He must be no less in earnest in his search for souls than they in search for gold.

You get no earnest of me, Sir, and so farewel to you.

There was something very natural and earnest about himno pose.

" These few words could have removed the mis-undertakings rooted in the minds of those that at San Remo, if they were in earnest for a just solution.

The usual formula gone through upon these occasions is as follows: Citizen approaches the scene of interest, and sees crowds of spectators upon each side; he glances at the workmen, and, after taking stock of both them and the overseer, proceeds to read the opinion of his fellows in their faces, after which he settles down in right earnest with his hands in his pockets for a prolonged stare.

The Boy sat up, eager in his advocacy and earnest as a judge.

Sprinkled among the Germans are several Americans, more grave and more in earnest than even their Teutonic neighbors, for they are straining their attention to detect a familiar German wordsuch as "Mein Herr," or "Ach."

Still, any kind of effort-making is better than inaction, and there is something sublime in seeing men working in dead earnest at anything, pursuing an object with glacier-like energy and persistence.

There's not above a Dozen, besides the Slaves that are chain'd to the Oar, and those Dozen, a Pistole apiece wou'd not only make 'em assist in the design, but betray it in earnest to the Grand Seignior; for them I'll undertake, the Master of it being Pier de Sala, your Father's old Servant, Sir.

" Before the month was over the football games began in earnest on the athletic field.

When this is printed I shall send it to her, and it may be that she will read it and grow earnest over it, and that her heart will be touched, and that she will never again deserve the name she merits now.

In tone and temper they leave nothing to be desired; they are neither hot with zeal nor rash with controversial eagerness; but they are calm without coldness, earnest without extravagance.

The encounter now began in earnest between Prussia and Austria for the prize of ascendency.

" Joe proved himself to be in earnest by wheeling round and making straight for the thick wood as fast as his horse could run.

For, while he, lover-like, was grave and earnest during the small remainder of the evening, she continued to be sprightly and gay.

From your great cities and teeming prairies, from your learned altars and countless cottages, from your palaces on sea and land, from your millions on the waters and your multiplied millions on the plains, let one united cheering voice meet the voice that now comes so earnest from the South, and let the two voices go up in harmonious, united, eternal, ever-swelling chorus, Flag of our Union!

The traces of hurried work are of light account when they are the guarantees that a man is not sitting down to draw a picture of himself, but stating his case in sad and deep earnest out of the very fulness of his heart.

And the old monk raised the psalm, "Quare fremunt gentes," and his voice rose and fell through the flowery recesses and dripping grottoes of the old gorge, sad and earnest like the protest of the few and feeble of Christ's own against the rushing legions of the world.

Thrown off their guard by M'Kay's jocular and cordial manner, the soldiers grounded their muskets, and began to enter in earnest into the conversation which he was promoting.

He was a pale-faced young man, with sparkling eyes, sedate and earnest beyond his years.

Lancelot evidently meant it as such, but he eyed her all the while as if there was solemn earnest under the surface. 'Oh, Mr. Smith!'

well, brother, if it be, I fear 'twill prove an earnest unto me.

"There is a certain medicine called prayer, Mr. Thurnallan old specific for the heart-ache, as you will find one daywhich I have been neglecting much of late, and which I must return to in earnest before midnight.

" "It is said that thou earnest among the gondoliers in the late regatta, and that, but for this aged fisherman, thou would'st have been winner of the prize?" "In that, rumor hath not lied, Signore.