eagerness

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"Eagerness, excitement, anxiousness, to give this organization and the Jones family everything they invested in," Prescott said.

From Fox News • Mar. 10, 2021

Eagerness for any activity was curtailed in a man whose self seemed to be oozing into his shadow, and he was no exception.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

My Affections are so strongly engaged, and my Fears are so raised, by what I have already read, that I cannot express my Eagerness to see the rest.

From Fielding by Dobson, Austin

Eagerness is liable to frequent abuses, and is good or bad, as the case may be.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E by Project Gutenberg

The Eagerness with which the Duke of Orleans seized the Ministry, confirmed the Public in their Opinion, that the Cardinal had entertained a Thought of asserting his own Independency.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von