Lenore could only gasp her intense eagerness and sit trembling, hands over her heart, while the child babbled.

Much I could not even translate, yet enough reached my ears to convince me of the temper of the crewtheir feverish eagerness to be again at sea, under command of a captain whom they both hated and feared, yet whom they would follow to the very gates of hell.

Samuel heard the shutting of the kitchen door, and knew that Blossy was at home, and a strange shyness submerged of a sudden his eagerness to see her.

A half-million men had been called out; a million were waiting in passionate eagerness within a month; two hundred and fifty millions of money had been votedten times that amount was offered in a day.

she asked, with childish eagerness.

Make it seventy"avarice struggling on the dusky countenance"an'" "Done!" said Mr. Heatherbloom, endeavoring to disguise the fierce eagerness welling within him.

In a short time, by marches pressed on with the utmost eagerness, Charles reached Bohemia, leaving the Bavarians to regain the possession of the wasted plains of their country, which their enemies, who still kept the strong places, might again seize at will.

With frantic eagerness I got into the hole we had made and removed the soil with my hands, until I suddenly touched something hard.

" I turned, and seeing his desperate eagerness, precipitately fled, while he ran down behind me, uttering fierce imprecations in Italian, as though I had escaped him.

And these precepts, my Lucilius, have left some permanent results; for I embraced them with impetuous eagerness, and afterwards, when I entered upon a political career, I retained a few of my good beginnings.

Turning with restless eagerness from the agony, which even the sudden shock that rendered me half insensible could not deaden into endurable pain, to the passion of revenge, I led two or three of our party to the foot of the ladder beneath the entrance window of my vessel, and was about in their presence to explain his fate more fully to the struggling, howling victim, half mad with protracted terror.

There was a boyish eagerness in his manner; his changeful gray-brown eyes were alight; he came close and laid a hand on her armquite an unusual demonstration with Gray Stoddard.

There was the same wild gleam in his eyes; his hand shook with nervous eagerness as he shifted and balanced his revolver.

Ordinarily officers of the U.S. Navy do not scuttle on deck like a crowd of curious schoolgirls, but all hands had been keyed to a high pitch over the elusive light, and the bet with Edwards now served as an excuse for the betrayal of unusual eagerness.

Whatever the airs of pompous importance they may assume as they come, back of it all we farmers can see the look of wistful eagerness in their eyes.

I asked, in breathless eagerness.

Rudolph, wondering if they saw him wince, listened with painful eagerness.

Then, however, he discovered the engaging spontaneity of a schoolboy at a pantomime, and drawing up a chair sat on the edge of it and addressed himself with unaffected eagerness to the most portentous eyebrows in captivity.

Sofia, indeed, was often puzzled to account for what to her appeared to be an almost pathetic eagerness on the part of Victor, in strange accord with his lofty pretensions, to claim acquaintanceship with and win the recognition even of persons of the utmost inconsequence.

There she had all the advantages for which she had hungered and thirsted; and, like one who had long hungered and thirsted, she devoured them with fatal eagerness.

Hasty's eyes followed every movement of her child with the in tensest eagerness, as if fearing that she too would be taken from her.

" "And my man?" she demanded, with tremulous eagerness.

But now I bought up the back numbers of the Voltaire, and I looked forward to the weekly exposition of the new faith with febrile eagerness.

After a while she looked at Margaret furtively, with a pitiful eagerness.

The other cowboys, it was quite evident to her intuitive woman's mind, had looked forward with considerable eagerness to the arrival of herself and Ophelia.