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  • Vehemence among House progressives is also at a fever pitch, though it always is.

    To the ObamaCare Barricades 2010

  • Vehemence shook strands loose from the careful confinement of her ringlets.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • Vehemence shook strands loose from the careful confinement of her ringlets.

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

  • Vehemence of character counts for more than completeness of doctrine, and they crave a battle-cry, not a dissertation.

    Voltaire 2007

  • “Tell her,” cried Norman, in a wild burst of eloquence, “that, like two grasshoppers in a volcano, we are shrivelled up in the presence of Her Spangled Vehemence!”

    A Tangled Tale 2003

  • Vehemence in dissent is traditional, but fouling your own nest always seems desperate.

    'A Badly Flawed Election': An Exchange Fried, Charles 2001

  • Vehemence An Appeal to the Centurions and soldiers, complimenting them with the Epithet fortissimi Viri [illegible] made with so solemn and vehement a Repetition Vos Vos, and feeling with so much sensibility, the

    John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966

  • This afternoon, the four Battallions of the Militia were together, and Mr. Dickinson mounted the Rostrum to harrangue them, which he did with great Vehemence and

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 February 1776 1963

  • We should report with the least Ennergy in it, or the least tendency to a necessary discipline of the Army, would be opposed with as much Vehemence as if it were the most perfect: We might as well therefore report a compleat System at once and let it meet its fate.

    John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

  • Vehemence and impatience can do harm to the best causes, and the lives of men like the Napiers and the Lawrences, like Thomas Arnold and Charles Kingsley, like John

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

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