| 1. | With ardor to enjoy thee, fairer no. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large amativeness. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 4. | "And is this all the reward," said he, "for my ardor He's quite well.... - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | I should have felt terrible fear at seeing Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardor of battle must have been upon me as well as the rest of them. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 6. | Natasha, with the ardor characteristic of all she did suddenly set to work too. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | Villefort, being called on to prove the crime, was preparing his brief with the same ardor that he was accustomed to exercise when required to speak in criminal cases. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation but there was such an ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | _Itaque Solis ardore siccatur liquor et hoc esse masculum sidus accepimus, torrens cuncta sorbensque._ cp. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |