fervid

• “Here the middle-aged poet recalls the fervid dreams of his youth and thinks of them under the image of airy sprites attending his rushing chariot, like the Hours in Guido's picture.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

• “His letters are not the ardent, passionate, romantic epistles recalling the fervid style and thought of the _Nouvelle Héloïse_.”

  The Court of the Empress Josephine

• “But lo! the sun recalls his fervid ray, And cold and dim the wat’ry visions fail; While o’er yon cliff, whose pointed craggs decay, Mild Evening draws her thin empurpled veil!”

  The Romance of the Forest

• “In the fervid atmosphere of the late 60s, not everybody recognized to what extent this was true.”

  The Guardian: Rock's fake rebels

• “Grand total: 305 hp. The fervid, overreaching exhaust note is what a very fine sports car would sound like if it got a hernia.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing

• “His hair, by contrast, he wore with a sharp side part and a fervid rectitude, as if all his phony honor depended on it.”

  Excerpt: In the Kitchen by Monica Ali

• “All in all, Christopher Allen has crafted another fun fan film, creating a credible revival of a show beloved by a fervid fanbase.”

  Quantum Leap / Princess Diana fan film Debuts | Fan Cinema Today

• “The birds were assembled beneath leafy shade, or made short, languid flights in search of food, all save the majestic buzzard; with broad wings out-spread he sailed the warm air unwarily from ridge to ridge, seeming to enjoy the fervid sunshine like a butterfly.”

  John Muir

• “The name and space of Barbara Stratton 's TriBeCa lunch counter might have changed, but the homey food—and its fervid fans—have remained the same.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Soups, Salads and Sandwiches

• “So I took a keen interest when, at the fervid climax of the health-care debate in mid-December, a Washington Post blogger, Ezra Klein, declared that Senator Joseph Lieberman, by refusing to vote for a bill with a public option, was apparently “willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands” of uninsured people in order to punish the progressives who had opposed his reelection in 2006.”

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