"Earnestly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his eyes with his hand, and gazed earnestly through the haze and spray. Suddenly he threw up his arms and ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... to be beautiful attract insects, and by their agency are fertilized and survive. Male birds are not intentionally arrayed in bright colors, but those which happen to be so arrayed are attractive, and thus become the progenitors of their race. Against this explanation the Duke earnestly protests. He refers to the gorgeous adorned class of Hummingbirds, of which naturalists enumerate no less than four hundred and thirty different species, distinguished one from the other, in general, only by their plumage. ...
— What is Darwinism? • Charles Hodge
... where I sit,' said Merton earnestly. 'Surely you can trust a friend of Mr. Logan's—who, by the bye, is ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... Becquerel; but their places were more than filled; the pace of the race was gaining, but the goal was not and never would be in sight. Since the time of Newton our knowledge of the phenomena of nature had wonderfully increased, but man asked perhaps more earnestly now than in his days, what was the ultimate reality behind the reality of the perceptions? Were they only the pebbles of the beach with which we had been playing? Did not the ocean of ultimate reality and truth ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various
... received my note and last poem. I hope still more earnestly that you won't think I am putting my spite against your chastening hand into a ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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