Eagerness

Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big ❋ Unknown (2010)

I get the impression that Darcy Burner really believes that eagerness is a substitute for depth. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What we call eagerness, enthusiasm, passion, refers to the intensity of an instinct, wish, desire or purpose. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Miss Jean heard their voices, first low and awestricken, rising in eagerness and loudness as they got further from the house. ❋ Margaret (1891)

Between me and the light, the better to see us, a lad had climbed on to a high ledge, close against the luxurious overhanging foliage – all lit up from the dying glow – of the precipitous rock, and, wearing only a red loin-cloth on his shining dusky skin, stretched forward in eagerness, quite unconscious of his graceful poise. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Their silent, concentrated eagerness is a piteous sight, as the cover is slowly lifted from the heavy brass box in which the dice are kept, on the cast of which many of them have staked all they possess. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

Mrs. Powle made them with ceremonious respect, not make believe, and with a certain eagerness which welcomed a diversion from Eleanor's somewhat troublesome agitation. ❋ Unknown (1864)

The child, as soon as he can use his limbs, pants for exercise: it is the instinct that seeks future welfare in present gratification; he flies with eagerness from the nursery to the garden; so Nature wisely stimulates to firm the limbs, and brace the whole system of the future man. ❋ Unknown (1798)

But it may perhaps have been a matter almost of indifference to him, till you undertook its defence; then make it of consequence by rising in eagerness, in proportion to the insignificance of your object; if he can draw consequences, this will be an excellent lesson: if you are so tender of blame in the veriest trifles, how impeachable must you be in matters of importance! ❋ Unknown (1798)

However, some of the volunteers that teach in the more rural areas maybe don’t receive the same sense of eagerness from the students to learn the language; as for some of students – it is something they will never need to use in their lifetime, ever again. ❋ Will (2008)

Looking back, he fondly recalled his eagerness to take any job in any dump or dive; after all, he just wanted to hone his talent and sing out! ❋ Unknown (2008)

He was a tall, well built, handsome man, about thirty years of age, with straight black hair, brushed upright from his forehead; his countenance gave the idea of eagerness and impetuosity, rather than cruelty or brutality. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Kim looked at him with what could only be described as eagerness. ❋ Jeri Taylor (1996)

If he tries to mount you it might be difficult to escape his eagerness, that is if you really don't want to 'go the entire way'. ❋ Zilch (1995)

Winston took up his glass with a certain eagerness. ❋ Unknown (1949)

I recall his eagerness to get out to the "bus" and to be on his way to the field. ❋ William Hanford Edwards (N/A)