dead-earnest

And we went calmly on back to the ward like two dead-earnest professionals; but before the day was over, I asked her to go to the movies with me soon.

Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002

Not to mention the beautiful young housewives who ran devastating anti-aircraft batteries or their five-year-old sons who could toss hand grenades or the dead-earnest grown men whose every intent was to kill all the Yanks they could see, hear or sense at whatever cost to their own life and limb.

Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002

Not to mention the beautiful young housewives who ran devastating anti-aircraft batteries or their five-year-old sons who could toss hand grenades or the dead-earnest grown men whose every intent was to kill all the Yanks they could see, hear or sense at whatever cost to their own life and limb.

Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002

And we went calmly on back to the ward like two dead-earnest professionals; but before the day was over, I asked her to go to the movies with me soon.

Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002

They had not “got religion” yet, were hopeful of doing so and meanwhile bemoaned their state in deep dead-earnest.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

I was as dead-earnest in the order-making business as a traffic cop.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

They had not “got religion” yet, were hopeful of doing so and meanwhile bemoaned their state in deep dead-earnest.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

I was as dead-earnest in the order-making business as a traffic cop.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

It's a dead-earnest business out there, one hundred days of it, and every day has got to count.

Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

Nyoda, the fire in the country inn, the runaway girl and the dead-earnest hare and hound chase combine to make these three weeks the most exciting the Winnebagos have ever experienced.

The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping 1924