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  • Now, at least a few of you are going to go perfervidly huffy with me for spoiling the whole work for you.

    The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2009

  • Slowly the illiberal nature of the New Stasi Party is forming part of the narrative for political discourse now and, it is perfervidly to be hoped, for the next General Election.

    Archive 2008-08-31 2008

  • Slowly the illiberal nature of the New Stasi Party is forming part of the narrative for political discourse now and, it is perfervidly to be hoped, for the next General Election.

    Making Labour's Illiberal Tendency Part Of The Narrative 2008

  • I lost a perfervidly-minded, lapsed-Catholic friend of over forty-years standing because I refused to read a copy he gave me; long before I'd heard from our priest, but I'd read some reviews.

    In reparation for blasphemy.... Dymphna 2006

  • The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.

    Ulysses 2003

  • And he set himself to explain to her how if she were his wife she must be sacred and inviolable to all good Muslimeen, that none could set a finger upon her without doing outrage to the Prophet's holy law, and that, whoever might be so disposed, Asad was not of those, since Asad was perfervidly devout.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • The Catholic King is very devout -- perfervidly devout.

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • My suspicions as to his "science" were perfervidly justified.

    The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "She is conscience incarnate," his mother uttered, perfervidly.

    Fennel and Rue William Dean Howells 1878

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