He is a man of intensely earnest convictions, gifted with extraordinary powers resulting from that peculiar combination of physical and spiritual qualities known as the prophetic temperament.

After the contest is over, you may commonly see the combatants walking and talking very sociably together: but as this circumstance makes them a little suspected by the public, they affect the greater rage when in conflict, and occasionally quarrel and fight in downright earnest.

" "Tim, couldn't yees make the s'arch wid me?" asked Teddy, in a deeply earnest voice.

It was plain that he was in earnestin deadly earnest, so it seemed.

"Out of the sea thou earnest," Opee-Kwan chanted oracularly, "and back into the sea thou goest.

A fellow usually does when he goes at it real earnest.

There was no mistaking his astonishing sincerity, his painfully earnest endeavor to impart to her some rather unusual ideas in which he certainly believed.

The gentleman under review is a pre-eminently earnest man.

As a lowely earnest, I give this curtesie before, And in conceite I give ye twenty more.

"'Well, keep as straight as you can; don't give up trying, my boy,' he'd tell me, mighty earnest, and I'd feel ashamed of myself clear around the corner.

Lestrange was oppressively earnest, but he was always good-natured.

What can I do about it?" Looking into her passionately earnest face it was perhaps the gulf between the girl and his a priori idea of her brought the smilea smile no kin to that hard smile of his.

She had been persistently earnest, passionately honest, absurdly grim.

Like all strong Catholics he has much venerationthat "organ," speaking in the vernacular of phrenology, is at the top of the head, and you never yet saw a thorough Catholic who did not manifest a good development of it; he is strong in ideality; has also a fine, vein of humour in him; can laugh, say jolly as well as serious things; and is a positively earnest and practical preacher.

" "But, believe me, I don't at heart," said Charteris, in a queer earnest voice.

My father on that occasion was remarkably earnest in asking that the life of his friend might be lengthened, as in the case of Hezekiah.

That seems a far-fetched explanation for the shortcomings of men so frankly realistic and so scientifically earnest as the masters of the Cinque Cento were.

The hasty and seemingly earnest action of the people and authorities of South Carolina was looked upon as a historical repetition of the nullification crisis of 1831-32; and without examining too closely the real present condition of affairs, men hoped, rather than intelligently expected, that the parallel would continue to the end.

Mr. Slate was a tiny, careful, smoothly-earnest man, consistent and faithful as a minister, made more for quiet sincere work than dashing labour or dazzling performance;

The command of the air fluctuates, but the spirit of our airmen is a sure earnest that the balance will be redressed in our favour.

This exceedingly amusing but terribly earnest caricature of the sentiments of the High Anglican party at first deceived and alarmed the Dissenters themselves.

How many there are, for instance, who are, or seem tolerably earnest about religion, and doing good, as long as they are actually in church, or actually talking about religion.

You! SCENE SECOND THE BLACKBIRD, THE PHEASANT-HEN, later CHANTECLER THE PHEASANT-HEN [Panting, tragically earnest.

"His style of preaching," we are told by Mr. Wooll, "was unaffectedly earnest and impressive; and the dignified solemnity with which he read the Liturgy, particularly the Communion Service, was remarkably awful.

The boy's voice and eyes were unusually earnest.