perfervid
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Playing his part, Owen carried poetry into battle: the strange, futuristic work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the perfervid verse of Swinburne, each with their own mortal relationships to the sea.
From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2018
It takes its title from the perfervid 1912 lyric that thrust its winsome author to the center of the literary scene.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018
But free silver, as articulated in the perfervid “Cross of Gold” speech, had been the making of Bryan as a national politician, and he couldn’t bear to let it go.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2017
Beman dispatched his then-deputy commissioner to fly to our offices in Connecticut and pound on the table with his shoe, which I recall Finchem doing with perfervid outrage.
From Golf Digest • Nov. 8, 2016
In the reign of Antoninus Pius the Acta register those perfervid acclamations which meet us in the later Augustan histories:2796—“O nos felices qui te Imperatorem videmus; Di te servent in perpetuo; juvenis triumphis, senex Imperator!”
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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