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Sentences ending with eagerness

After that he watched with a thrilling eagerness. [13]
He had immense vitality, he was tireless, and abundant in work and industry; he went from one thing to another with ease and swiftly changing eagerness. [11]
His eyes stood out in eagerness. [11]
He delivered himself of the brief details of the diary's first day, and did it with some confidence and a fair degree of eagerness. [5]
It showed, too, in the light of big eyes and the gentle reach of eagerness. [13]
Who can wonder, if, when at last they gain their liberty, they plunge into the pleasures of life with a tenfold eagerness? [10]
Then suddenly there flashed into my mind my words to him, "blow us all to pieces," and his consternation and strange eagerness. [11]
Still, day after day, the bears kept clawing down, and Jack watched the stock-list with increasing eagerness. [4]
The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. [9]

More example sentences with the word eagerness in them

Then he had worked a little, afterwards more, and now, lastly, since he had seen what they had done to Pierre, with the hot but firm eagerness of an avenging giant. [11]
And the cordiality with which he gave help whenever it was asked, and his eagerness to acknowledge merit in others, secured him the affection of all the literary class, which is popularly supposed to have a rare appreciation of the defects of fellow craftsmen. [4]
My mother strode with the same eagerness in her eye and her step, to the counter, and said: "Is Dr. Barrett of St. Louis, here? [5]
Philip searched them with the feverish eagerness of a maiden who scans the report of a battle in which her lover has been engaged. [4]
Aristides was breathless with eagerness, and Caesar, snatching the tablets impatiently from his hand, read the following lines: "Wanton, I say, is this dam of irreconcilable brothers! [10]
She was blazing with eagerness to see one of those already celebrated murderers, and she started on the errand at once. [5]
Although Henderson gave what time he could spare to the design and erection of the building, it pleased him to call it Margaret's house, and to see the eagerness with which she entered into its embellishment. [4]
Perhaps, too, there was a look of anger in them--not against the King, for there was a sort of eagerness or appealing in the glance she cast towards his Majesty. [11]
I recited them very much as I had done the night before, and I warrant you, my dears, that they listened with more zest and eagerness than did Mr. Walpole. [9]
She sought in vain in them for those evidences of spontaneous love, of delight in writing to her of all persons in the world, the eagerness of the lover that she recalled in letters written in other days. [4]
He is an unemotional character, living in his business almost as exclusively as the Scarabee, but without any of that eagerness and enthusiasm which belong to our scientific specialist. [6]
Jethro Bass, rugged, uncouth, in rawhide boots and swallowtail and coonskin cap, came down from the porch to welcome her, and she ran toward him with an eagerness that started the painter to wondering afresh over the contrasts of life. [9]
The water was trickling out of a leaky butt, and a most wretched cat was lapping up the drops with the sickly eagerness of starvation. [12]
Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. [2]
She sprang forward to meet Boges, trembling with eagerness, caught a hasty glance at herself in the looking-glass, and then, fixing her eyes on the eunuch, asked impetuously: "Are you pleased with me? [10]
She came close to him, and, out of the frank eagerness of her nature, laid her hand upon his arm, and looked him in the eyes with an almost tender appealing. [11]
He had expected to find a certain amount of eagerness and subserviency--though veiled; here was a man of different calibre than he looked for in Ripton. [9]
It was for these things he longed, these things made him yearn with such passionate eagerness for deliverance, liberty. [10]
It was still there, he felt; but how much else was also there--of charm, of elusiveness, of wit, of mental adroitness, of joyous eagerness to discover a new thought or a new thing! [11]
The eyes of the young men sparkled with eagerness for the fray, and many a head of cattle was slaughtered to make the meal a festal banquet. [10]
Now, he felt, the spell was broken; curiosity and eagerness took the place of reverence for death. [10]
Do you observe the same old eagerness, the same old hurry, springing from the fear that if he does not move with the utmost swiftness, that colossal opportunity will escape him? [5]
Then Miriam dropped the restraint she had hitherto imposed on herself and, with defiant eagerness, continued: "There I am of a different opinion. [10]
The prophetess kissed the poor desolate wife's forehead, glanced at her as if she had neglected her in some way, and then questioned the messengers with urgent eagerness concerning their news of Reuben, who had been dragged to the mines. [10]
Once or twice the old man had taken his hands in both of his own, and gazed with painful eagerness into his face, as though trying to remember or to comprehend something that eluded him. [11]
On the road the man pulled his resolution together, and began the march with a steady gait, but there was no eagerness in it. [5]
Perhaps among all the letters he ever wrote, there is none more characteristic than this confession of violence and eagerness for reprisal, followed by his acknowledgment of error and a manifest appreciation of his own weakness. [5]
After they left, the instructor asked many curious questions about him,--who he was, how long he had been in the village, whether anything was known of his history,--all these inquiries with an eagerness which implied some special and peculiar reason for the interest they evinced. [6]
The very interest, the eagerness with which she took part in their discussions seemed to him in the nature of an emphatic repudiation of any ties to him which might have been binding. [9]
The landlord and the clerks had smiles as wide as the open doors; the waiters exhibited in their eagerness a good imitation of unselfish service. [4]
The disadvantage is that products, in the eagerness of competition for a market, are accepted which are of a character to harm and not help the development of the contemporary mind in moral and intellectual strength. [4]
He had welcomed Sinnet with a sullen eagerness, and had told him in short, detached sentences the dark story of a wrong and a waiting revenge, which brought a slight flush to Sinnet's pale face and awakened a curious light in his eyes. [11]
With passionate eagerness she entreated the emperor to grant a pardon, but he cut her short with the request not to interfere in matters which he alone had to decide and answer for. [10]
Surrounding Victoria were several clean-looking, freckled, and tanned young men of undergraduate age wearing straw hats with coloured ribbons, who showed every eagerness to obey and even anticipate the orders she did not hesitate to give them. [9]
I was soon satisfied that the knowledge of who these three prisoners were had somehow changed the atmosphere; that our hosts' continued eagerness to go and spread the news was now only pretended and not real. [5]
It was the only joy he had in life; these hours were the only ones in the twenty-four which he looked forward to with eagerness and spent in happiness. [5]
The chief leaders, on whom all eyes rested with trusting eagerness, were followed by old Nun and the Ephraimites. [10]
The cruel blows of fate which had fallen on Herdegen had not been all in vain, and the growing weakness of his frame warned him not to spend his strength and eagerness on new and ever new things. [10]
The busy eagerness of a pioneer life was still a quiet, orderly thing, so immense was the theatre for effort and movement. [11]
I had forgotten my eagerness to know whence they had heard of my plight, when some words from Comyn aroused me. [9]
However, before the messenger had mounted his mule, she begged him to wait yet a few minutes and returned to the two men; for she had forgotten in her eagerness to speak to them of Orion's plans. [10]
My eagerness to make the acquaintance of such an associate in my sympathies and my labors may be well imagined. [6]
Such is their love for all good objects, such their eagerness to sympathize with all their suffering fellow-creatures! [6]
Perhaps, indeed, his keen taste for the one had much to do with his eagerness for the other--though most men find getting gold as cheerful as getting married. [11]
Wolf assented with joyous eagerness, while Barbara's cheeks crimsoned with pleasure at so valuable a promise. [10]
The ironclads, followed in hot haste by General Sherman in a navy tug, had gone ahead, and were even then shoving with their noses great trunks of trees in their eagerness to get behind the Rebels. [9]
Yet, no," and in her eagerness she flung her bandaged hand so high into the air that she groaned with pain and was forced to keep silence. [10]
Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied and drowsy Kutuzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and president of the council of war. [2]
Impulse was written in every feature, in the passionate eagerness of her body; yet the line from the forehead to the chin, and the firm shapeliness of the chin itself, gave promise of great strength of will. [11]
But she succeeded in curbing her wrath, and displaying intense eagerness, as she shaded her eyes with her hand and gazed toward some ships that appeared in view. [10]
And once, in his eagerness, he fell and cut his forehead. [9]
For an instant he was astounded to see Lassiter stunned; then his own passionate eagerness to unbosom himself, to tell the wonderful story, precluded any other thought. [13]
Obtaining the permission he desired, he darted off with breathless eagerness, and, still carrying the birdcage in his hand, made straight towards the spot. [12]
After the torches had ceased to burn, a single tallow candle in a wrought-iron candlestick afforded the two men light, and threatened to go out when, in the eagerness of their conversation, they forgot to use the snuffers. [10]
When Dame Berenike had again, and with particular eagerness, suggested her ship, Andreas had exclaimed: "In the garden, on the ship, under the earth--only not back to Caesar! [10]
Hodder rose to greet her with an eagerness which, from his kindly yet penetrating glance, she did not suspect. [9]
Our eagerness to get on, indeed, almost melted away, and we were scarcely impatient at all when the boat lounged into Halifax Bay, past Salutation Point and stopped at Summerside. [4]
His eagerness to get his father's answer began to grow, now, and it grew with marvelous celerity, after it began. [5]
Till now, eagerness for the fray, fear, hope, and the joyful consciousness of right-doing, had alternated in her mind. [10]
Europe has offered few opportunities for poor Tom, Dick, and Harry; but when she has offered one, there has been no noticeable difference between European eagerness and American. [5]
With no great eagerness, but without apology to Austen, Mr. Crewe stepped out of the window and approached them; and as this was as good a way as any to his horse and buggy, Austen followed. [9]
Imagine the devouring eagerness with which I pored over those mazy red spirals, with that document by my side which bore the right-hand thumb-and-finger- marks of that unknown murderer, printed with the dearest blood--to me-- that was ever shed on this earth! [5]
I turned with eagerness to the original of the picture that had ever remained hung up in sanctity in my mind. [4]
Why, in their eagerness to get at General Taylor, several Democratic members here have desired to know whether, in case of his election, a bankrupt law is to be established. [7]
We read with eagerness the cast-off newspapers of the first-floor gentlemen. [9]
Nor was his eagerness damped when he discovered that such people never came to the ordinary, but were served in their own rooms by their own servants. [9]
I concealed my eagerness as I took it and broke the seal, to discover that it was not from Dorothy, but from Mrs. [9]
The causes of disease, in the mean time, have been less earnestly studied in the eagerness of the search for remedies. [3]
She reached their destination long before her husband, and without waiting for him, but constantly in the society of her old duenna, she gave herself up with the freedom and eagerness of her fresh youth to the delights of seeing and admiring. [10]
Our friend the chamberlain was now humility itself, and fairly ran in his eagerness to anticipate Comyn's demands. [9]
The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case, and on New England in the other, does not disprove the sameness of the two things. [7]
Then they were brought out, smooth, shining, fine-drawn, frisky, spirit-stirring to look upon,--most beautiful of all the bay horse Ormonde, who could hardly be restrained, such was his eagerness for action. [6]
That would surely be the result"--she raised her voice in passionate eagerness as she spoke: "I know myself. [10]
Tachot could not be seen from below; but listening with feverish eagerness, she could hear much that was said. [10]
The teacher must be able to inspire the pupil; not only to awaken eagerness to know, but to kindle the imagination. [4]
Our eyes lingered as long as possible and with all eagerness upon these meadows and marshes which the poet has made immortal, and we regretted that inexorable Baddeck would not permit us to be pilgrims for a day in this Acadian land. [4]
Venters's curious eagerness and expectation had not prepared him for the shock he received when he stood over a slight, dark figure. [13]
He drew from an inner pocket a long envelope, and his hand trembled, though with seeming eagerness, as he held it out to Mr. Flint. [9]
He had, perhaps, an exaggerated belief in the greatness of his own country, because he liked eagerness and energy and daring. [11]
It seemed that all these men, now that they had stopped amid fields in the chill dusk of the autumn evening, experienced one and the same feeling of unpleasant awakening from the hurry and eagerness to push on that had seized them at the start. [2]
They started; and all the way my mother was young again with excitement, interest, eagerness, anticipation. [5]
They fought with all the power at their command, with such passionate eagerness, that the dictator had never been nearer succumbing to peril. [10]
She looked round, all delirious eagerness for the nude figure. [11]
Since Myrtilus was again near him Hermon had devoted himself with fresh eagerness to his artistic task, while a voice within cried more and more loudly that the success of his new work depended entirely upon Ledscha. [10]
I hid behind a boulder and polished it and scrutinized it with a nervous eagerness and a delight that was more pronounced than absolute certainty itself could have afforded. [5]

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