perfervid

Example Sentences

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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

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

The usage also survives among a considerably smaller number of only slightly less perfervid liberals.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2015

Not long since, on a pleasure voyage round the extreme north of Scotland, a perfervid Scot was heard to proclaim the glorious deeds done for the Empire by Scotland's sons.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)