"Earnestness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... damn what it means," rejoined Keith with deadly earnestness, "and if you don't get out of here I'll ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... a stern earnestness, and he added: "I tell you he will never show himself here! I know what ...
— The Jungle Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis
... matter for discussion. In the chapter on Vedic gods such particulars as can be ascertained will be given. Roughly speaking, the religion is mainly, though not wholly, a cult of departmental gods, originally, in certain cases, forces of Nature, but endowed with moral earnestness. As to fetishism in the Vedas the opinions of the learned are divided. M. Bergaigne(1) looks on the whole ritual as, practically, an organised fetishism, employed to influence gods of a far higher and purer character. Mr. Max Muller remarks, "that stones, bones, shells, ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang
... speaking aloud in her earnestness, "I believe that that is what Miss Panney meant. She has spoken so well of him to me; she has heard about that girl, and she said, yes, she certainly did say, 'It shall be done.' She wants it, I truly believe; she wants me ...
— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton
... far West, where the 121st Psalm which I just quoted, was a favourite, and more than a favourite. Whenever it was given out in church—and the congregation used often to ask for it—all joined in singing it, young and old, men and maidens, with an earnestness, a fervour, a passion, such as I never heard elsewhere; such as shewed how intensely they felt that the psalm was true, and true for them. Of all congregational singing I ever heard, never have I heard any so touching as those voices, when they joined in the old words ...
— Westminster Sermons - with a Preface • Charles Kingsley
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