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The two earnest-minded women knelt down by the bedside, and Gladys offered up a simple prayer in her clear, strong language, for the 'poor lamb who had strayed from the fold;' in which the mother joined in the midst of her sobs and tears.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

A journey the prospect of which would horrify a tradesman at home is undertaken by an earnest-minded shop-keeping Moor as a matter of course.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

The quaint felicities and pious unction of this earnest-minded old English poet and divine, with his sweet and saintly spirit, will always keep his memory fresh among the readers of the best contemplative literature.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

He always gave me the impression of an earnest-minded, hard-working boy, with a deep sense of duty.

Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson

And how, if earnest-minded and sincere, can he fail to look upon the interests of the St.te as subordinate to the interests of the Church, and interpret his duties and obligations as the legatee of Constantine by his feelings and convictions as the successor of St. Peter?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

Rudolf of Hapsburg were good, earnest-minded men, who put an end to the long-standing feud between Rome and the empire, and after a succession of short pontificates, Boniface VIII.

A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt

They were probably proselytes from some of the Greek cities about the Mediterranean where the synagogue offered to the earnest-minded a welcome relief from the foolishness and corruption of what was left of religion in the heathen world.

The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rush Rhees

But it is amongst earnest-minded Indians who have been baptized by dissenters that difficulties develop.

India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

"One has _no_ chance for fun with an earnest-minded son," Mrs. Hewitt complained amiably.

The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

When earnest-minded people made pilgrimages down the narrow, cobbled street, picked their way carefully over puddles in the patio, and clattered up the uncertain stairs for a glimpse of the great and yet so simple personage, she would cry, "Here come the pretty sheep!"

The Martyr 1923