“The duke, inflamed by his example, spoke with ardor of the moment of his deliverance.”

“This man burns with a great ardor for reform.”

“All at once, the guests, both men and women, were seized with a burning sensation of lustful ardor.”

“These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.”

“My ardour totally dampened as I remembered the warnings of that day's front page.”

“Naturally, her coolness served only to intensify his ardour, but it was two years before she capitulated.”

“You crown our distant ardours while we fight, And mourn our laurelled memories when we're killed.”

“Arousing a flicker of interest among blasé Californians is probably a harder job than cooling the ardours of ex-communist Europe.”

“If the Church frowned upon chocolate for some time it is largely due to its reputation for exciting the ardours of Venus.”

“Triumph is firmly certain now that conviction has been ascertained within the souls, minds, and ardors.”

“His grays and grayed greens and blues recall the ungraspable nuances of Velázquez and, at times, the simmering ardors of Caspar David Friedrich.”

“Domesticity, its ardors and rigors, unspoken binds and compacts, was one of Merrill's major subjects.”