ardours

It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.

The Trail of Meat 2010

To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine — such things were remuneration in full for his ardours and toils, while his ardours and tolls were in themselves self-remunerative.

The Law of Meat 2010

An alien approaches a human spaceship, the occupant of which is an astronaut taking recreational drugs to cope with the ardours of a long space journey.

Science fiction mystery « Squares of Wheat 2010

February 28th, 2009 at 5: 26 am the ardours of lawn tennis

Balls, picnics and parties! | clusterflock 2009

The ardours of calfdom and whelpage that you smile at I would have you throb with.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

I approach her, not with the milk-and-water ardours of first youth, nor with the lusty love madness of young manhood, but as an intellectual man, seeking for self and mate the ripe and rounded manhood and womanhood which comes only through the having of children — children which must be properly born and bred.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

An alien approaches a human spaceship, the occupant of which is an astronaut taking recreational drugs to cope with the ardours of a long space journey.

April « 2010 « Squares of Wheat 2010

February 28th, 2009 at 5:26 am the ardours of lawn tennis

Balls, picnics and parties! | clusterflock 2009

I shall avenge myself on those who have insulted me, for their insults to myself and family, yet will I tear out my heart from this bosom (if possible with my own hands) were it to scruple to give up its ardours to a woman capable of such a preference.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

‘His clenched fist to his forehead on your leaving him in just displeasure’ — that is, when she was not satisfied with my ardours, if it please ye! —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006