Fervour

Revolutionary fervour is born from an intense emotional response, sublimated and rationalised. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As you rush towards the action figure aisle, your heart speeding in fervour as you make your means to this supernatural toy of imaginativeness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His fervour is realistic, his striking - power is tempered only by broad-mindedness and humour. ❋ Unknown (1953)

The fervour is short-lived, the flame is expelled by its own blast, and leaves a house swept and garnished, inviting devils. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Her fervour is the artist's fervour, the longing, coming really to passion, to hold and fix forever the shapes that were loveliest to her. ❋ Marsden Hartley (N/A)

Again she was recalling the fervour with which he had declared himself on this point on that last day when he actually made her believe in him. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

But they will be new bottles, when after the ascension of the Lord, they are renewed by desiring His consolation, and then new wine will come to the new bottles, that is, the fervour of the Holy Ghost will fill the hearts of spiritual men. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

His height, his air, his countenance, were such as always command the attention of crowds; and at this time they received every adjunct from the interest of the occasion, and that peculiar look of intent yet suppressed fervour, which is, perhaps, the sole gift of the eloquent that Nature alone can give. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Only a brief woebegone show of energy from a denim-clad fan to the front creates a slight tickle of fervour, which is a damn shame considering what the bruising the band dole out live. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Margo also informed us of "fervour" on the other side of the Atlantic being whipped up by "talk-show hosts." ❋ Unknown (2009)

But his doctrines were too shallow and unsatisfactory ever to take root, and it could be easily seen that when Marchurst died ‘The Elect’ would die also, — that is, as a sect, for it was not pervaded by that intense religious fervour which is the life and soul of a new doctrine. ❋ Unknown (2003)

'Don't be silly, of course there is,' said Hermione, and Harry saw, with an ominous feeling, that her face was suddenly alight with the kind of fervour that SPEW usually inspired in her. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2003)

He missed the pulpit by a narrow margin, yet he has never lost the evangelistic fervour which is one of the secrets of his control and command of people. ❋ Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1918)

Now the significance of our English word "fervour" scarcely unveils to us the contents of the apostle's mind. ❋ 1817-1893 (1910)

But his doctrines were too shallow and unsatisfactory ever to take root, and it could be easily seen that when Marchurst died 'The Elect' would die also, -- that is, as a sect, for it was not pervaded by that intense religious fervour which is the life and soul of a new doctrine. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)

But it is not that kind of fervour that the Apostle is enjoining here. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

So Sunday's US premiere of Treme, a new series about post-Katrina New Orleans by The Wire's creator David Simon, had been anticipated by his fans with the kind of fervour normally reserved by Christians for the rapture. ❋ Leo Benedictus (2010)

Only war, you feel, can match sport in inspiring this kind of fervour on a daily basis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He warned people not to underestimate the "fervour" that the visit would bring. ❋ Unknown (2010)