Citations:ardent

English citations of ardent

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1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
All I can do is to describe the fact, which was even surprising to me when I found it, though I knew not from whence it proceeded; it was doubtless the effect of ardent wishes, and of strong ideas formed in my mind, realising the comfort which the conversation of one of my fellow-Christians would have been to me.

Upon the whole, as I found by all his discourse a settled affection to me, and that nothing could part him from me, so I found all the foundation of his desire to go to his own country was laid in his ardent affection to the people, and his hopes of my doing them good; a thing which, as I had no notion of myself, so I had not the least thought or intention, or desire of undertaking it.

2021, Faustine Vincent, En Ukraine, la bataille des langues, lemonde.fr (16 February 2021);
Danylo Haïdamakha, 20 ans, est devenu une star de TikTok avec ses vidéos humoristiques sur la langue ukrainienne, dont il est un ardent défenseur.

1724, Antoine François Prévost, Les Aventures de Pomponius, chevalier romain, Rome: Ferrante Pallavicini, published 1724, page 5:
Si Octavien ne s’aperçût pas du feu, qui conſumoit ces deux jeunes perſonnes, ces flames, pour être ſecretes, n’en étoient pas moins ardentes.
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