fervency

While under his direction, the community increased in numbers and fervency.

She spoke with the fervency of someone who means to bend reality to her will.

She hoped with piercing fervency that he might yet change his mind.

His words were frightening enough, but the fervency with which he said them was terrifying.

Instead, he responded with a fervency of desire that surprised her.

"Thank God," he said, with a fervency that made her laugh.

She turned there, and pressed his hand with sudden, unexpected fervency.

She kissed him back with a fervency that arose from her soul.

A few priests died in dark alleys as a result of popular fervency.

There was a rising fervency in his voice that held his friend's full attention.

"I'll find a way to visit you, Charlie," she said with sudden fervency.

The fervency with which you have expressed yourself is uncommonly strong."

There was such a political fervency at that time, with serious, serious upheaval.

Hearing the fervency of these witness-evangelists made him fall prostrate.

No doubt about the fervency of that prayer, she would fight and die for her nurseling.

And he prayed with a fervency he hadn't felt since a boy.

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it.

She returned the gesture with equal fervency and pressed her bosom to his chest.

"I was unaware of the fervency of your desires in this matter," he said carefully.

He committed himself with a fervency that barely suggested a fraction of the fear and hope seething inside.

The unguarded fervency of his expression made her lightheaded.

Praying for humility, with whatever fervency of expression, does not always mean a desire for it.

"Not me," the man said with gloomy fervency.

Hal Farrell was not sure, but he hoped so with all the fervency of which a six-year-old boy is capable.

But after its hiatus, the band still has its old fire, playing 13-year-old songs with the same fervency as the new ones.