vehemences

Were there not truth in this observation, is it possible that my brother and sister could make their very failings, their vehemences, of such importance to all the family?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Then commenced a battle with utmost vehemences that made the hair stand on end, between the formidable Rakshasa and the troops of

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

She brought to it ardours and vehemences that she would never have allowed to love.

The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912

She was herself the heart of the charmed circle, poised in the ultimate unspeakable stillness, beyond death, beyond birth, beyond the movements, the vehemences, the agitations of the world.

The Flaw in the Crystal May Sinclair 1904

She brought to it ardours and vehemences that she would never have allowed to love.

The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904

But the perception only roused in himself some slumbering tenacities and vehemences of which he had been scarcely aware.

Marriage à la mode Humphry Ward 1885

But he was absorbed in his own reflections, and gave only half an ear to the gasping vehemences which Mr. Daffy poured forth for the next ten minutes.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

No, the difficult thing here is, not to get even the fervors of prayer, but to get the life itself and its works into that honest and deliberate agreement with the prayers, that will give them a genuine power and meaning, without any such flights and passional vehemences.

Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

Were there not truth in this observation, is it possible that my brother and sister could make their very failings, their vehemences, of such importance to all the family?

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725

Left alone with her child, the face of the wretched mother softened as she regarded him, and all the levities and all the vehemences -- if we may use the word -- which, in the turbulent commotion of her delirium, had been stirred upward to the surface of her mind, gradually now sank as death increased upon her, and a mother's anxiety rose to the natural level from which it had been disturbed and abased.

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838