Scent and hearing had become wonderfully keen.

But Belle, behind all her light chatter, was unusually keen and observing.

In fact, not one of them was peculiarly keen to follow such a trail as this in the darkness.

He is extraordinarily keen, and if anybody could have found that drawer, he could.

"And I should say that abnormally keen person, the brother, will keep them up to collar.

The eldest of the three, a man past middle-age, with full beard and remarkably keen eyes, acted as spokesman for all.

Now you must know that the people of Tarascon were tremendously keen on hunting, and Tartarin was the chief of the hunters.

In that year he had the satisfaction of lecturing before British audiences on the results of his travels, and as it was the first time he had visited the land of his fathers the pleasure of seeing the old country under circumstances so honourable to himself was doubly keen.

Very imperfectly I have described the varied work of a man of limitless energy, with an exceptionally keen appreciation of men and things.

I do love to let my hunger grow mightily keen

"She loves this placeshe's awfully keen on art.

Or maybe Brede was out on no particular errand, but simply from pure zealho, he was mighty keen on his duty of late, was Brede!

He stands with a marvellously keen expression, going over in his mind from beginning to end the instructions for use that the storekeeper had read out; he sets a spring here, and shifts a bolt there, then he oils every hole and every crevice, then he looks over the whole thing once more.

Without a country!" He went even further, in one respect, in a letter to Mr. Walker, of Utica, of October 27, but his ordinarily keen prophetic vision was at fault: "Have you made up your mind to be under a future monarch, English or French, or some scion of a European stock of kings?

Sometimes Locker might seem to overlook the dominant features, the main object of the existence, either of a man or of some piece of man's work, in his sensitively keen perception of the beauty, or the lapse from beauty, of some trait of character or bit of workmanship.

He is quite an enthusiast, you know, and uncommonly keen to hear how the case develops.

It isn't that I care so much as all that about losing a couple of boarders, and I'm not specially keen on the Boutwoods.

Her hearing was strangely keen.

His sense of refinement was exquisitely keen, and now to be called Bill, and kicked and cuffed about by these gross-minded men, and to hear their rough, coarse, drunken talk, and sometimes endure their still, more intolerable familiarities, filled him with deeply-seated loathing.

Your uncle is a famous man, and the public who buy papers to-day are dead keen upon knowing even the most trifling things that such men do.

The clergyman, who had just conducted to the platform an elderly professor in a shabby frock coat, followed by three well-washed children, each of whom carried a concertina, now returned and sat down beside a middle-aged lady, who made herself conspicuous by using a gold framed eyeglass so as to convey an impression that she was an exceedingly keen observer.

"Let her live as long as she likes," Reginald declared, "if she's so jolly keen on it!"

Wherever he went, Dickens was a marvelously keen observer, with an active imagination which made stories out of incidents and characters that ordinary men would have hardly noticed.

But, as I shall here explain; after that time, I kept mine ears newly keen unto hearing; and did chide my Spirit, for that it had not taken account of that Sound a great while earlier.

The three men engaged in the perilous task of what the Arabs call asar, or enemy-tracking, lay prone, with bullets keening high overhead.