FERVID in a Sentence

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For FERVID, below is one of 4 sentences:
His fervid nature could not afford to relinquish one of these, though two of the three were as many as he could hope to preserve.

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 Meanings and Examples of FERVID
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fervid
 a.  extremely hot; eager; impassioned; burning
Classic Sentence:
1  His fervid nature could not afford to relinquish one of these, though two of the three were as many as he could hope to preserve.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
2  He had once before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by the inanimate; but then it had tended to enervate a passion far sweeter than that which at present pervaded him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
3  His fervid imagination was stirred as never before, by the tramp of armies, the blood and dust of battle, and the wail and whirl of social upheaval.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
Example Sentence:
1  Her fervid enthusiasm inspired all of us to undertake the dangerous mission.