1 A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.
2 Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name.
3 The rest of us walked out on the porch, where Sloane and the lady began an impassioned conversation aside.
4 Flushed with his impassioned gibberish he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
5 I conjured him, incoherently, but in the most impassioned manner, not to abandon himself to this wildness, but to hear me.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 6 The warm and impassioned exhortations of Cedric had as little effect upon his impassive temper, as red-hot balls alighting in the water, which produce a little sound and smoke, and are instantly extinguished.
7 It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned interchange of talk.
8 How many of those impassioned but temporary embraces were destined to become perpetual was possibly the wonder of some of those who indulged in them, as well as of Eustacia who looked on.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 9 All she wanted to know was whether he wrote impassioned letters to his wife.
10 Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness.
11 It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid irritation.
12 He looked at her and was struck by the serious impassioned expression of her face.
13 Maximilian uttered a cry of delight, and, springing forwards, seized the hand extended towards him, and imprinted on it a fervent and impassioned kiss.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch. 14 As to my own will or conscience, impassioned grief had trampled one and stifled the other.
15 Gulf impassable, and a quiet sort of resentment on either side.