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"Then I will," I said with sudden passionateness, forgetting even that I was not Alresca's doctor.

From The Ghost A Modern Fantasy by Bennett, Arnold

There it is again, that wretched passionateness of your disposition, you should say to yourself, that this is the last of all hours, in which to abandon yourself thus.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

Thus he won for himself, by virtue of the passionateness and partisanship of the young, a success which gradually reacted with advantage upon those of riper years.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

He would have no parleying with oppression and violence, and notwithstanding his passionateness he really exercised a salutary and calming influence in the main, and one which told for goodness.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

Suddenly his features appeared to be strangely altered: a few minutes before they had portrayed all the fierce passionateness of his nature, now they were cold and stolid in their calmness.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)