"In earnest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she insisted; for, when very much in earnest, Miss Liz impartially denoted the Colonel as father to ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... hesitated for a time, but his position on the roof was precarious, and he saw that Bob was in earnest and meant to wait for him. He summoned up what little courage he could, therefore, and came slowly down a ladder that he had reared against the side of the barn furthest ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... was in earnest, and therefore did as I requested, and in another minute I was again ...
— The Privateer's-Man - One hundred Years Ago • Frederick Marryat
... Lance. "I confess I was dense enough not to understand that you were joking, so I spoke in earnest. But I think we clearly understand each other now; so I hope we shall hear no more about threats, revenge, and ...
— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood
... on a neighboring case and regarded the dapper little figure curiously. Such words, coming from those girlishly rosy lips, with the dimples dodging in and out of his pink cheeks, had an odd effect of unreality. But Pink plainly was in earnest. His eyes behind the dancing light of harmless deviltry, were pleading ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower
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