passionate

• The following letter explains his views on the subject TO GENERAL MY GENERAL You will immediately arrest the Count of K. and Captain W. The count is young, passionate, and influenced by wrong notions of birth and a false spirit of honour. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• They were passionate--they were stubborn--they were cruel True--and therefore were they peculiarly under my charge. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
• We can recall the passionate, agitated excitement with which Rose's illness is described--the hanging on the doctor's sentence, &c.--a; reminiscence certainly, and we have only to look at the sketch by Cruikshank of his friend (given in my "_Bozland_") to recognise the likeness to Oliver. —  Pickwickian Studies
• But Hervey also says that Argyll was "haughty, passionate, and peremptory," and it cannot be doubted that he was capable of almost any political tergiversation, or even treachery, which could have served his purpose; and his purpose was always his own personal interest. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)
• Amid all the wild, passionate, and savage surroundings of Bangalang, Esther--the Pariah--was the only golden link that still seemed to bind me to humanity and the lands beyond the seas. —  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

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