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  • But most of all, I was drawn to her effervescent personality.†   (source)
  • Viscosity flattens the effervescence of panic.†   (source)
  • Well, you're not exactly effervescent now, are you?†   (source)
  • Also in the mess tent was an effervescent young woman who introduced herself as Deshun Deysel and immediately invited Andy and me in for tea.†   (source)
  • "Oh, hi, Mr. Taylor," she says, all effervescence.†   (source)
  • Major Danby's effervescent optimism vanished instantly, and he broke out all at once into a bubbling sweat.†   (source)
  • His eloquence and vehemence wrought the little man up to a degree of heat and effervescence....He repeated over and over again ....[his] unbounded confidence in the British empire ....with such agitation and violent action that I really pitied him, instead of being displeased.†   (source)
  • At meetings of The Compassionate Friends, Joe had never seen any bereaved parent capable of this effervescence.†   (source)
  • Seventy-nine degrees Fahrenheit, in golden effervescent air.†   (source)
  • I prefer water with small bubbles so that the effervescence isn't overpowering.
  • We're looking for someone who is more solid, more steady-going, and less effervescent.   (source)
  • She exhibited none of that effervescent joy at his appearance which we like to see in our mothers-in-law elect.   (source)
  • And as I relaxed fully, feeling the beer begin to softly effervesce throughout my limbs, I conceded to myself that what he was saying had merit.†   (source)
  • May's effervescent attitude kept us all in good spirits, and I found myself singing while we dressed.†   (source)
  • With effervescent agility the chaplain ran through the whole gamut of orthodox immoralities, while Nately sat up in bed with flushed elation, astounded by the mad gang of companions of which he found himself the nucleus.†   (source)
  • I can assure you, my outraged young friend' — the old man's knowing, disdainful eyes shone even more effervescently as Nately's stuttering dismay increased — 'that you and your country will have a no more loyal partisan in Italy than me — but only as long as you remain in Italy.'†   (source)
  • The train lurched forward, began to churn with smooth and oily precision as it gained momentum, and my vision evaporated in an effervescent blur against the grimy, receding walls of Rahway.†   (source)
  • Yet despite the mildly unsettling nature of this concern of his, I never felt during these effervescent evenings the slightest hint of the depression and cloudy despair in him which Sophie had alluded to, the violent seizures whose fury she had experienced firsthand.†   (source)
  • The capsule in which reposed the sodium cyanide (tiny granulated crystals as characterless as Bromo-Seltzer, said Nathan, and similarly water soluble, melting almost immediately, though not effervescent) was really quite small, a bit smaller than any medicinal capsule she had ever seen, and was also metallically reflective, so that as he held it inches above her face where she lay against the pillow—wiggling it between thumb and forefinger and causing the pinkish oblong to do a little midair pirouette—she could see shimmering along its surfac†   (source)
  • I suppose your love will effervesce in six months, or less.†   (source)
  • The delirium which it created had effervesced away.†   (source)
  • Always she was disappointed, but always she effervesced anew—over the Student Volunteers, who intended to become missionaries, over painting scenery for the dramatic club, over soliciting advertisements for the college magazine.†   (source)
  • The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour.†   (source)
  • There, in fact, stood the four glasses, brimful of this wonderful water, the delicate spray of which, as it effervesced from the surface, resembled the tremulous glitter of diamonds.†   (source)
  • They found in each other the constant effervescence, the boundless extraversion, the richness, the loudness, the desperate need to give and to serve that was life to them.†   (source)
  • There was something rather Elizabethan about him—his casual versatility, his good looks, that effervescent combination of mental with physical activities.†   (source)
  • To be sure, I had come with the best intentions, but this was no place for me to be merry in; and all this loud effervescence of pleasure, the laughter and the whole foolery of it on every side, seemed to me forced and stupid.†   (source)
  • features, outcrops of selfishness indecently exposed—restlessness or inability to settle down and stop bothering the middle-aged—pert argument on abstract subjects like Beauty, as if they were of any interest to the middle-aged— lack of experience as to when truth should be suppressed in deference to the middle-aged—general effervescence and nuisance and unfittingness to the set patterns of the seventh sense—these must have been some of Guenever's characteristics at twenty-two, because they are everybody's.†   (source)
  • This effervescence made her flit with a bird-like movement, rather than walk by her mother's side.†   (source)
  • The affair was described to the messenger with all the effervescence of enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • The drops of logic Tess had let fall into the sea of his enthusiasm served to chill its effervescence to stagnation.†   (source)
  • It is the bribe for living, the champagne of the blood, the effervescence of the ferment—that makes some men think holy thoughts, and other men to see God or to create him when they cannot see him.†   (source)
  • At the time when the inadequacy of the first constitution was discovered America possessed the double advantage of that calm which had succeeded the effervescence of the revolution, and of those great men who had led the revolution to a successful issue.†   (source)
  • Mr. Smallweed has been twice dispatched for effervescent drinks, and has twice mixed them in the two official tumblers and stirred them up with the ruler.†   (source)
  • And suddenly he recalled how they used to go to bed together as children, and how they only waited till Fyodor Bogdanitch was out of the room to fling pillows at each other and laugh, laugh irrepressibly, so that even their awe of Fyodor Bogdanitch could not check the effervescing, overbrimming sense of life and happiness.†   (source)
  • The strange visages which came, in turn, to gnash their teeth in the rose window, were like so many brands cast into the brazier; and from the whole of this effervescing crowd, there escaped, as from a furnace, a sharp, piercing, stinging noise, hissing like the wings of a gnat.†   (source)
  • The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people.†   (source)
  • Being naturally of a serious turn, my attention was directed to the solid advantages derivable from a residence here, rather than to the effervescent pleasures which are the grand object with too many visitants.†   (source)
  • It was apparently impregnated with an effervescent gas, for little bubbles were continually ascending from the depths of the glasses, and bursting in silvery spray at the surface.†   (source)
  • Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion.†   (source)
  • In such youthful, fresh feeling there is a special charm ...' 'The word fascination is most usual in such cases,' Bazarov interrupted; the effervescence of his spleen could be heard in his choked though steady voice.†   (source)
  • Franz and Emil are jolly little lads, quite after my own heart, for the mixture of German and American spirit in them produces a constant state of effervescence.†   (source)
  • Democratic governments may become violent and even cruel at certain periods of extreme effervescence or of great danger: but these crises will be rare and brief.†   (source)
  • The wild effervescence of his mood—which had so readily supplied thoughts, fantasies, and a strange aptitude of words, and impelled him to talk from the mere necessity of giving vent to this bubbling-up gush of ideas had entirely subsided.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bird, looking the very picture of delight, was superintending the arrangements of the table, ever and anon mingling admonitory remarks to a number of frolicsome juveniles, who were effervescing in all those modes of untold gambol and mischief that have astonished mothers ever since the flood.†   (source)
  • Little Pearl at first clapped her hands, but then lost for an instant the restless agitation that had kept her in a continual effervescence throughout the morning; she gazed silently, and seemed to be borne upward like a floating sea-bird on the long heaves and swells of sound.†   (source)
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