perfervid

Example Sentences

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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 came, a Scotsman, to a colony one-third Scottish, and the name of Bruce was itself soporific to the opposition of a perfervid section of the reformers.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)