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Sentences starting with eager

Eager to know what their contents were, she took them up, drew a stool to the window, and tried to read. [10]
Eager to hear their gossip, I appeared to sleep. [11]
Eager for new pleasure, he drew a long breath as he went out into the open air, pressed his hands upon his broad chest, and with his eyes fixed upon the commandant of Pelusium's galley, bedecked with flags, walked swiftly toward the landing place. [10]
Eager to learn how they would bear the test, she scanned her young shoulders and gazed at the burden which she intended to lay upon them. [10]
Eager and agile attendants rushed to the baggage-waggons, fetching thence, in a few moments, seats, tables, and golden utensils of all kinds. [10]

Sentences ending with eager

Hilton stooped over her, pale and eager. [11]
It's too bad--it's hard on him you should see," she said in a breath, and turned her head away for an instant; but presently looked him in the face again, all trembling and eager. [11]
The lightness passed from his words, and his face became eager. [11]
You make me eager. [10]
He came back and sat down, keen, eager. [11]
Nor was he alone excited and eager. [12]

Short sentences using eager

And he had eager listeners. [11]

Sentences containing eager two or more times

It was dark, and past supper-time, but the judge was not thinking of supper; he was eager to hear the slander refuted from headquarters, and as eager to have Howard hear it, too. [5]
Its shrill tones acted like magic on the eager crowd; the raised hands fell in a moment, the little tripping feet stood still, the opening lips closed and the eager tumult was turned into a dead silence. [10]

More example sentences with the word eager in them

A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
He believed in you, was so pitifully eager to believe in you even when the letter--" "Where is the letter? [11]
In that instance you were eager to flash out a hot rebuke and enjoy it. [5]
During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
Prepared for the worst, they trudged on with blind hope, eager to die fighting if they must die, rather than to perish of hunger and thirst in the desert. [11]
She was very woman, eager for the power which she had lost, and power was hard to get--by what devious ways had she travelled to find it! [11]
The countess looked with timid horror at her son's eager, excited face as he said this. [2]
Washington sprang forward, with the eager question on his lips, and the Senator said: "We may rejoice freely, now, my son--Providence has crowned our efforts with success. [5]
Demetrius was delighted with her eager enjoyment; presently, nudging the singer, she whispered to him with much satisfaction: "Look how the people down below are craning their necks to look at us! [10]
She did so with eager zeal; for it was she who had inspired her husband, before whom she had humbled herself, and whose love she now once more possessed, with the idea of inviting Joshua to the alliance both had now concluded. [10]
He now gazed with eager observation down the path which, as the day approached, stood out with increasing clearness from the surrounding shades, and his heart began to beat faster as he perceived a figure approaching the well, with rapid steps. [10]
She now listened with eager interest, sometimes completing Hermon's acknowledgments by an explanatory or propitiating word, as the leeches subjected him to a rigid examination, but the latter felt that his statements were not to serve curiosity, but an honest desire to aid him. [10]
She was listening with eager attention, with passionate expectation; her convulsively clenched toes betrayed her. [10]
When he returned, Wilhelm and Junker von Warmond were so engaged in eager conversation, that they did not notice his entrance. [10]
And she, to whom all that Orion had to say was addressed, listened to him not only with deep attention, but in a way which showed the merchant that she cared even more for the speaker than for what he was so eager in expressing. [10]
The bullets were whining and whistling so stimulatingly around him and his horse was so eager to go that he could not restrain himself. [2]
It was open when Dyck first saw it, because she was singing little bits of wild lyrics of the hills, little tragedies of Celtic life--just bursts of the Celtic soul, as it were, cheerful yet sad, buoyant and passionate, eager yet melancholy. [11]
But the Moslems were no less eager for the fray, and at the close of his council-of-war, and contrary to its decision, Kapudan Pacha sailed to meet the enemy. [10]
Fielding and Norman were eager and nervous, and their hands and faces seemed to have taken on the arid nature of the desert. [11]
He colored; she went on boldly, and with eager play of gesture. [10]
We are all well, and eager to see you. [4]
If this is well managed, the listener is always eager to believe a great deal more than the romancer seems willing to tell, and always resents the assumed reservations and doubts of the latter. [4]
At first they welcomed the whites, and were eager to trade with them--particularly for muskets; for their pastime was internecine war, and they greatly preferred the white man's weapons to their own. [5]
When the play was over she was immediately surrounded by enthusiastic admirers eager to congratulate her, to dance with her. [9]
The Brinsmade place was not far from the Fair Grounds,--now a receiving camp for the crude but eager regiments of the Northern states. [9]
True, his greeting was more eager and cordial than the genuine "sosiego"--which means "repose"--would have permitted. [10]
Excitable, eager, there was an elemental adaptability in the baker, as easily leading to Avernus as to Elysium. [11]
At bottom he was a little surprised at this, because although his theories had been all in that direction for some time, he was not prepared to find himself actually eager to measure strength with quite so common a man as this ruffian. [5]
If Mr. Carvel walks out of an evening, Grafton's arm is ever ready, and my uncle and his worthy lady are eager to take a hand at cards before supper. [9]
Life is so vivid to the poet, that he is too eager to seize and exhaust its multitudinous impressions. [6]
At the third verse he started up, and an eager, sun-burned face peered from the half-darkness at the singer. [11]
Monsieur Garon and Valmond talked on, eager, responsive, Valmond lost in the discussion of Napoleon, Garon in the man before him. [11]
The circle about us deepened with eager listeners, who uttered exclamations when Maisonville, between his answers, put up his hand to his bleeding head. [9]
As he reflected upon this he became less eager to look Fulkerson up and make the magazine a partner of his own sufferings. [8]
Our enormous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. [2]
He could now understand his father's tales of his Majesty's better days, his vigorous manly strength and eager delight in existence. [10]
To confess the truth I was quite as eager to see and treat fractures and wounds and injuries in great numbers, as I was to exercise benevolence. [10]
The nice old treasurer, and in fact all three were flatteringly eager to hear about our adventures. [5]
I was greatly touched by the offer you made me-- indeed, yes," she added, seeing the rapt eager look in his face. [11]
If ever man took large and eager hold of earthly things and appropriated them to his own use, it is the American. [4]
Damia and Porphyrius took a vain pleasure in their eager discussions, and clapped with delight, as though it were a game of skill, when Gorgo laughingly checkmated her excited opponent with some unanswerable argument. [10]
His manner was too eager to suit the impressiveness of his words. [11]
The Thracian listened to the description of the new art struggling to present truth, as if these things were welcome surprises, grand revelations, for which she had waited with eager longing. [10]
It is needless to say with what eager curiosity he entered its gates and wandered through its streets, and gazed upon its Oriental monuments. [4]
Society was eager to receive them to its bosom. [5]
The chaplain arose to pray for guidance, and the House was crowded to its capacity, and the gallery filled with eager and expectant faces--but the hero of the hour had not yet arrived. [9]
He was eager to make the acquaintance of the second beautiful E. "And Wolff Eysvogel? [10]
I was slow to learn that tongue; but Ann's head was not less apt than my brother's, and he was eager and diligent to keep her good speed at the like mark with his own, as she was so quick to apprehend. [10]
The Princess, eager to learn English, engaged her, and she had remained in the palace till the Princess left for England. [11]
I was eager to get to business and find relief, but she was distressingly deliberate. [5]
Jean is eager to get at the Italian tongue again, now, and I see that she has forgotten little or nothing of what she learned of it in Rome and Venice last spring. [5]
The agitatores had to exert all their strength to hold in the startled and eager teams, and make them stand even for a few short minutes; then Cynegius signalled for the third time. [10]
They immediately began to deliver a volley of eager questions at the friends around them: "What is this thing for? [5]
Caesar was eager to decide at once on the destination of each legion, and to call the legates together to a council of war; but Macrinus was not so prompt and ready as usual on such occasions. [10]
Melissa had hearkened to both counselors with eager ear, and both hung anxiously on her lips, while, as if taken out of herself, she gazed with panting bosom into the empty air. [10]
Darius, ever eager to acquire knowledge, did not wait to be asked twice, and was to be found there every night in earnest attention to the old priest's lessons. [10]
I took him to a neighboring university and made him discharge the burden of his persecuting rhymes into the eager ears of the poor, unthinking students. [5]
There was a timid knock at the door, and a forlorn little figure, clad in a rumpled calico, with an old shawl over her head, half concealing an eager and pretty face, stood in the doorway, and hesitatingly came in. [4]
Mazarine drove fast through the town, as though eager to put it behind him, but when he reached the trail on the prairie he slackened his pace, and drove steadily homewards, lost in the darkest reflections he had ever known; and that was saying much. [11]
Anxious spirits and throbbing hearts were those that now sought shelter in the Serapeum, fully prepared to perish with their god, and yet eager with enthusiasm to avert his fall if possible. [10]
Sometimes Augusta Maturin thought of Janet as a wildflower--one of the rare, shy ones, hiding under its leaves; sprung up in Hampton, of all places, crushed by a heedless foot, yet miraculously not destroyed, and already pushing forth new and eager tendrils. [9]
They knew that this would suggest the comparison between Caesar and the sanguinary wretch whose name had been applied to him, and all who were eager to give expression to their vexation or dissatisfaction took the hint and joined in the outcry. [10]
Whence then to-day this wild sensitiveness and eager desire to fight? [10]
The eager little thing sprang to her feet, her eyes flashed lightnings and her voice quivered with rage, as she exclaimed: "And you not only say it but mean it? [10]
To give up these "happy hunting-grounds" was a severe demand upon the eager sportsman who occupied the Rudolstadt throne, and the rustic population would gladly have spared him had it been possible. [10]
So he sits there through those twelve weeks while the session slips by, while his opponents grumble, and while even his supporters, eager for the charge, complain. [9]
Her eyes closed, then opened strangely wide upon him in an eager, staring appeal. [11]
Instinctively he picked them up one by one, and most of them were affectionately marked by marginal notes of criticism, approval, or reference; and all showing the eager, ardent mind of one who loved books. [11]
At their homes their wives sprang up with an eager "Well? [5]
While they flourished their weapons-some the sword and buckler, and others the not less terrible net and harpoon--the time-honored cry rose from their husky throats in eager acclamation: "Hail, Caesar! [10]
The reporters took their places and were all attention; the judge and lawyers were in their seats; the crowd swayed and pushed in eager expectancy, as the jury walked in and stood up in silence. [5]
His knowledge of the world, his habits of directness, his eager but not hurried speech, his unconventional but original statements of things, his occasional literary felicity and unusual tact, might have made him distinguished in a more cultured community. [11]
But at last the word "circumstance," casually dropped, in the course of conversation, attracted his attention and brought an eager look into his countenance. [5]
Dolgorukov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud of the victory that had been gained. [2]
Why "Thoughts on the Universe, by Byles Gridley, A. M.," had not met with an eager welcome and a permanent demand from the discriminating public, it would take us too long to inquire in detail. [6]
The flare of the torches which illuminated the street was mirrored in eager eyes glowing with wine and passion, and in the glittering weapons of the Roman soldiery. [10]
Power--power, that is the thing of all," she said, her eyes shining and her small fingers interlacing with eager vitality: "power to set waves of influence in motion which stir the waters on distant shores. [11]
I payed out the rope myself, while everybody watched the crawling thing with eager eyes. [5]
When Natasha left the room Pierre's confusion and awkwardness immediately vanished and were replaced by eager excitement. [2]
He had caught the ring in the voice, that rash enthusiasm of eager youth, and, taking a step towards Iberville, Count Frontenac's letter still poised in his hand: "Were your words meant for my hearing, monsieur? [11]
That quality in the picture which so long had satisfied and entranced him had now become repellent, an ugly significant reflection of something --something in himself he was suddenly eager to repudiate and deny. [9]
Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity--the eager talk, running to and fro, and dispatching of adjutants--was confined to the Emperor's headquarters. [2]
The newspaper details the morning after were read with that eager interest that the misfortunes of neighbors always excite. [4]
She was in the midst of this eager search when she awoke. [6]
For a moment the man and his wife showed an eager interest in this news and an impatience to go out and spread it; then a sudden something else betrayed itself in their faces, and they began to ask questions. [5]
With eager zeal the maid tried to induce her to put on the fresh and extremely tasteful Brussels gala robe. [10]
When they started, the ice had not yet all left the Ottawa River, and they wound their way through crowding floes, or portaged here and there for miles, the eager sun of spring above with scarcely a cloud to trail behind him. [11]
In front of the house Porphyrius and Karnis were standing in eager colloquy. [10]
This gentleman was the Honourable Edward Doby of Hale, who, with the kind assistance of the other gentlemen above-named, was in this secluded spot making up a list of his committees, undisturbed by eager country members. [9]
Behind these came the Grand Staff, all our great generals and famous names, and everybody was eager to get a sight of them. [5]
When he reached the drawing-room, surrounded by eager listeners, she was beginning to sing. [11]
Every face in the congregation was eager, and some were mystified, even anxious. [11]
Washington's connection with the concern was little more than nominal, and he felt small anxiety for himself, and was eager to escape from an occupation which had taken all the elasticity out of his mind. [4]
Rameses signed consent; the charioteer went close up to him, and they held a short but eager conversation in a low voice. [10]
Until they reached the Brucheium the hordes, so eager for booty, had refrained from plunder and pillage. [10]
Moreover, he fancied that she grew more eager, youthful, and sweet; and he marked that it was far easier to watch her and listen to her than it was to work. [13]
She came with that sense of manifold deficiencies, and eager ambition to supply them, which carries any learner upward, as if on wings, over the heads of the mechanical plodders and the indifferent routinists. [6]
The seconds had taken care to keep the locale from the knowledge of the public; especially as many who had come to know of the event at the Breakneck Club were eager to be present. [11]
Under a wide-spreading sycamore a vendor of eatables, spirituous drinks, and acids for cooling the water, had set up his stall, and close to him, a crowd of boatmen, and drivers shouted and disputed as they passed the time in eager games at morra. [10]

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