ardor

• Whether because of the noise we made and their seeking safety in flight, or because they were off "taking holiday"{1} as the negroes claimed, no hares were found, and after a half-hour our ardor was a little dampened. —  The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908
• Barrymore has evoked, so we may call it, a cold method--against a background of what could have been overheated acting or at least a superabundance of physical attack--the warmth of the play's tender sentimentalities; yet he covers them with a still spiritual ardor which is their very essence, extracting all the delicate nuances and arranging them with a fine sense of proportion. —  Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• At the time of the Rebellion he was seized with a military ardor, and when the different volunteer corps were forming in Dublin, that of the lawyers was organized. —  The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
• The seeds of my ardor were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the Æneid, mother to me and nurse to me in poetry. —  My Ántonia
• Canon Pascal threw himself into the movement with ardor, and the five months elapsing before he set sail were filled with incessant claims upon his time and thought, while all about him were drawn into the strong current of his work. —  Cobwebs and Cables

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