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Sentences starting with keen

Keen of Philadelphia informs me that some snakes which he kept learned after four or five times to avoid a noose, with which they were at first easily caught. [1]

Sentences ending with keen

Nevertheless, his disappointment was keen. [9]
Cynthia's instincts were very keen. [9]
But precisely in this work my organ for beauty has become blunt rather than keen. [10]
Plutarch's eyesight was stronger than his legs were, and where a pretty woman was to be seen, it was always very keen. [10]
True, she had not wished to reveal it, but his eyes were keen. [10]
But his scent, like the animal's, was keen. [11]
A vessel was in the harbour, and his delight was keen. [11]
I suppose I have mostly lost my smell for bores; but yours is preternaturally keen. [5]
I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen. [5]

Short sentences using keen

He was keen enough. [11]

More example sentences with the word keen in them

But fear gives you a watchful eye and keen, and I read the true name through the scratches, and fled like a deer. [5]
He looked ten years older, and she felt with him the keen suffering which every step must cause. [10]
In the first year of their marriage he used to consult her about all his schemes, and value her keen understanding. [4]
A keen observer would have seen in the glowing, unrestful look, in the hot cheek, in the interlacing fingers, that a contest was going on in the woman's soul, as she drove homeward with all that was her own in the world. [11]
Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
The Citizen Quartermaster wore his hair long in the backwoods fashion; he had a keen, pale face and sunken eyes. [9]
How could she withstand the charm of his keen knowledge of the world, the fascination of his temperament, the alluring eloquence of his frank wickedness? [11]
The brief questions with which he received the blind artist were kindly, and as natural as though addressing an equal, and every remark made in connection with Hermon's answers revealed a very quick and keen intellect. [10]
He also listened with keen attention when the scientists finally discussed in low tones what they had perceived, and caught the words, "White scar on the cornea," "leucoma," and "operation. [10]
When I sat with her on deck at night, I seemed to feel Boyd Madras's face looking at me from the half-darkness of the after-deck; and Mrs. Falchion, whose keen eyes missed little, remarked once on my gaze in that direction. [11]
He had dined with country people, and had dined them; had entered upon the fag-end of the London season with keen, amused enjoyment; and had engrafted every little use of the convention. [11]
It perfectly consisted with a keen sense of whatever was sordid and selfish in a man on whom his career must have had its inevitable effect. [8]
Nay, and I will even pledge my word that I will tear asunder the subtlest web which Ursula may spin, in especial if I have Ann's keen wit to aid me. [10]
The keen tradesmen who tempt us are like the fishermen who dangle a minnow, a frog, or a worm before the perch or pickerel who may be on the lookout for his breakfast. [6]
Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought. [10]
There are those who prefer a warm bath to a brisk walk in the inspiring air, where ten thousand keen influences minister to the sense of beauty and run along the excited nerves. [4]
The cavalry singers were passing close by: Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land. [2]
But Dion's ears were keen, and he fancied he heard subdued voices on the other side of the dwelling. [10]
Richard and I were brought up as brother and sister, and you know you were full as keen for his rescue as I. [9]
But his perceptions were as keen as Nelson Langmaid's, and like Langmaid, he had gradually become conscious of a certain baffling personality in the new rector of St. John's. [9]
As the weather was mild, the latter sat in an open sedan chair, and when he saw Geronimo he scanned him with the keen glance of the ruler, and then looked inquiringly at my husband. [10]
Every man present was full-sprung with wine; and a distance away, a gentleman on either side of him, stood the Intendant, smiling detestably, a keen, houndlike look shooting out of his small round eyes. [11]
A keen wind was blowing, and rushed against them fiercely: bleaching the hard ground, shaking the white frost from the trees and hedges, and whirling it away like dust. [12]
Her mental sight was as keen and accurate as that which runs along the rifle-barrel of the great hunter with the red deer in view. [11]
Mark Twain's mother was a woman of sturdy character and with a keen sense of humor and tender sympathies. [5]
It required keen vision to see any movement whatever in the purple clouds. [13]
The officer, a very young lad with a broad rosy face and keen merry eyes, galloped up to Denisov and handed him a sodden envelope. [2]
It needed no very keen perception to discover this part of the enemies program, so soon as by open hostilities their machinery was fairly put in motion. [7]
It required no very keen eye to see the breakers ahead, and Mr. Bordley's advice to provide against seven years of famine did not go unheeded. [9]
And straight before Venters was a scene less striking but more significant to his keen survey. [13]
Ann drew herself up with pride and hastily answered that if any one craved news of him he had best apply to Mistress Ursula Tetzel, inasmuch as she was ever wont to have a keen eye on her dear cousin. [10]
He knew the two first very well, and not a word of what they were saying escaped his keen ear. [10]
Will she not turn her swift wheel, when I again, with clear eyes, see Daphne, and am permitted to work in my studio once more with keen eyes and steady hand? [10]
Meanwhile, Daphne had tried honestly to conceal her feelings from the old man, but such games of hide and seek were useless against the master's keen penetration. [10]
His keen eyes, too, failed, for the objects he tried to see blended with the dust of the road, the horizon reeled up and down before his eyes, and he felt as though the hard pavement had turned to a yielding bog under his feet. [10]
Features a little too sharp, a keen, gray eye, a quick and restless glance, which rather avoided being met, gave the impression that she was a wide-awake, cautious, suspicious, and, very possibly, crafty person. [6]
The Cure had told his brother the story, and had been met by a keen, astonished interest in the unknown man on Vadrome Mountain. [11]
No need now to tremble for the hard frost and the keen wind. [14]
Dicky drew over to the lady, with a keen warning glance at Kingsley. [11]
He was keen to see, to do, and to feel. [11]
There came up to Pierre's keen ears the sound of the river. [11]
On the ride to Nuremberg he had perceived in Heinz a pious heart and a keen intellect which yearned for higher things. [10]
She was well to leeward of us, and the Araminta bore up under all sail, keen for action. [11]
They were keen to know how much of skill was likely to enter into this duel, for each meant that it should be deadly. [11]
It is important to catch this brief glimpse of the man for whom this masterpiece was written, for without it one can not fully understand the spirit in which 1601 was written, or the keen enjoyment which Mark and "Joe" derived from it. [5]
Titianus had failed to be present at the emperor's arrival, and keen courtier noses smelled a fall, and judged it wise to keep out of the way of a tottering power. [10]
At the same time she pressed her lips so tightly together that her toothless mouth deepened into a hole, and her dim eyes shone with a keen, menacing light. [10]
At the same time she gazed into his eyes with a keen, penetrating glance, and interrupted him by the question: "The Greek sculptor whose studio was burned over his head? [10]
From time to time Paulus murmured in a low voice, but in tones of keen anguish, "In vain--all in vain--" and again, "I seek, I seek--but who can show me the way? [10]
The attention of this great scholar and influential man had been attracted by Brugsch's first Egyptological works, which he had commenced before he left school, and his keen eye recognized their value as well as the genius of their author. [10]
A tall and thin gentleman, who had come out of the inn without a hat, was surveying the dispute with a keen delight. [9]
You see what these priests say under oath--picked men, men chosen for their places in that terrible court on account of their learning, their experience, their keen and practised intellects, and their strong bias against the prisoner. [5]
But his eyes themselves were fiery and keen and there was reckless daring in every turn of his body. [11]
Some slouched in their chairs, others stood and talked in groups, gesticulating with cigars and pipes; yet a keen spectator, after watching them awhile through the smoke, might have been able to pick out striking personalities among them. [9]
They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
Her father enjoyed the society of his favorite daughter as he did few things besides; he liked her mirthful and teasing ways, and not less a keen battle over something she had read. [5]
She hastened down the platform still with keen eyes scanning the passengers, who were mostly alighting to stretch their legs and get a breath of air. [11]
Her glance at the men was keen at first, then neutral. [11]
Oh, it's down the long side of Farcalladen Rise, And it's swift as an arrow and straight as a spear, And it's keen as the frost when the summer-time dies, That we rode to the glen, and with never a fear. [11]
He had remarked the keen, curious eye, the musing look, the habitual disdain at the lips. [11]
It had been the keen eye of Mr. Stephen Chippering that first had marked him, questioned him, recognized his ability, and from the moment of that encounter his advance had been rapid. [9]
As soon as the helmsman's keen eyes had made sure, from the mast-head, that the Arabs had forded the river at a point to the south, they set fire to several places and it roared and flared up immediately. [10]
In spite of the height of the topmost window of the steeple where she stood, her keen eyes showed her that Maximilian's seat was still vacant. [10]
I had seen the heads and faces of ten youths gashed in every direction by the keen two-edged blades, and yet had not seen a victim wince, nor heard a moan, or detected any fleeting expression which confessed the sharp pain the hurts were inflicting. [5]
The rivalry between the Governor and the Intendant was keen and vital at this time, though it changed later, as I will show. [11]
True, he was the father of her Wolff, but the son resembled this cold-hearted man only in his unusual stature, and a chill ran through her veins as she felt the stately old merchant's blue eyes, still keen and glittering, rest upon her. [10]
The eye of the chief ran up and down his form, from his keen blue eyes to his small strong ankle. [11]
Roused again by the baying pack, she leaped forward with better speed, though without that keen feeling of exhilarating flight that she had in the morning. [4]
The perceptions of the banker were as keen, and his sense of security was brief. [9]
Hours elapsed ere the advancing multitude reached the camp, and Miriam who stood describing to Amminadab, whose eyes were no longer keen enough to discern distant objects, what was passing below, witnessed many an incident from which she would fain have averted her gaze. [10]
This told her that when he returned from a certain cruise he would visit her again, for he was such an enemy to her country that he was keen to win what did it most honour. [11]
It is true that men often forget them or act against their bidding in the keen competition of business and politics. [6]
I dare say that in the perplexing excitement of the day he did recall for a moment with a keen thrust of regret the scene of the morning-his wife standing there flushed, wounded, indignant. [4]
Albeit, up on that height meseemed a keen wind was blowing, which she did battle with so hardly that through many a still night I could hear her sighs. [10]
It shows, also, that he has a keen delight in the every-day aspects of nature. [6]
How could I tell him that my longings to do something, to be somebody in the world were never more keen than at that moment? [9]
Some did not suspect this, others forgot it because they beheld a brilliant personage with keen perceptions who would not submit to being bored. [9]
Being a keen student of human nature, he rightly supposed that she would not care to join the colony, but he thought it his duty to mention that there was a colony. [9]
Tall, lean, with strong, bold features, a keen, scholarly, accipitrine nose, thin, expressive lips, great solemnity and impressiveness of voice and manner, he was my early model of a classic orator. [6]
Her keen eyes sparkled under her plainly parted hair and the green de-laine moulded itself in those unmistakable lines of natural symmetry in which Nature indulges a small shopkeeper's daughter occasionally as well as a wholesale dealer's young ladies. [6]
It's a wonderful sound on a hot, clear day--that wild, keen singing of the saws, like the cry of a live thing fighting and conquering. [11]
Every little while some giant tree yielded the fight and fell crashing through the younger growth; and the unflagging thunder-peals came now in ear-splitting explosive bursts, keen and sharp, and unspeakably appalling. [5]
She had lived so long in close commerce with storm and sea that something of their keen force had entered into her, and she was kin with them. [11]
Stephanus, whose feeble sight could not reach so far as the plain at the foot of the declivity, made Paulus report to him all that was going on there, and with the keen insight of a soldier he comprehended the centurion's plan. [10]
He was so shrewd, so keen, so full of practical sense, and so good-humored as long as things went on to his liking, that few could resist his fascination. [6]
When he paused, Shon let go a long breath, and Lawless looked with keen inquiry at their entertainer. [11]
Where are the shears that are keen enough to cut the shadow from beneath our feet? [10]
Under this influence she entered upon her studies with keen enjoyment, finding for a time all the relaxation she needed, in the charming social life at the Montague house. [5]
Did her keen senses deceive her, or was not what was occurring actually a mysterious transformation? [10]
He had a sense of humour, and he enjoyed her keen chastening raillery. [11]
Remembering his keen sense of humor, Clemens reported to him cheering and amusing incidents. [5]
Did you never see how beautiful and modest the faces of deer are; how chic and sensitive is the manner of a hound; nor the keen, warm look in the eye of a well-bred mare? [11]
The horses could run as well there, but keen eyesight and judgment must constantly be used by the riders in choosing ground. [13]
Pharaoh signed to Rui a second time and, as the monarch sank back upon his throne, the old man, fixing his keen eyes on Hosea, replied: "The demand which the lord of both worlds makes upon you by my lips is easy to fulfil. [10]
I've heard my riders say he's as keen as a wolf.... "As to your reading my thoughts--well, your suggestion makes an actual thought of what was only one of my dreams. [13]
And it was remarked by keen observers that his Honor the Mayor had taken hold once more of the Prince's elbow, who divided his talk with Colonel Carver. [9]
He had a quick fierce temper, but it had never been severely tried; and so well used was he to looking cheerfully upon things, so keen had been his zest in living, that, where himself was concerned, his vanity was not easily touched. [11]
So the first question he addressed to Gras concerned the Tennis goldsmith, and it was a keen disappointment to Hermon when he learned that the earliest time he could expect to see him would be the following day. [10]
Kuni watched the proud couple a long time, and, with the keen insight of a loving heart, told herself that he would have pointed her out to Frau Katharina, if he did not remember her in some way--either in kindness or in anger. [10]
It was scarcely possible that anyone could have anticipated him with the glad news, and spite of his seventy-two years the city clerk had retained the keen eyes of youth. [10]

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