eagerness

Example Sentences

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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

But a Fool hath an Eagerness, like a Monkey in a Glass Shop, to break every thing in the handling.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of

Eagerness was in their faces, and confidence in their leader showed in their eyes.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Men are the same now, they were then, they have the same Passions, and run with the same Eagerness after Pleasures.

From The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry by Monk, Samuel Holt

Learning the cause of their sadness, because the Holy Eagerness which they had was not cooled, he provided a Piragua of his own, very capacious, with Indian rowers and Supplies necessary for all.

From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Means, Philip Ainsworth