earnestness

After military service, he began his medical studies with great earnestness.

I am sure of that,' she said with great earnestness.

But there is also earnestness involved in the thought of death.

He asked me, with earnestness, if I would let him go home.

She is trying with much earnestness and some success to make it more.

In the earnestness of his talk he had stopped, but now turned and went on.

His earnestness took the men at the table by surprise.

Now is the time for me to speak the truth in all earnestness.

Finally he does, looking at me with such earnestness that I feel sorry for him.

It was a job he carried out with great earnestness.

For all its earnestness, the show is not without humor.

She tried not to read too much into the earnestness of his kiss.

The two horses came up close to me, looking with great earnestness upon my face and hands.

In the earnestness of her love she even dictated the words.

As for little Pearl, the earnestness soon passed out of her face.

He was so white with passionate earnestness that she could not but believe him.

I have long wanted to talk to you, in all earnestness."

This is a time when earnestness and pure love are necessary.

She turned her head and gave him a look from those eyes that were his own, touching in their earnestness.

There was a terrible earnestness in her face and voice, as she spoke.

While saying this he looked at his friend with an earnestness that embarrassed him.

Then he said with a curious sudden change to earnestness.

Both boys were looking at him now, a strange earnestness in their young faces.

"Some have called me so," she said with a suddenly deadly earnestness.

The lines in this paragraph are evidence enough of his earnestness.