But she saw a terrible earnestness in her father's eyes and that while he awaited her answer quick fever spots glowed in his cheeks.

On the contrary, they display an earnestness as well as a good sense and an energy which are gracefully set off by the affection for her mother, and the pride in her brother's firmness and address which they also express.

No one can doubt the earnestness and truth of the poet's mingled anger and sorrow.

It is true he has defects; but who has not?unless it be a deacon;still there is something in his style which indicates earnestness, something in his language, demonstrative of culture and eloquence.

"We pretend to no knowledge on the subject of the dates of discoveries in the arts and sciences, but well do we remember the earnestness, and single-minded devotion to a laudable purpose, with which our worthy friend first communicated to us his ideas on the subject of using the electric spark by way of a telegraph.

His face expressed so much earnestness and enthusiasm that their Majesties could not help but be impressed.

and there was no mistaking his genuine earnestness.

He seldom introduces the Subject he speaks upon; but we are so far gone in Years, that he observes when he is among us, an Earnestness to have him fall on some divine Topick, which he always treats with much Authority, as one who has no Interests in this World, as one who is hastening to the Object of all his Wishes, and conceives Hope from his Decays and Infirmities.

Among other precepts of good life (directing the practice of virtue and abstinence from sin) St. James doth insert this about swearing, couched in expression denoting his great earnestness, and apt to excite our special attention.

Who could resist such fiery earnestness, such a convulsed frame, such quivering tones, such burning eyes, such dreadful threatenings, such awful appeals?

In turning the intense earnestness and religious enthusiasm of this great-souled woman into this channel, I soon felt the power of my convert in goading me forever forward to more untiring work.

We need earnest thoughtful Christly men, who will be more anxious to create and develop moral earnestness than to excite transient emotions.

But while on the one side there was burning and devouring earnestness, and that power of conviction which doubles the strength of the strong, there was on the other a serene ignoring of all that was going on, worthy of a set of dignified French abbés on the eve of the Revolution.

Each one evinced his earnestness by taking hold of my baggage while asking for it.

Afterward, at the request of the landlord, and evidently to their great gratification, these men regaled us with songs, all sung with exceeding great earnestness, little regard to tune, and great carelessness as to pitch; but, if one may judge from their smiling and streaming countenances, the music had proved perfectly satisfactory to the singers themselves.

And an earnest Priest, earnestly pressing these parts by his vocal example on the notice of the People, can scarcely fail to excite a corresponding earnestness in them.

Her journal, while it exhibits an intense earnestness in analyzing the state of her own mind, and perhaps rather too much proneness to dwell morbidly upon it, also evinces the tender joy and peace with which she was often blessed by the manifested presence of her Lord.

Mere rhetorical vehemence cannot explain the earnestness with which in a day of diplomatic cynicism he preached the doctrine of an international morality as strict and as binding as the morality which exists between man and man.

He left quickly, put off by slick advertisements on the walls and expensively dressed men exuding earnestness.

She was devoted to her children, and felt a deep earnestness regarding her responsibility as a mother.

Repressed feeling imparted great earnestness to the message he left for his father's friend.

I then said that I hoped he would forgive my earnestness; when he replied eagerly, "that from me nothing would be necessary by way of apology;" adding with great fervour, in words which I shall (I hope) never forget"God bless you, my dear Windham, through Jesus Christ;" and concluding with a wish that we might meet in some humble portion of that happiness which God might finally vouchsafe to repentant sinners.

" The speaker had turned and thrown up his arm with frowning earnestness; he dropped it and smiled at himself.

"Anythin' queer about your dad's handsome mug?" His jocular tone did not hide his deep earnestness.

The City had adopted his cause with continually increasing earnestness and effect.