1 The less zealous English thought they conferred a sufficient honor on its unsullied fountains, when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover.
2 Sam was there new oiled from dinner, with an abundance of zealous and ready officiousness.
3 Nor was Eva less zealous in kind offices, in return.
4 Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it much serious consideration.
5 He has served the Colonel for five years as jockey and for seven as trainer, and has always shown himself to be a zealous and honest servant.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 6 Arkady has become zealous in the management of the estate, and the 'farm' now yields a fairly good income.
7 This icon of the Venerable Sergius, the servant of God and zealous champion of old of our country's weal, is offered to Your Imperial Majesty.
8 He predicted the same fate to attraction, whereof the present learned are such zealous asserters.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII. 9 Nothing had come of her zealous intervention; nor could I infer, from what he told me, that any clue had been obtained, for a moment, to Emily's fate.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 10 At the same time you will find your friends less zealous on your behalf, since to them you will appear either weak or cowardly.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. 11 The helpful inmate had departed, without one backward glance to gather up the meed of gratitude, if any were in the hearts of those whom she had served so zealously.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 12 In the promotion of this object she was zealously active, as far as her ability reached; and missed no opportunity of projecting weddings among all the young people of her acquaintance.
13 He zealously undertook to do so, and to intercept any newspaper through which it might, without such precautions, reach him.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS 14 It seemed to him that ever since he had been left without a wife, he had in these very projects of reform been serving the Lord more zealously than before.
15 Seeking the garden, she limped around the ruins, by the trampled rose beds the Wilkes girls had tended so zealously, across the back yard and through the ashes to the smokehouse, barns and chicken houses.