Word Finder - passionately

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In a passionate manner.

He was passionately fond of music, and his own hymns were written to the accompaniment.

He was passionately fond of hunting.

In the numerous churches the music was renowned, the archduke Leopold being passionately given to the art, maintaining at his.

He laboured " passionately " at Sartor Resartus, and made articles out of fragments originally intended for the history of German literature.

Then the queen-mother and the king's brother passionately attacked the minister, and for a moment it was believed that Richelieu was dismissed and that the queenmother and a Spanish policy had triumphed.

During part of this time, after coffee, he would aid his reflections by playing on the flute, of which he was passionately fond, being a really skilful performer.

Passionately enamoured of the princess of Conde, he set out reluctantly to Warsaw, but, on the death of his brother Charles IX.

He was passionately fond of the chase and was also a great builder, the restoration of the temple of Assur and Hadad at Assur (q.v.) being one of his works.

The chief attraction for Schiller was, however, Frau von Kalb with whom he had been passionately in love in Mannheim; but not very long afterwards he made the acquaintance at Rudolstadt of the family von Lengefeld, the younger daughter of which subsequently became his wife.

For a moment she returned his kiss passionately, her arms encircling his neck and drawing him closer.

His last speech of all, in 1819, contained a passage referring to the union he had so passionately resisted, which exhibits the statesmanship and at the same time the equable quality of Grattan's character.

Italy not only gave him a taste for art and letters, but furnished him with an arsenal of despotic maxims. Yet his true masters were the jurists of the southern universities, passionately addicted to centralization and autocracy, men like Duprat and Poyet, who revived the persistent tradition of Philip the Fairs legists.

These songs are rock solid, passionately performed and straightforward enough so that any aspiring guitar player can quickly learn how to play them.

When his warm lips met hers, she returned his kiss passionately.

He lifted her by the waist and crushed her body against his, bruising her lips passionately.

Capturing his neck in the noose of her arms, she kissed him passionately.

Without another word, he pulled her close, kissing her passionately.

In November 1580 Ivan in a fit of ungovernable fury at some contradiction or reproach, struck his eldest surviving son Ivan, a prince of rare promise, whom he passionately loved, a blow which proved fatal.

She refused all offers of marriage so that she might remain by the side of her brother, whom she loved passionately.

Thomas Moore, who warmly eulogizes Emmet, with whom he was a student at Trinity College, records that one day when he was playing on the piano the melody "Let Erin remember," Emmet started up exclaiming passionately, "Oh, that I were at the head of 20,000 men marching to that air!"

She remained to the last passionately devoted to the memory of her first husband; and she died in Paris in November 1831.

In 1783 he formed a connexion with Elizabeth Bridget Cane, commonly known as Mrs Armstead or Armistead, an amiable and well-mannered woman to whom he was passionately attached.

Moderate as were his views and disinterested as were his motives, his tactics were passionately and dangerously aggressive.

He thenceforth became passionately interested in Egyptology, devoted himself to the study of hieroglyphs and Coptic, and in 1847 published a Catalogue analytique of the Egyptian Gallery of the Boulogne Museum; in 1849, being appointed to a subordinate position in the Louvre, he left Boulogne for Paris.

The events of 1812 followed; in 1813 Bavaria was summoned to join the alliance against Napoleon, the demand being passionately backed by the crown prince Louis and by Marshal Wrede; on the 8th of October was signed the treaty of Ried, by which Bavaria threw in her lot with the Allies.

He was well versed in old Arabic tradition and in the doctrine of Islam, and was passionately fond of poetry.

The maharaja was passionately fond of sport, and his shooting parties were celebrated, while he himself became a persona grata in English society.

He was passionately attached to his wife and children; and, while his friend Beccadelli signed the licentious verses of Hermaphroditus, his own Muse celebrated in liberal but loyal strains the pleasures of conjugal affection, the charm of infancy and the sorrows of a husband and a father in the loss of those he loved.

His, friends at Franeker were passionately opposed to the transference, but ultimately acquiesced.

At least it made their traditional religion possible for those many French Catholics who clung passionately to the benefits the Revolution had brought them; and had it prevailed, it might have spared France and the world that fatal gulf between Liberalism and Catholicism which Pius IX.'s Syllabus of 1864 sought to make impassable.

They are chiefly hunters, passionately loving their taiga, or wild forests, and have maintained their Shaman religion and tribal organization into suoks.

Loving him, believing in his powers, passionately desiring for him a successful career, but clinging with both hands to the old forms of faith from which he floated away, this solitary, intense woman did as much as any one to form, by action and reaction, the mind and character of the young Emerson.

The dissension between a man who felt so passionately as Burke, and a man who spoke so impulsively as Charles Fox, lay in the very nature of things.

By birth and marriage he was a Southerner, and the citizens of Norfolk counted on his throwing in his lot with them; but professional pride, and affection for the flag under which he had served for more than fifty years, held him true to his allegiance; he passionately rejected the proposals of his fellow-townsmen, and as it was more than hinted to him that his longer stay in Norfolk might be dangerous, he hastily quitted that place, and offered his services to the government at Washington.

Carmen gasped as Dulce kissed him passionately on the lips.

She returned his kiss passionately and when he released her wrists, she squirmed away, breaking into a peal of laughter.

Cereta, with her passionately literary mind, wrote with a densely allusive style marked by her knowledge of the classics.

The curtain opens, and we see a cellist passionately lost in his world of music.

Galloway is passionately committed to his constituents and causes.

It was easy to see that she was passionately devoted both to her husband and to her little son.

I had fed him with part of one, of which he seemed passionately fond.

Our judges consider how well entrants have used plain English, and how successfully and passionately they have fought gobbledygook.

Culture passionately so the meats are for instance Lester nine holes.

With passionately held views on both sides, predicting the outcome of the vote is tricky.

Each group becomes passionately addicted to its own dominant penchant or special taste.

And how Dahl, who believed passionately in spreading secular sedition, would have enjoyed it.

He was passionately fond of hunting, and considered tobacco sinful.

After passionately watching tennis as a teen, he told us how he was overjoyed to learn tennis from retired tennis star Pat Cash.

Luther gave little attention to New Testament polity, though he believed in and clung passionately to the universal priesthood of all true Christians, and rejected the idea of a sacerdotal caste.

The future Mme de Stael was from her earliest years a romp, a coquette, and passionately desirous of prominence and attention.