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

It takes its title from the perfervid 1912 lyric that thrust its winsome author to the center of the literary scene.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 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 was a perfervid and wild harangue doubtless, and some of my fellow-officers who heard it never ceased to twit me about my one burst of eloquence.

From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Caldwell, Willie Walker