Earnestness

Examples

• Yes, yes, he is,' said Mr. Pickwick and Sam, with great earnestness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was very earnest, and earnestness was always rather ridiculous, commonplace, to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Deep, downright, faithful earnestness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• So far from it, answered the mask, with mysterious earnestness, that, after what has passed, were you to discover me I would blow my brains out. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I felt the earnestness with which he spoke--felt it as a friendly rebuke to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His face was incandescent in its abstract earnestness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Earnestness in you, is anything but alarming to me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Earnestness is what that Somebody must look for, to sustain him and improve him, Trot. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I was simply for Clym, replied Mrs. Yeobright, with too much emphasis in her earnestness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The timid little beauty promises in all earnestness to be trustworthy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is invariably the case, said Luttrell with his usual earnestness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He denied it, however, with the utmost earnestness, and I am convinced that he was speaking the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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