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  • He gradually came to perceive the greatness of the religious and yet free ideas, the immense, serene, and unfevered mysticism which permeated the priest's whole mind, the every action of his daily life, and his whole outlook on the world, -- leading him to live in Christ, as he believed that Christ had lived in God.

    Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

  • At Campobello there were not more than half enough young men, and there was not enough flirtation to affect the prevailing social mood of the place: an unfevered, expectationless tranquillity, in which to-day is like yesterday, and to-morrow cannot be different.

    April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

  • In the pure heart of a girl loving for the first time -- love is far more ecstatic than in man, inasmuch as it is unfevered by desire -- love then and there makes the only state of human existence which is at once capable of calmness and transport!

    Eugene Aram — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In the pure heart of a girl loving for the first time -- love is far more ecstatic than in man, inasmuch as it is unfevered by desire -- love then and there makes the only state of human existence which is at once capable of calmness and transport!

    Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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