Passion was the dominant side of a man declaring itself, and that was a matter of inheritance.

" 'She looked at the tuft of clover, And wept till her heart grew light; And at last, when her passion was over, Went wandering into the night.

Piero was not introspective, but he doubtless knew that his ruling passion was to achieve whatever purpose he might choose to set himself.

In her old age her ruling passion was hatred of Walpole.

This prince was nowise turbulent or factious in his disposition: his ruling passion was to amass money, in which he succeeded so well as to become the richest subject in Christendom: yet his attention to gain threw him sometimes into acts of violence; and gave disturbance to the government.

In that case, no doubt, the maternal passion was the source of a credulity that blinded the old lady to the flagrant evidence of the fraud.

The latter passion was gratified to as great a degree as was possible.

These, I say, were the dictates of reason and religion; but the tender passion was not always to be silenced by them, and whenever she was alone, the tears, in spight of herself, would flow, and she, without even knowing she did so, cry out, Oh du Plessis, wherefore do I live since thou art dead!

Their passion was too clean for fear or remorse or shame.

His passion was ready to flame up if he touched her, and he was afraid.

If love tarried, passion was awakethat dangerous passion, too, to which the intellect has added its intoxication, and that is, so to say, legitimised by an 'idea.'

"You will easily believe, that I was pleased with his courtesy: and, finding, that his predominant passion was desire of money, I began now to think my danger less, for I knew that no sum would be thought too great for the release of Pekuah.

No boy bought for the gratification of passion was ever so wholly in the power of his master as you were in Curio's.

I was convinced then that a grand passion was a folly.

I have shown by this time that certain musicians have been most excellent lovers, and there would be documents enough to prove Wagner another, but we know it for a fact that his one great passion was for his art.

" At a public meeting held subsequent to their liberation, the teacher of the Africans made a statement as follows:Their ruling passion was a love for home; and their desire to return thither was constantly manifesting itself.

Miss Sneyd's conduct was more than he could well endure, after all his previous disappointments; and he went to bed with a fever that did not leave him till his passion was cured.

Little by little these galling reports revived the military spirit in an Elder far to the south, who had thought that all passion was burned out of him.

Whether or not she suspected my passion was a question about which I had never been able to satisfy myself.

This passion was as distant and as pure as ecstasy.

If you would measure the distance Europe has travelled, think what this means: all the nations of Christendom united in a war lasting 200 years for the capture of the Holy Sepulchre; and yet, when in our day the representatives, seated round a table, could have had it for the asking, they did not deem it worth the asking, so little of the ancient passion was there left.

Although Duke Charles would not encumber himself with provisions for his men, he carried a vast train of carts filled with plate, silk tents, rich rugs, and precious jewels; for, with all his bravery, this duke's ruling passion was the love of display in the presence of foreigners.

It was struck down in a moment, for to me to doubt was sin, and to have doubted on the very eve of the Passion was an added crime.

At that moment he knew what passion was.

" Again that quick note of passion was in his voice, and she tingled at the sound, for though she knew so well that he was wrong something that was quick and passionate within her made instinctive response.