Which preposition to use with keens
The old statesman was as keen as ever, receiving every day all sorts of deputations, advising, warning, encouraging, and quite confident as to the result of the elections.
And Edith, dear Edithshe, too, must be frightfully keen on him, when one came to think about it, to forgive him so readily about Margaret TowOh, confound Miss Townsend.
They were keen for experiences and disposed to be very friendly to her.
All the ambassadors and foreigners were very keen about the review, paying great attention to the size of the men and horses and their general equipment.
Mr. Thompson's mind was somewhat erratic at times, but keen in some ways, nevertheless.
Bevies of birds, supernaturally keen of sight, have dropped upon the twigs that lie on the glittering bosom of the water.
The light-blue eyes, keen with sea-cunning and the lonely sight of many far horizons, suffered an indescribable change.
We talked of the prospects of the grouse and the salmon, and from his remarks he seemed to be as keen at sport as he had once made out himself to be at yachting.
There were none of those signs in the animal world outside, of premature stir and cheerful awaking, that in other lands help the illusion that winter lies behind, but there was that even more stimulating sweet air abroad, that subtle mixture of sun and yielding frost, that softened wind that comes blowing across the snow, still keen to the cheek, but subtly reviving to the sensitive nostril, and caressing to the eyes.
To ears less keen than the lad's the sound, which came from above, might have been some bird of the night flapping its wings as it soared overhead.
Lightly and dull fell each proud head, Spiked keen without avail, Till swam my uncontented blade With ichor green and pale.
He was a man of a large heart, which was terribly tempered by a very narrow understanding; generous, rather than charitable; sincere, more than expansive; tenacious, not sanguine; keen beyond measure in ecclesiastical affairs, devoted to a cause, but unresponsive to the touch and contact of humanity; hot in strife, but cold in affection.
Still, the sense of the value and the harmonies of colors was so keen among the Venetian artists, that, intuitively, subjects were chosen which required an expression admitting of the most lavish use and magnificent display of color.
And Oxenham asked him why he was so keen after it.
But here the sharp song of the yellow-hammer from the hedge, or the cry of the owl from the spinney, come pure and keen through the thin air, purged of all uncertain murmurs.
The instinct of maternity remained keen within her, though she could never be a mother.
This it did against a quadruple alliance, for the Pope, when the haughty republic of the lagoons refused to disgorge its Ferrarese prey at his orders, promptly changed sides, and was as keen against the aggressor as he had previously been favorable to it.
This body was not yours alone, but God's His loanHe needed it: and after that The worst was come, and any torture more A changea lightening; and I did not shriek Once onlyonce, when first I felt the whip It coiled so keen around my side, and sent A fire-flash through my heart which choked methen I shriekedthat once.
Lichen and moss the lone stones greened, Green paths led lightly to its door, Keen from her hair the spider leaned, And dusk to darkness wore.
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.
And then there to come days when I lay very quiet, and had no thought of aught; and the Master Doctor oft to bend over me in this hour and that hour, and to look keen into my face.
The sense of sight had become keen during those trying hours in the darkness.
To-day they are as keen over national sufferings and national wrongs as on that unfortunate clay when they went into a fiercely unwilling and resentful captivity.