Earnest
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338 examples of Earnest in a sentence
The shrieks of the females restored Lawton to his presence of mind, and the
earnest
entreaty of the divine induced him to attend to the safety of the family.
At her
earnest
request, the room was left to herself, the captain, and Frances.
His manner was
earnest
and interested, but in a slight degree constrained.
But Henry replied, with
earnest
grace,-"That I passed your pickets in disguise, is true; but - ""Peace!" interrupted the president.
To Henry there now remained but little hope; his confidence in his security was fast ebbing, but with an indefinite expectation of assistance from the loveliness of his sister, he fixed an
earnest
gaze on the pallid features of Frances.
Frances, in a hurried and
earnest
voice, complied with his request.
"Would you refuse the consolations of religion to a fellow creature about to suffer death?" said the matron, with
earnest
zeal.
"I submit," said the prisoner, yielding to his
earnest
manner, and goaded by the fears that were thus awakened anew.
She hastened at the summons, with
earnest
zeal, entertaining a secret hope that she was to be admitted to the gossip of a death-bed repentance.
While deliberating in distressing incertitude, now shrinking with the timidity of her sex and years from the enterprise, and now resolving to rescue her brother at every hazard, Frances turned her looks towards the east, in
earnest
gaze at the clouds which constantly threatened to involve her again in comparative darkness.
The old man listened to each word as it was uttered, with the most intense interest; but, towards the conclusion of the dialogue, the
earnest
attention of his countenance changed to a kind of inward smile.
Mr. Walters was very
earnest
of mien, and very sincere and honest at heart; and he held sacred things and places in such reverence, and so separated them from worldly matters, that unconsciously to himself his Sunday-school voice had acquired a peculiar intonation which was wholly absent on week-days.
And she put her small hand upon his and a little scuffle ensued, Tom pretending to resist in
earnest
but letting his hand slip by degrees till these words were revealed: "_I love you_."
"Say it again, Tom.""The money's in the cave!""Tom--honest injun, now--is it fun, or earnest?""Earnest, Huck--just as
earnest
as ever I was in my life.
"No!Oh, good-licks; are you in real dead-wood earnest, Tom?""Just as dead
earnest
as I'm sitting here.
I would weary you were I to tell you what passed between us; but oh, how
earnest
and fateful and all-important it was at the time!
You are none of them that want a fortune, whatever else you want.''I understand you, brother,' replies the lady very smartly; 'you suppose I have the money, and want the beauty; but as times go now, the first will do without the last, so I have the better of my neighbours.''Well,' says the younger brother, 'but your neighbours, as you call them, may be even with you, for beauty will steal a husband sometimes in spite of money, and when the maid chances to be handsomer than the mistress, she oftentimes makes as good a market, and rides in a coach before her.'I thought it was time for me to withdraw and leave them, and I did so, but not so far but that I heard all their discourse, in which I heard abundance of the fine things said of myself, which served to prompt my vanity, but, as I soon found, was not the way to increase my interest in the family, for the sister and the younger brother fell grievously out about it; and as he said some very disobliging things to her upon my account, so I could easily see that she resented them by her future conduct to me, which indeed was very unjust to me, for I had never had the least thought of what she suspected as to her younger brother; indeed, the elder brother, in his distant, remote way, had said a great many things as in jest, which I had the folly to believe were in earnest, or to flatter myself with the hopes of what I ought to have supposed he never intended, and perhaps never thought of.
He had stayed longer with me, but he happened to look out at the window and see his sisters coming up the garden, so he took his leave, kissed me again, told me he was very serious, and I should hear more of him very quickly, and away he went, leaving me infinitely pleased, though surprised; and had there not been one misfortune in it, I had been in the right, but the mistake lay here, that Mrs. Betty was in
earnest
and the gentleman was not.
It was his younger sister's chamber that I was in, and as there was nobody in the house but the maids below-stairs, he was, it may be, the ruder; in short, he began to be in
earnest
with me indeed.
'Alas!' says he aloud, 'there's all my mirth spoiled at once; sir W---- has sent his coach for me, and desires to speak with me upon some
earnest
business.'
Why, then,' says he, 'I'll take care of you and provide for you, and the child too; and that you may see I am not in jest,' says he, 'here's an
earnest
for you,' and with that he pulls out a silk purse, with an hundred guineas in it, and gave it me.
'But hark ye,' says his brother, 'are you in
earnest?
I was in straight enough before, and as I told you, I was in perplexity before, and acquainted you with the circumstances, that I might have your advice.''My dear,' says he, 'I have been considering very much upon it, you may be sure, and though it is a piece of advice that has a great many mortifications in it to me, and may at first seem strange to you, yet, all things considered, I see no better way for you than to let him go on; and if you find him hearty and in earnest, marry him.'
I told her I loved her hugely,' says he, 'but I could never make the jade believe I was in earnest.''I do not know how you should,' says his mother; 'nobody in their senses could believe you were in earnest, to talk so to a poor girl, whose circumstances you know so well.
'But prithee, son,' adds she, 'since you tell me that you could not make her believe you were in earnest, what must we believe about it?
For you ramble so in your discourse, that nobody knows whether you are in
earnest
or in jest; but as I find the girl, by your own confession, has answered truly, I wish you would do so too, and tell me seriously, so that I may depend upon it.
Is there anything in it or no?Are you in
earnest
or no?Are you distracted, indeed, or are you not?'Tis a weighty question, and I wish you would make us easy about it.'
'By my faith, madam,' says Robin, ''tis in vain to mince the matter or tell any more lies about it; I am in earnest, as much as a man is that's going to be hanged.
'If you are in
earnest
you are undone.'
I hope you are not in earnest.''Why, madam,' says he, 'the case is plain enough upon me, it explains itself; she won't have me, she says; is not that plain enough?
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