggie, more than atones for your waywardness when last we parted. Maggie Miller
  • Irritable said, "Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters. Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
  • She earnestly, affably discusses her self-perception and how, despite a life begun at 12 in film and music, she doesn't consider herself an artist, and how this may actually be reassuring, affording her a healthy distance form the trappings of compulsory creation of Art. Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO)
  • `It's part of a lullaby, you see, Mr Alberg," said Norma, leaning earnestly towards him. SLEEP WHILE I SING
  • Christian name; he mingled his tears with those of the patriarch, and earnestly inquired, if no hopes of relief could be entertained from the Greek emperors of the East. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha 
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • That is, if we "bode" or earnestly wish for an article or result, we will get at least something approaching to it. The Proverbs of Scotland
  • Another thing is, that out of bashfulness he do not conceal his grief; if aught trouble his mind, let him freely disclose it, Stultorum incurata pudor malus ulcera celat: by that means he procures to himself much mischief, and runs into a greater inconvenience: he must be willing to be cured, and earnestly desire it. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • He lay fifteen days earnestly expecting his hourly change; and in the last hour of his last day, as his body melted away, and vapoured into spirit, his soul having, I verily believe some revelation of the beatifical vision, he said, “I were miserable if I might not die; ” and after those words, closed many periods of his faint breath by saying often, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 100-143
  • The Athenians refused a virtuous law, because the person was vicious who proposed it; and it is generally esteemed that there is a correspondency betwixt the principles and practices of those men who earnestly profess the promotion of those principles, so that they are mutual producers and advantagers one of another. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • Emperours maiesty himselfe wil blesse and bowe, and knocke their heads before their images, in so much that they will crie earnestly unto their images to helpe them to the things which they need. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Many of the youngsters entering the arena of serious theatre now take this objective quite earnestly.
  • But nature has liberally supplied them with a fund of wit and sprightliness, which is certainly no small inducement to those, who have only transient glimpses of their charms, to wish very earnestly for a removal of those impediments, that obstruct their more frequent presence. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
  • In the fort it was decided to leave about forty men "with a provision of bread and wine for more than a year, seed for planting, the long boat of the ship, a calker, a carpenter, a gunner, and many other persons who have earnestly desired to serve your Highnesses and oblige me by remaining here and searching for the gold mine. Christopher Columbus
  • When she said this to the younger matrons of Lisconnel, they thought that the crathurs 'fate was commiserable indeed, and earnestly hoped that they themselves would be spared, plase God, to witness the splendid careers that lay before their own Denises at present playing among the puddles. Strangers at Lisconnel
  • to love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • As he traversed the streets, he called earnestly upon all who remained to rally upon the walls for their defense. The Empire of Russia
  • 'Oh, but I had,' said Martin earnestly, fixing the swinging ropes to their places. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • It is earnestly hoped that you will accomplish the matter.
  • This was the second time I've earnestly sat down to Yu Lik Wai's odder-than-odd futurist fantasy since it premiered at Cannes last year.
  • They paced the centre-alley for nearly an hour, talking earnestly: he — looking grave, yet restless; she — wearing an amazed, expostulatory, dissuasive air. Villette
  • to love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • neanderthals" all-the-while pretending to be earnestly seeking the truth. specifically, this author pretends to want to learn more about Obama's apologetic comments abroad. Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Taking this curious aphorism as the basis of his argument, he furthermore states his "grave apprehensions" that the withdrawal of any considerable number of militiamen from the city at this moment, when the depreciation of the currency is bearing heavily upon the masses of the people, "might tempt the lawless and evil-disposed to avail themselves of what might seem to them a favourable opportunity for arson and plunder," and for that reason "earnestly pretests against any material reduction" of the local force. Foreign and Colonial News
  • After a terrific downpour, the storm is over as quickly as it began, and we return to paddling along the lake, although now a chilly wind has sprung up, which if nothing else succeeds in getting me to paddle a bit more earnestly.
  • I earnestly looked through the magazine hoping to find some justification for the cover.
  • The earnestly intense and naturalistic performances, fine for Ibsen, fit poorly here and consequently come off as either dangerously self-indulgent or oddly casual.
  • Mary was a good Christian and still earnestly seeking the one thing needful, which is full salvation, or holiness of heart and life. The Theology of Holiness
  • ‘I changed the sheets and pillowcases, and I'm soaking the bloodstain out,’ Tara said earnestly.
  • The best summary for the TPT faculty is this: they seed benevolently , they water earnestly, and they fruit honestly.
  • I earnestly hope what I learned will serve me well in my new job.
  • Doubt strikes at the root of Justice and of Love -- not the doubt that is the half-brother to Disbelief, but the doubt which wonders always and always if we believe most easily what we _want to believe_, and if our firmest conviction against such Belief is not, more than anything else, yet one more manifestation of what we desire so earnestly _to doubt_. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
  • He earnestly wanted to apply these new scientific ideas to the study of human variation and human prehistory, and he set himself to learning more about them. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
  • No one with any soul can really find it funny when a rugby nation so earnestly sets about hurting itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • Paris, where he requested the Priests there abiding, to bestow baptisme on Abraham, which they joyfully did, hearing him so earnestly to desire it. The Decameron
  • Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Greenwich Village
  • Chalcedon so long as they earnestly endeavoured to teach the heathen the rudiments of the faith and to love the Lord in incorruptness. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
  • The last time I heard similar themes in an interview, someone were earnestly explaining the concept of astral flying.
  • Shentlemen," he began earnestly, "tey haf got te leetle Chew poy trunk mit giffin 'him visky, unt he hat tolt everyding. A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed.
  • The boy earnestly asked that his application be granted.
  • He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls. Times, Sunday Times
  • So now I pass my book over to _Milly_ -- and do right earnestly desire that she may be less faultful than I. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
  • As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. Jumpy beat of American English
  • To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
  • I remember earnestly asking daddy how Santa Claus accomplished this. ICED
  • December 22, 2008 3: 11 PM we are earnestly waiting for the post. i have nudged vera from the queue and im numero uno Why I blog about Africa
  • ‘You're usually not so monosyllabic,’ she told me earnestly as we walked.
  • Monday, the stuttering cow-minder, and Hacklis, the sulkiest-looking man on the place, came up and, with the brightest smiles and cheeriest manner, began to ask me so earnestly how I was, that I felt as if I were not honest if I did not mention that I had a slight headache. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
  • And I do earnestly beseech him, for the sake of his own soul, that he will consider, what it is that he can gain by his sin and impenitency, and whether it will pay for the loss of everlasting life; and how he thinks to stand before God in judgment, or to appear before the Lord Jesus, when death shall snatch his soul from his body, if he be found in this impenitent state. The Reformed Pastor
  • It is earnestly hoped that you'll attend out tea party.

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