vehemency
Example Sentences
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After this, he inveighed for some time against bailiffs, and then crying with vehemency to God to receive his spirit, he gave up the ghost on the 4th of January, 1724-5.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
If they shall chance, In charging you with matters, to commit you, The best persuasions to the contrary Fail not to use, and with what vehemency The occasion shall instruct you.
From King Henry VIII by Shakespeare, William
We should have a certain persuasion of the unquestionable goodness of that which we are ardent and vehement to obtain, else the more ardour and vehemency, the more wickedness is in it.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Read with vehemency," he says, "those words 'me,' and 'for me.'
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
Then they called him with exceeding great vehemency, all of them, one and another.
From Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Rowlandson, Mary White
