1 Scarlett had received too many ardent love letters herself not to recognize the authentic note of passion when she saw it.
2 As if by magic, the door of the parlor opened and the wide black face of Mammy appeared, ardent curiosity and deepest suspicion evident in every wrinkle.
3 I'm going away tomorrow and I'm too ardent a lover to restrain my passion any longer.
4 He could be an ardent, almost a tender, lover for a brief while, and almost immediately a mocking devil who ripped the lid from her gunpowder temper, fired it and enjoyed the explosion.
5 The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired.
6 She was sure that Gerty knew Selden's feeling for her, and it had never dawned upon her blindness that Gerty's own judgment of him was coloured by emotions far more ardent than her own.
7 She was loyal enough but not ardent, and without ever quite intending to, she began to neglect the task as heat sucked at her strength.
8 I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.
9 As the day approached when he was to leave her for a comparatively long stay, she grew melting and affectionate, remembering his many acts of consideration and his repeated expressions of an ardent attachment.
10 Heyward ventured to hurl the tomahawk he had seized, too ardent to await the moment of closing.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 11 To these ardent and nearly innocent words Cora made no other answer than by straining the youthful speaker to her heart, as she bent over her in melting tenderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 12 At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of their ardent leader.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 13 I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
14 I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
15 She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.