Zeal

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"Zeal" in a Sentence (21 examples)

Zeal for your house will consume me.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.

He did it with great zeal.

She shows no zeal for her work.

She entered into conversation with zeal.

Obviously we will help but please remember that what decides it in the end is your zeal.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal.

Because zeal for Thy house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach Thee are fallen upon me.

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She extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal.

I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will

[…] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.

[He] would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover,

It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.

The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.

[…] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!

[…] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;

A zeal of zebras confuses predators. Each zebra has a different set of stripes.

Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.

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