Meanings of sudden zeal in English

Their sudden zeal made them perspire.

With magnificent scorn he tells Caiaphas that he is "astounded at his sudden zeal for Caesar."

With a sudden zeal that was half earnest and half a freak of vanity, he devoted himself to Adèle.

Your sudden zeal to relieve those ladies of their plates serves as a very good excuse for the relinquishment of your own.

Columbus, thinking that he had been in the very vicinity of Cathay, exclaims with sudden zeal, Who will offer himself for this task?

Possibly evening grosbeaks were in vogue for the next season's millinery, or perhaps Eastern ornithologists had a sudden zeal to investigate their structural anatomy.

"Then I'm going out, too," declared Will, with sudden zeal, as he snatched up his camera and threw the strap over his shoulder.