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English citations of ardent

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  • 1719Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
    All I can do is to describe the fact, which was even surprising to me when I found it, though I knew not from whence it proceeded; it was doubtless the effect of ardent wishes, and of strong ideas formed in my mind, realising the comfort which the conversation of one of my fellow-Christians would have been to me.
    Upon the whole, as I found by all his discourse a settled affection to me, and that nothing could part him from me, so I found all the foundation of his desire to go to his own country was laid in his ardent affection to the people, and his hopes of my doing them good; a thing which, as I had no notion of myself, so I had not the least thought or intention, or desire of undertaking it.

French citations of ardent

  • 2021, Faustine Vincent, En Ukraine, la bataille des langues, lemonde.fr (16 February 2021);
    Danylo Haïdamakha, 20 ans, est devenu une star de TikTok avec ses vidéos humoristiques sur la langue ukrainienne, dont il est un ardent défenseur.
  • 1724, Antoine François Prévost, Les Aventures de Pomponius, chevalier romain, Rome: Ferrante Pallavicini, published 1724, page 5:
    Si Octavien ne s’aperçût pas du feu, qui conſumoit ces deux jeunes perſonnes, ces flames, pour être ſecretes, n’en étoient pas moins ardentes.
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