perfervid
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Playing his part, Owen carried poetry into battle: the strange, futuristic work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the perfervid verse of Swinburne, each with their own mortal relationships to the sea.
From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2018
But free silver, as articulated in the perfervid “Cross of Gold” speech, had been the making of Bryan as a national politician, and he couldn’t bear to let it go.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2017
Beman dispatched his then-deputy commissioner to fly to our offices in Connecticut and pound on the table with his shoe, which I recall Finchem doing with perfervid outrage.
From Golf Digest • Nov. 8, 2016
It is a realm that quaintly evokes D. H. Lawrence’s perfervid notions of civilized souls divided within themselves and out of touch with what he called “blood consciousness.”
From New York Times • May 20, 2016
He was lacking in the good qualities of Andries Botma, who, however fiery and perfervid as a patriotic orator, was a kindly and courteous gentleman beneath.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram
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