earnest,

The Queen replied, with an expression betwixt mirth and earnest,

Kenilworth 2004

Papa then greeted ourselves, and said that if we stayed much longer in the country we should become lazy boys; that we were growing quite big now, and must set about doing lessons in earnest,

Childhood 2003

Straightway you take up my words, that are plain and direct and in earnest,

Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

Whereat the maiden smiled, and said between laughing and earnest,

Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

The men whom he trained and on whom he set the stamp of his stern, earnest,

Early European History Hutton Webster

Christ, for help in all those difficulties and anxieties which have been recited in Section i.; and to make this appeal more earnest,

The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

You are reminded that the authoress writes with a purpose, as well as a power, that the earnest,

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

With a creak and a thud the big car landed, reeled drunkenly, and straightened out in earnest,

Trailin'! Max Brand 1918

But I believe I do truly feel that if my beloved sons are good and worthy of the name they bear, are in fact true, earnest,

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

Course, we didn't know how far these two young couples would get towards reformin 'New York, but they sure was in earnest,

Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907