Manders —perfervid — 'hell'-ing excitedly (was there no one left on earth to convert but me?), quoting over a century fromMarx andNietzsche toLenin,Lloyd George, andEden, and on to Vessant and Mundaine and himself...
In this case he saw himself sitting beside the breathing slender figure of Pia like someone in an old engraving – a beastly old Rembrandt exhaling theperfervid gloom of Protestantism and a diet of turnips.
Ah threw mahself down the porch steps and fell to mah knees in the middle of the yard, wringing mah hands and beating at the sky and wailing and reeling in the red dust and petitioning the almighty withperfervid prayer.
2002, Joseph O'Conner,Star of the Sea, Vintage, published2003, page 6:
A clown, Grantley Dixon, aperfervid parrot, with his militant slogans and second-hand attitudes: like all coffee-house radicals a screaming snob at heart.
