There is more fervid imagination and daring ingenuity than business talent in Defoe's essay; if his trading speculations were conducted with equal rashness, it is not difficult to understand their failure.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
The detective suddenly leaned forward across his desk, his body tense, his eyes alight with fervid animation.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
Still many of the latter, in their boldness of conception and expression, and in their strong and fervid morality, are expressive of the original force of the poet, and of the Roman temper of his mind.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar