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  • Thus, in the Western philosophical tradition, occasionalists in the proper sense of the term emerge in earnest in the wake of René Descartes (1596 “ 1650) in the form of “Cartesian occasionalists”. Occasionalism
  • I collapsed in laughter and began tickling him in earnest.
  • Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest
  • But this pressure can only be effective if the people are in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death. The Reformed Pastor
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  • It is more than ten years since ministers turned their attention in earnest to the country's 388 further education colleges. Times, Sunday Times
  • Typically, presidential campaigns do not begin in earnest until Labor Day, after both parties' nominating conventions.
  • In the City of Elua, the revelry would begin in earnest that day, and by evenfall, the salons of reception would be overflowing in the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers, as Kushiel's Avatar
  • She spoke lightly, but it was obvious that she was very much in earnest.
  • Billy had said this in joke, for he had never conceived of such a thing as a spring of hot water, but he found that his jest might have been said in earnest, for the spring was almost "bilin '," and caused the Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
  • The Conservative leader tells the paper that while he was "outflanked" by Clegg in the TV debate, voters will dismiss the Lib Dems as a serious contender once they learn more about the party's policies. says Labour is now "wooing" Clegg "in earnest" amid mouting speculation there will be a hung parlaiment. The Guardian World News
  • Economic decline could begin in earnest before 2050 as the ageing population outstrips the workforce required to pay for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such a policy would change the atmosphere and call the Abkhaz bluff -- forcing them to negotiate in earnest and confront the issue that holds the key to their future status: Abkhaz responsibilities to their prewar Georgian population. Bullies of the Caucasus
  • The songs are washed in earnest clean rhythm guitar and nice, glimmering production.
  • The latter smirked, then renewed the fight in earnest.
  • She would, with malice aforethought, stop a plow to send Sarah to a quilting, and then, the Captain's foot would come down in earnest, and he'd "wonder whether there was a woman in the world that wouldn't lose a crop to give her daughter a sugar-tit! Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
  • It is more than ten years since ministers turned their attention in earnest to the country's 388 further education colleges. Times, Sunday Times
  • I never did, but I was a late bloomer, and had not yet begun to date in earnest by the time I was sixteen. DOWNTOWN
  • Efforts to lift the mood of despair on the factory floors began in earnest yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • This version did receive approval and the weekly cycle of episode recording commenced in earnest.
  • Begging to be excused for a moment, he passed away into the rearmost quarters of the bank; whence, after an appreciable interval, he returned again in earnest talk with a superior, an oldish and a baldish, but a very gentlemanly man. The Wrong Box
  • both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate
  • It opens in 1860—when Garibaldi and his patriotic troops land in Sicily, and the Risorgimento that will ultimately produce a unified Italy begins in earnest. A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World
  • The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  • Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.
  • Laurie, in her ecstatic state, executed a pirouette, and began to sing in earnest.
  • We will begin the process in earnest once we have issued our preliminary results in March. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. Sam Levenson 
  • Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest
  • Allotted 45 minutes for the predebate "walk-through" in Miami, Kerry took 43, asking to see a "freeze frame" of him standing at the podium, engaging in earnest debate over neckties. TALKING THE TALK
  • And now, in the hope that there may be one or two men here who are really and not counterfeitly in earnest to clothe themselves with humility before God and man, let them take these two looms to themselves out of which whole webs of such garments will be delivered to them every day -- their past life, and their present heart. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
  • Since she began gigging in earnest this summer, the response has been ecstatic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Back at Ms. Crosland's small studio in a gritty industrial building, they all go on what she calls "the bush"—a large, messy pinboard that reminds Ms. Crosland of a hedge and feeds her "digestive system" with fermenting ideas until the design process starts in earnest. Bringing Home the Walls of Marrakech
  • What they should be doing in earnest is forming opinions, not about me but about GM and what this company is doing that is ... hugely beneficial to the causes they so enthusiastically claim to support," he said in a posting titled, "Talk About a Crock. GM exec repeats, global warming 'total crock of sh**'
  • The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest. The Men Who Made England
  • Quotable Quote : Humor has been defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
  • The seven-year odyssey transformed the world in earnest by giving to science a new form for the globe - that irregular spheroid today called the geoid.
  • Beside the playhouse was the "house in earnest," which has become a "belilaced cellar hole," and, behind it, a brook "Too lofty and original to rage. 'Hard to Understand, but Easy to Love'
  • Inside the cervecerίa there are couples making out, fingers strumming a guitar, a voice singing, mohawks twinned in earnest discussion, play and sound, muggy lighting. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
  • After routine but pleasant trips to San Francisco and New York in June, I began my outer journey in earnest this summer with a first time visit to Santiago de Chile. Karen Talavera: The Importance Of The Outer Journey
  • With the school Easter holiday imminent - traditionally the moment when the tourist season kicks off in earnest - visitor attractions around the region are revealing their new crowd-pullers.
  • Sure enough, the sledging kicked off in earnest at Bristol in the first NatWest Series encounter between England and Australia.
  • When I looked over, he was in earnest conversation with his father.
  • The company has announced that it will start developing rollable displays in earnest.
  • The story of Yorkshire dialect began in earnest in the fifth century AD with the arrival on these shores of the Angles, Saxons and other Germanic migrants from what is now northern Germany and southern Scandinavia.
  • Then _this_, "and he pointed at the maskalonge," broiled on a pointed stick, with a handful of checkerberries for dessert, and I think you and I will be about ready to begin work in earnest! Darkness and Dawn
  • And nightly I did return; my feet again trod the daisied meadows of England; the song of her birds was in my ears; I wept with delight to find myself once more wandering beneath the fragrant shade of her green hedge-rows; and I awoke to weep in earnest when I found it but a dream. Roughing It in the Bush
  • They stop doing this for the final chorus, then resume in earnest for the outro.
  • After I was symbolically poked as a sacrifice to the gods of successful IV cannulation, the ritual began in earnest ... J-gan Diary Entry
  • He took up drinking in earnest as a young artillery officer on his way to World War I when he discovered that alcohol miraculously transformed him from an awkward quarryman's son to a sophisticated boulevardier.
  • Rehearsals began in earnest in August and the first act is now nearing completion.
  • Allegro vivacissimo having been made, Chung advances upon the frenzy she will attain quite stealthily, then the wild dance can begin in earnest. Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • After torrential rain on Thursday, the site was drying out in the sunshine yesterday as the music kicked off in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
  • This version did receive approval and the weekly cycle of episode recording commenced in earnest.
  • Stamp collecting began in earnest soon after the issuing of the Penny Black. Stamps of Wild Approval
  • Matthews was in earnest conversation with a young girl.
  • Vives said in a jest of a silly country fellow, that killed his ass for drinking up the moon, ut lunam mundo redderet, you may truly say of them in earnest; they will act, conceive all extremes, contrarieties, and contradictions, and that in infinite varieties. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And the hunt is in earnest for good old George.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Also on Friday night there was plenty of fun and frolics with the ever-popular wheelbarrow race making a welcome return while it was in many of the local pubs that the festival kicked off in earnest.
  • ‘There is a sort of jesting which is very much in earnest, and includes some pretty serious disgust,’ said Martin. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • His job as England manager begins in earnest now his World Cup campaign is in motion.
  • Readying these soldiers for active duty is a tough mission that begins in earnest upon reporting to mobilization stations.
  • After torrential rain on Thursday, the site was drying out in the sunshine yesterday as the music kicked off in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
  • He sent me one this week which, in earnest, is as pretty a thing as I have seen, a China trunk, and the finest of the kind that e'er I saw. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
  • And not merely in naturalness of manners, but also in moral elevation, in guileless sincerity, in delicate regard for the feelings even of enemies, in true devotion to the good of their fellow-men, especially to the cause of the poor and oppressed, and in earnest religious faith, were these men twin-brothers. Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln.
  • This liberal muscularity campaign began in earnest when Michael Dukakis cartoonishly donned combat fatigues and a helmet and rode a tanker to inglorious defeat in the 1988 presidential campaign. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists?
  • He once again considered the cost of having new beds for the med center installed - and then he woke in earnest.
  • He and Pat hit it off and Dave began studying natural horsemanship in earnest.
  • A natural mesomorph, Huh weighed 200 pounds before he even picked up a barbell in earnest and his body responded well to weights.
  • But this pressure can only be effective if the people are in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eleven years of age, she had at last begun to grow in earnest: her legs were as of old mere spindleshanks, but nearly twice as long; and her fat little body, perched above them, made one think of a shrivelled-up old man who has run all to paunch. The Getting of Wisdom
  • I love not to make disqualifying speeches; by such we seem to intimate that we believe the complimenter to be in earnest, or perhaps that we think the compliment our due, and want to hear it cither repeated or confirmed; and yet, possibly, we have not that pretty confusion, and those transient blushes, ready, which Mr. Greville archly says are always to be at hand when we affect to disclaim the praises given us. Sir Charles Grandison
  • Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest
  • Such a policy would change the atmosphere and call the Abkhaz bluff – forcing them to negotiate in earnest and confront the issue that holds the key to their future status: Abkhaz responsibilities to their prewar Georgian population. Bullies of the Caucasus
  • A campaign has begun in earnest to persuade The Vatican to declare a former curate of Clonmore Parish Holy.
  • And ye shall know that we may dissemble, I meane speake otherwise then we thinke, in earnest as well as in sport, vnder couert and darke termes, and in learned and apparant speaches, in short sentences, and by long ambage and circumstance of wordes, and finally aswell when we lye as when we tell truth. The Arte of English Poesie
  • The cascade of revelations that revved up HUAC in earnest really began with Elizabeth Bentley, who defected from the CP in 1945. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
  • In the countdown to war, the aluminium tubes remained in the political spotlight and the fight between the US intelligence agencies was now on in earnest.
  • This version did receive approval and the weekly cycle of episode recording commenced in earnest.
  • A vain man, a soldier and a scholar, pedantic, irritable, but in earnest; a complimenter of Emperors, a leader of the reform party, a partisan of Luther's, the friend and correspondent of Erasmus, the elective brother of Dürer. Albert Durer
  • While swordplay done in earnest is now a thing of the past, a wealth of information regarding stab wounds to the heart has been accumulated in recent times by the practitioners of modern forensic medicine.
  • Indeed, as an interviewee, he replies first comedically, then in earnest, uneasy if more than a minute from a gag. Times, Sunday Times
  • Priests of the Roman Church have in past centuries found themselves, sometimes under episcopal direction, in earnest battle against perceived local superstitions and impious social customs connected with holy wells.
  • Once the action starts in earnest and the stunt doubles do their thing, the film is entertaining enough.
  • Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. Sam Levenson 
  • The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  • Finally, in 1971, the Mary Rose was definitively located and the process of recovery and restoration began in earnest, culminating in the raising of the ship 1982.
  • A true departure from Greek precedents was the manner in which mathematics of the nineteenth cen - tury set out, in earnest, to deal with infinity — especially with the infinitely large — by confrontation and actu - alization. INFINITY
  • Oh, but I had," said Martin earnestly, fixing the swinging ropes to their places. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • Get the popcorn ready and pull up a chair, when the corruption at the SEC goes mainstream, the bloodbath will commence in earnest. by brisa (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments) on Monday, Jan 21, 2008 at 8: 59: 06 PM Bloody Tuesday? Global Markets See Worst Day since 9/11.. US to Follow?
  • While he recovers, Gary's constant jealousy finally drives his wife Tess to cheat on him in earnest.
  • To solve this problem we arranged to bring in teams of volunteers at night who began the task in earnest - time was running out.
  • The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  • He was sitting in the teashop with some companions, engaged in earnest conversation. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • I'm hoping my piano tutor book will arrive tomorrow, too, or the day after, and then I can begin work in earnest.
  • The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  • The project will begin in earnest later this year, with three ethnographers tracking and videotaping one family every other week.
  • Soon rain was falling all around them - sprinkles at first, then rain in earnest, then torrents.
  • For a good few minutes the poor pigeon struggled with his measly prize, nibbling at it in earnest, each peck accidentally flinging it over his head and way behind him.
  • He flexes his elbows in earnest to begin curling the weight at a moderate pace, under control.
  • Comment: “Strictly a fastballer at one time, he started to throw a curve in earnest in 1962, and is now an artist at low snapping hooks.” The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
  • He was sitting in the teashop with some companions, engaged in earnest conversation. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Economic decline could begin in earnest before 2050 as the ageing population outstrips the workforce required to pay for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • But when she heard that the artist was exhibiting on Merrion Square in Dublin on a recent Sunday, she made her way there in earnest.
  • A devoted churchwoman, James discusses her religious formation and her faith in her recent memoir, Time to Be in Earnest.
  • This version did receive approval and the weekly cycle of episode recording commenced in earnest.
  • I love not to make disqualifying speeches; by such we seem to intimate that we believe the complimenter to be in earnest, or perhaps that we think the compliment our due, and want to hear it cither repeated or confirmed; and yet, possibly, we have not that pretty confusion, and those transient blushes, ready, which Mr. Greville archly says are always to be at hand when we affect to disclaim the praises given us. Sir Charles Grandison
  • Make a few test recordings before you start the session in earnest.
  • Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest
  • Many City lawyers took last week off and work resumed in earnest only yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • This version did receive approval and the weekly cycle of episode recording commenced in earnest.
  • Efforts to lift the mood of despair on the factory floors began in earnest yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many City lawyers took last week off and work resumed in earnest only yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • she started studying snakes in earnest
  • If there be anything which he has not practiced, or his practice fails in earnestness, he will not intermit his labor. The doctrine of the mean
  • Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.
  • The police authorities of New York appear now to be thoroughly in earnest in carrying out the municipal enactments forbidding expectoration in public places.
  • 'Oh, but I had,' said Martin earnestly, fixing the swinging ropes to their places. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • As the socks and sprocket and all that came with them disappeared in earnest down the block, I flipped the plunger in the air, allowing exactly one revolution, grabbed it by its wooden handle and went inside to get dressed for the day in store. Yard Sailing
  • We do not have the right to find retreat in earnest indecision.
  • But she would have fallen off anyway once the hunt started out in earnest.
  • Barlow was led up to the king, who hailed him "King of Shoreditch," a title borne by the champion archer ever after, so long as bowmanship in earnest lasted. The Armourer's Prentices
  • Though something exceptional in the moral quality of Captain Vere made him, in earnest encounter with a fellow-man, a veritable touch-stone of that man's essential nature, yet now as to Claggart and what was really going on in him, his feeling partook less of intuitional conviction than of strong suspicion clogged by strange dubieties. Billy Budd
  • Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest
  • Since there is a certain earnestness and intensity ... Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn
  • Making due allowance for that good-natured raillery which is one of the spices of existence, it may be truthfully said that anyone who laughs in earnest at the West calls attention merely to his own shallow conceit. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
  • She resolved that nothing, come what would, should tempt her to swerve one iota from the straight line of truth; she resolved to be more careful of her private hour; she thought she had scarcely had her full hour a day lately; she resolved to make the Bible her only and her constant rule of life in every thing; – and she prayed, such prayers as a heart thoroughly in earnest can pray, for the seal to these resolutions. The Wide, Wide World
  • Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest
  • Their main problem is the failed fiscal policy and unending bailout, which countries with so-called liberalized financial markets are following in earnest, while still bashing Japan for the exact same thing. Latest Articles
  • Half in earnest we waved our hands to them and shouted our greetings to them in the native -- punda milia, kongoni, pa-a, fice, m'pofu, twiga, simba, n'grooui, and the rest. African Camp Fires
  • The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest. The Men Who Made England
  • And ye shall know that we may dissemble, I meane speake otherwise then we thinke, in earnest aswell as in sport, vnder couert and darke termes, and in learned and apparant speaches, in short sentences, and by long ambage and circumstance of wordes, and finally aswell when we lye as when we tell truth. The Arte of English Poesie
  • Her robust, earthy attractiveness roared back to life in earnest as she responded warmly to his embrace.
  • When the breezes started in earnest around 11, reports of the wind chill factor had us at minus-17.
  • I have not wooed in earnest," he said carelessly, and hitched forward his cloak of sky-blue tuftaffeta with an air. To Have and to Hold
  • The children began in earnest by first drawing a neat margin on the chart paper they were provided with.
  • Building has begun in earnest on the metal skeleton for the northern section of Manchester's new-look Arndale shopping centre.
  • He was speaking in the wake of growing concern by holidaymakers worried about what will happen when the conflict begins in earnest.
  • Daylight's muscles tautened a second time, and this time in earnest, until steadily all the energy of his splendid body was applied, and quite imperceptibly, without jerk or strain, the bulky nine hundred pounds rose from the door and swung back and forth, pendulum like, between his legs. Chapter III
  • When I looked over, he was in earnest conversation with his father.
  • They began house-hunting in earnest and in May, according to estate agents, found a suitable property in Connaught Square, not far from Marble Arch in central London.
  • The most important formality in English law, in making contracts for the sale of goods, with which a broker must comply, in order to make the contract legally enforceable by his principal against the third party, is contained in section 4 of the Sale of Goods Act 1893, which (in substance re-enacting section 17 of the Statute of Frauds) provides as follows: -- "A contract for the sale of any goods of the value of ten pounds or upwards shall not be enforceable by action unless the buyer shall accept part of the goods as sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or _unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract be made and signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf_. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • The hunt for All-Ireland hurling tickets has begun in earnest throughout the parish especially those townlands that adjoin the County Cork villages of Tullylease, Milford and Freemount.
  • The next venture was a jumble-sale which caught the imagination of so many and began the fund-raising in earnest.
  • He took up drinking in earnest as a young artillery officer on his way to World War I when he discovered that alcohol miraculously transformed him from an awkward quarryman's son to a sophisticated boulevardier.
  • I thought he was joking - I didn't realize he was in earnest.
  • Human prudence is not willing to perform every duty in earnestness and humility, and trust the rest to Providence. The Mother's Book
  • His shot missed but the hunt was joined in earnest. THE HUNTING OF MAN
  • The feast at an end, Powhatan called his councilors to his side, and while they were in earnest debate Captain Smith knew only too well that his fate was hanging in the balance. Ten American Girls From History
  • A chance gift of seeds from Captain James Mangles, horticulturalist, accompanied by the request to supply native specimens in return, prompted her to botanise in earnest.
  • When the band finishes the stage is quickly cleared, and the club night starts in earnest.
  • 'No, you can't put it aside while the man with the title lives, not even if you're running off in earnest, under a dozen Welsh names. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Hopefully next week I will have many good reports of tailor and bream, maybe even blackfish, as the season is about to begin in earnest.
  • It tells the story of an era-the time when Canada was founded, the search was on for the Northwest Passage, and the race for the North Pole began in earnest, and the time of the Metis rebellion and the Klondike gold rush.
  • The city's offshore yuan market began to develop in earnest beginning in mid-2010, when China relaxed regulations on the use of its currency outside the nation and essentially unpegged its currency from the U.S. dollar. Bank of China's Hong Kong Unit to Remain Sole Yuan-Clearing Bank
  • In recent years the fabric of the building began to show signs of decay and in 1997 work began in earnest to rectify the damage.
  • A noisy courtship begins in earnest in November, with squawking, prancing, and strutting.
  • Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest
  • Sun, traditionally a company that revolved around hardware, is now turning in earnest to architecture and software, he said.
  • From the Eagles' perspective, the run into the finals is going to be an absorbing affair, as August is traditionally the time when players apply themselves to the task in earnest.
  • Recently, the Park attracted teals even before it started raining in earnest.
  • Then it was inside to start the jamming in earnest, taking up residence upstairs with Ted's father George and some of his band members, including their wonderful and absolutely poker-faced mandolin player.
  • The cascade of revelations that revved up HUAC in earnest really began with Elizabeth Bentley, who defected from the CP in 1945. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
  • If Leferic misjudged, and his liegemen began plotting treachery in earnest, he would need force to quell them. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
  • Ay, indeed," cried the Robin earnestly; "it is faithless work to give advice which you will not follow yourself. Parables From Nature
  • Their boxed lunches brought in enough money that Arthur could begin saving again in earnest.
  • I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard.
  • Mr. Shuey started studying cane moves in earnest about 10 years ago while practicing hapkido, which incorporates stick fighting at advanced levels. Everybody Is 'Cane Fu' Fighting
  • The next day, we all commenced in earnest our studies in navigation and seamanship, the naval instructor with his assistants working us up in our mathematics and imparting to us the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry; while the boatswain and his mates gave us practical lessons in the setting up of rigging and making of knots, so that there should be no chance of our mistaking a "sheepshank" for a "cat's paw," or a "Flemish eye" for a "grommet! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
  • Make a few test recordings before you start the session in earnest.
  • So the countdown begins in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a sob of relief she began to cry in earnest against his shirt.
  • I paid scarce attention to them as the movie began in earnest, showing a cobwebbed crypt, bathed in silvery moonlight.
  • We will begin the process in earnest once we have issued our preliminary results in March. Times, Sunday Times
  • In Jackson's second term the antislavery movement began in earnest; the Whig party was organized and named; the national debt was paid off, and the surplus distributed. A School History of the United States
  • Then her fingers, interdigitated with his, tightened; she started to ride him in earnest. The Perfect Lover
  • Quotable Quote : Humor has been defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
  • A good many, however, remained behind -- some because they did not like fights, some because they did not believe that the parties were in earnest, others because they were too much taken up with and oppressed by their own sorrows, and a few because, being what is called fuddled, they did not understand or care anything about the matter at all. Charlie to the Rescue
  • The mayhem will then being in earnest as the gang intimidate the natives and wander through the bar hustling the bar tenders and drinking pre prepared shots - neat of course!
  • BK-based K125's a custom dip operation from a lifelong salsa enthusiast who's been doing her thing ever since she could "mash mass-marketed salsa with an avocado", but started in earnest after she besottedly agreed to enter NY's Guactacular competition and came home with the People's Choice award, which unlike the Teen Choice award doesn't always go to the cutest pico de guy-o. Thrillist: Kitchen125: Custom Dip...Delivered
  • And if you are in earnest, is there nothing you have to do besides praying? The Wide, Wide World
  • The Fur Trade began in earnest in medieval times in Europe, when it involved the hunting of European animals to stock the wardrobes of the nobility and royalty.
  • His shot missed but the hunt was joined in earnest. THE HUNTING OF MAN
  • The action gets under way in earnest today with a triple bill of matches. Times, Sunday Times
  • Typically, presidential campaigns do not begin in earnest until Labor Day, after both parties' nominating conventions.
  • The work on the house will begin in earnest on Monday.
  • Then the insidious eating away of energy and self-esteem begins in earnest.
  • If the emerging markets do not start to seriously revalue, trade war and protectionism is bound to begin in earnest. Western Governments' Addiction To Credit And The Rise Of China
  • From the foregoing, it is apparent that preparations for the 2006 general elections have began in earnest and our prayer is that they go on smoothly so that we have an election with little or no hurdles at all.
  • With this laconic threat, which he accompanied with a snarl that gave him the appearance of being particularly in earnest, Mr Quilp bade her clear the teaboard away, and bring the rum. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • The action gets under way in earnest today with a triple bill of matches. Times, Sunday Times
  • I pitied the poor fellow, he was so deeply in earnest; but all the same I could not help laughing.
  • Hopefully next week I will have many good reports of tailor and bream, maybe even blackfish, as the season is about to begin in earnest.
  • For though it's a challenge, it's a rewarding one, and the thrill and pleasure of coasting down the other side more than makes up for the hour spent pedalling in earnest to reach the peak.
  • Apart from the hundreds of claims pegged out by individual diggers, there were several claims being worked in earnest by companies.

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