Zeal

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Zeal

crippled fiddler with intense feelings. [Br. Lit.: Pendennis]

zealous about restoring Saxon independence. [Br. Lit.: Ivanhoe]

zealous for universal knowledge; sells soul to Lucifer. [Medieval Legend and Ger. Lit.: Faust; Br. Lit.: Doctor Faustus]

flaming heart

attribute of St. Augustine; symbol of religious fervor. [Art: Hall, 123]

Merridew, Jack

boy with lust for authority and killing. [Brit. Lit.: Lord of the Flies]

Olsen, Jimmy

eager-beaver cub reporter and Superman’s friend. [Comics: “Superman” in Horn, 341]

Palace Guard

term used in alluding to Richard Nixon’s zealous, ardent staff, with reference to Watergate and cover-up. [Am. Pop. Culture: Misc.]

white dittany

traditional symbol of zeal. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 173]

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At the age of womanhood, she was, by her own request, baptized, and became a member of the Christian church in the place; and showed so much intelligence, activity and zeal, and desire to do good in the world, that she was at last recommended, and approved as a missionary to one of the stations in Africa; and we have heard that the same activity and ingenuity which, when a child, made her so multiform and restless in her developments, is now employed, in a safer and wholesomer manner, in teaching the children of her own country.

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Konstantin Levin felt that there was no course open to him but to submit, or to confess to a lack of zeal for the public good.

But Konstantin Levin wanted to justify himself for the failing, of which he was conscious, of lack of zeal for the public welfare, and he went on.

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She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal. She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins.

He said that "These were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge.

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So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.