All 21 Uses of
earnest
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- If one of the family did but gurgle in his throat, a bystander would be likely enough to whisper, between jest and earnest, "He has Maule's blood to drink!"†
Chpt 1earnest = sincere or serious
- Hepzibah fancied that there was something peculiar in her venerable friend's look and tone; insomuch, that she gazed into his face with considerable earnestness, endeavoring to discover what secret meaning, if any, might be lurking there.†
Chpt 4earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- —or else her earnest scowl disturbed his recollection, as it might a more courageous man's.†
Chpt 4earnest = sincere or serious
- Hepzibah bade her young guest sit down, and, herself taking a chair near by, looked as earnestly at Phoebe's trim little figure as if she expected to see right into its springs and motive secrets.†
Chpt 5earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- "Is there nothing wild in the eye?" continued Holgrave, so earnestly that it embarrassed Phoebe, as did also the quiet freedom with which he presumed on their so recent acquaintance.†
Chpt 6
- He retired towards his own solitary gable, but turned his head, on reaching the door, and called to Phoebe, with a tone which certainly had laughter in it, yet which seemed to be more than half in earnest.†
Chpt 6in earnest = serious; or in a serious manner
- Do not refuse my good offices,—my earnest propositions for your welfare!†
Chpt 8earnest = sincere or serious
- Is not the world sad enough, in genuine earnest, without making a pastime of mock sorrows?†
Chpt 10
- The pale, gray, childish, aged, melancholy, yet often simply cheerful, and sometimes delicately intelligent aspect of Clifford, peering from behind the faded crimson of the curtain,—watching the monotony of every-day occurrences with a kind of inconsequential interest and earnestness, and, at every petty throb of his sensibility, turning for sympathy to the eyes of the bright young girl!†
Chpt 11earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- —and over the whole city the bells scattered the blessed sounds, now slowly, now with livelier joy, now one bell alone, now all the bells together, crying earnestly,—"It is the Sabbath!"†
Chpt 11earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- "Dear brother," said she earnestly, "let us go!†
Chpt 11
- But, had you peeped at them through the chinks of the garden-fence, the young man's earnestness and heightened color might have led you to suppose that he was making love to the young girl!†
Chpt 12earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- "Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?" cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding conversation.†
Chpt 12earnest = sincere or serious
- How strangely in earnest you are!
Chpt 12 *in earnest = serious
- Mr. Pyncheon took her hand, and pressed it with the earnestness of startled emotion.†
Chpt 13earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- "And you have never felt it before?" inquired the artist, looking earnestly at the girl through the twilight.†
Chpt 14earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- "Cousin Hepzibah," said the Judge, with an impressive earnestness of manner, which grew even to tearful pathos as he proceeded, "is it possible that you do not perceive how unjust, how unkind, how unchristian, is this constant, this long-continued bitterness against me, for a part which I was constrained by duty and conscience, by the force of law, and at my own peril, to act?†
Chpt 15earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- "I should think not," said the old gentleman, eyeing Clifford earnestly, and rather apprehensively.†
Chpt 17earnestly = sincerely or seriously
- The butcher was so much in earnest with his sweetbread of lamb, or whatever the dainty might be, that he tried every accessible door of the Seven Gables, and at length came round again to the shop, where he ordinarily found admittance.†
Chpt 19in earnest = serious; or in a serious manner
- "How can you love a simple girl like me?" asked Phoebe, compelled by his earnestness to speak.†
Chpt 20earnestness = sincerity or seriousness
- "I would not have it so!" said Phoebe earnestly.†
Chpt 20earnestly = sincerely or seriously
Definition:
characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined