1. | As to my own will or conscience, impassioned grief had trampled one and stifled the other. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
2. | "I was going to say, impassioned but perhaps you would have misunderstood the word, and been displeased. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
3. | I am aware that my voice is singularly deficient in producing either the dulcet tones of my fair client or the impassioned vehemence of the defendant's repose. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
4. | He looked at her and was struck by the serious impassioned expression of her face. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
5. | Marilla's impassioned grief, breaking all the bounds of natural reserve and lifelong habit in its stormy rush, she could comprehend better than Anne's tearless agony. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
6. | She threw her arms round my neck, gave me a most impassioned kiss, and then sobbed and cried as if her heart would break. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
7. | It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid irritation. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
8. | Maximilian uttered a cry of delight, and, springing forwards, seized the hand extended towards him, and imprinted on it a fervent and impassioned kiss. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |