Usage examples for earnest
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Father Jervis had come to him as he had promised, for half an hour's good talk before lunch; and they had spent a very earnest thirty minutes together. – Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson
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What shall I read to- night- Earnest Maltravers? – The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller
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The last words were said with such an accent of earnest determination, that Mr. Wharncliffe again had almost smiled at his scholar; but he did not. – Trading by Susan Warner