Probably the news of Darius' flight had reached Mazæus, and had damped the ardor of the Persian right wing, while the tidings of their comrades' success must have proportionally encouraged the Macedonian forces under Parmenio.

Defeat cooled his ardor for a few days, but taught him the great lesson that there were other fanged and flesh-eating animals besides himself and that nature had so schemed things that fang must not prey upon fangfor food.

No cold Can chill its ardor!

Their natural courage required no long words to excite its ardor; but they should be reminded of the paramount importance of steadiness in action.

And then at his orders the Mongols had set to work, and I noticed that they displayed indefatigable ardor, for which they earned our sincere felicitations.

But now, his rival being out of the field, he resumed his entreaties and increased his ardor.

Had the hero's peculiarities been vices, like those of Byron, the biographer might have cited them as warnings to abate the ardor of popular idolatry of genius.

Whereupon Joseph had nodded his understandinghe had seen impatient lovers before, although they usually restrained their ardor until after the fish; still, ma foi, this was a woman to make a man lose his head, and the night was to be a jolly onehow those young American devils were singing!...

He remembered his own delight three months before, even with the haunting thoughts of his mother's reproaches to dampen his ardor, and he was soon dazzling the neophyte with the wonders that were just about to begin.

An express to Petersburg further fixed the number of militia at three hundred, and of blacks at eight hundred, and invented a convenient shower of rain to explain the dampened ardor of the whites.

Love stories awoke in his youthful imagination an ardor for adventure and involved passions in which there was something of the intense love of indulgence that had been his father's besetting sin.

She studied the analysis of the atmosphere of cells, the properties and waste of wheaten flour, the cost of clothing to the general government, the whys and wherefores of crime and evil-doing; and it was not long before there was generated within her bosom a fine and healthy ardor to emulate this practical and courageous pattern.

By curtailing knowledge as much as possible, by extinguishing all ardor and enthusiasm, by trampling on all dignity, the soul's only refuge, by inculcating in us worn-out ideas, rancid beliefs, false principles incompatible with a life of progress!

Robert began to feel the ardor of the chase.

The cavalry of Musa was in every part of the field; wherever it came it gave fresh ardor to the fight.

Can I refuse then to comply with commands, which, he says, are necessary to his peace!Besides, was it not Charlotta that inspired this ardor in me for great actions!

His eyes lost their ardor; his nerveless hands dropped beside him.

I had, for the moment, quenched his ardor; he looked at me with anxious eyes, and drew a long sigh, almost a groan.

Each gondolier had suffered the bows of his boat to incline slightly towards the left shore of the canal, as the jockey is seen, at the starting-post, to turn his courser aside, in order to repress its ardor, or divert its attention.

Dante, partaking to the full in the eager spirit of the times, sharing all the ardor of the pursuit of knowledge, and with a spiritual insight which led him into regions of mystery where no others ventured, naturally connected the knowledge which opened the way for him with the poetic imagination which cast light upon it.

This dashed his ardor a bit and he gave permission for the Israelites to go; but he was only scared into doing it; and after the plague was called off he was not wise enough to keep his wordhere was a great lot of valuable slaves which he could keep, and why shouldn't he?his word was easy broken and all's fair in business; so his heart hardened and he held the Israelites.

But nothing could daunt the ardor of my zeal.

He thinks that their mode of life deadens even the physical ardor for the sex, but adds that the females appear to be "much more sensible of tender impressions."

The dissensions among the Greek leaders greatly embarrassed Byron, but did not destroy his ardor.

Before they reach the bottom they are an excellent target, and for the first time that most blood curdling of soundsthe half-singing, half-hissing z-z-z-ip of the minie-ballnumbs the ardor of the bravest.