fervor
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In everything he says and writes I find this desire to exalt Truth above the fervours of emotionalism and the dangerous drill of the formalist.
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold
And the supreme appeal is to youth—plastic and impressionable, aflame with fervours of the blood that can be conjured, by heady words, into fervours infinitely more dangerous to themselves and their country.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud
Before, she had had all the icy reserve, he all the fervours.
From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John
Erewhile, when WHITE, by this fell fiend oppress'd, Felt Hope's fine fervours languish in his breast, When shrunk with scorn, and trembling to aspire, He dropp'd desponding his insulted lyre.
From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas
O wizard with a wand More fraught with fervours of the life beyond Than books have taught us in these tawdry days, Take thou my praise.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric
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