This left a very busy and earnest man without regular assignment.

He knew the earnest young man only wanted to help, butDouglas didn't want to be helped.

There was a minister in your family, an extremely earnest and intelligent man, I have always heard.

He was considered by his peers to be an earnest man of only average ability.

The lieutenant, an earnest young man, realized he was out of his element.

She'd known and worked with the earnest young man in the past.

He was an earnest young man, with a serious face and slightly receding hair.

I look at this earnest young man and ask evenly, "Why would you want to do that?"

Thisbe was an earnest young man, much given to thought about the way things should be.

He is a very earnest young man, but he doesn't have enough experience for this kind of work.