Literary notes about fervid (AI summary)
In literature, "fervid" is frequently employed to evoke an atmosphere charged with passion and intense emotion. Writers use it to describe not only the heated rhetoric of preachers and revolutionaries—as seen in accounts of impassioned sermons [1] and stirring political oratory [2], [3]—but also the inner world of characters whose love and zeal border on the divine [4], [5]. The word also enlivens descriptions of nature and human experience, capturing everything from the scorching rays of a midday sun [6], [7] to moments of deep, almost overwhelming personal feeling [8], [9]. Its versatility makes "fervid" a powerful tool in conveying both the grandeur and the vulnerability of the human spirit.
- Perhaps the sermon was not new, but it was fervid, and at times the able preacher roared so that articulate sounds were lost in the general effect.
— from The Works of Charles Dudley WarnerProject Gutenberg Editions by Charles Dudley Warner - France, as we say, has once more done what it could: fervid men have come together from wide separation; for strange issues.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - so many Patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready-writer, now in the hour of eruption, going like an Iceland Geyser!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - It is your poetical temperament, my dear—your ethereal soul—your fervid imagination, which throws you into a glow of genius and excitement.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - Stephania's arms encircled Otto's neck and she pressed her lips on his in a long, fervid kiss, which thrilled the youth to the marrow of his bone.
— from The Sorceress of Rome by Nathan Gallizier - Before they passed the curve of the shore, the sun was well up in the sky and beat down with fervid rays upon the sweating, toiling fishermen.
— from Culm RockThe Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord - Beyond, the sky burns fervid rose like red wine held against the sun.
— from A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos - In the exhaustion of fervid pity, Therese sank heavily against her pillow.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - "I was moved by this display of fervid sympathy on the part of a stranger for my humble friends in their sorry plight.
— from Tales of Destiny by Edmund Mitchell
