593 examples of enthusiast in sentences

The internal evidence, from the man's account, is that he was an honest enthusiast.

"But it only costs a dime, which is little enoughthe hired enthusiast, indeed, stationed just outside the entrance, reminds us over and over again that it is only 'the tenth part of a dollar,' and he sometimes adds that 'it will neither make nor break nor set a man up in business.' He is a flagrant optimist in small money matters, ever looking on the bright side.

To the mere antiquary, this celebrated city cannot but long continue interesting, and to the classic enthusiast, just liberated from the cloisters of his college, the scenery and the ruins may for a season inspire delight.

He undertook to ring the changes once more in its praise; not like a hireling pleader, but as an enthusiast in a most worthy cause.

The noise, the revelry, and the dissipation which he witnessed, led him to thoughts of seriousness and self-reproach; and the enthusiast heard, or persuaded himself that he heard, an inward voice, calling on him to forsake his parents' house, and to make himself a stranger in his own country.

"Forbear!" cried the enthusiast, placing himself between the earl and Amabel, both of whom recoiled at his approach.

The awful warning of Solomon Eagle so alarmed Quatremain, that he let fall his prayer-book, and after gazing vacantly round for a few moments, staggered to one of the stalls, where, feeling a burning pain in his breast, he tore open his doublet, and found that the enthusiast had spoken the truth, and that he was really attacked by the pestilence.

"You are looking upon that structure," said the enthusiast, "and are thinking how much it is changed.

" Leonard's heart was too full to make any answer, and the enthusiast, after a brief pause, again addressed him.

" "I have just left the cathedral, and was told he had proceeded to some house near Cornhill," rejoined the enthusiast.

"I can," replied the enthusiast.

"Do not question me, but leave me," rejoined the enthusiast.

"Do you know aught of Amabelof her retreat?" persisted Leonard, who had a strange misgiving that the enthusiast's errand in some way referred to her.

" "Ah!" exclaimed the enthusiast, starting as he beheld Amabel.

The old woman instantly retired, and Amabel briefly related her hapless story to the enthusiast.

"Doctor Hodges," replied the enthusiast.

At last, one of the chirurgeon's assistants told him that he thought the doctor was gone towards Cornhill, and hoping, accidentally, to meet with him, the enthusiast set off in that direction.

Had In Memoriam been then written, a more exact parallel might have been found in Tennyson's warning to the young enthusiast: "See thou, that countest reason ripe In holding by the law within, Thou fail not in a world of sin, And ev'n for want of such a type.

If all cognition, as Locke suggests in objection to his own theory, consists in perceiving the agreement or disagreement of our ideas, are not the visions of the enthusiast and the reasonings of sober thinkers alike certain?

Generous, charitable, liberal of thought, he was the gentlest enthusiast in other men's behalf that ever the sun shone on.

Do you just sit down and write it straight off?" I justonly justpulled myself up in time as I remembered that Sylvia was an enthusiast of twelve whose own efforts had already caused considerable comment in the literary circles described round the High School.

Without the zeal of the 'enthusiast,' whom they severely scanned from afar, and seeking in all things to prove that Christianity was so 'reasonable' as to be identical with 'rational philosophy,' it is little wonder that when the popular mind began to be stirred by a religious 'Revival' they were not its apostles, but mostly its critics.

Who that knew that pure enthusiast, Dr. Harris, but remembers the accustomed lamentations of the entomologist over the departure of these winged companions of his lifetime?

"How can he refuse this to me, coming to him, as the request will, from my grave?" rejoined the lovely enthusiast.

Shelley, betrayed by the impulses of his enthusiast nature and the ignorant and deplorable credulity of a bookworm, allowed himself to be imposed upon by a designing boarding-school girl and her relatives, and everything followed as a matter of course.

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