Bruce had at last regained a footing--though but a precarious footing--in his kingdom, and rendered Edward anxious about the immediate future.
To do the Pope justice, he had been anxious to keep clear of the difficulties obviously involved in the reservation of Bruce's royal title.
King Robert was sincerely anxious to set himself and his people right with the Church.
But for Bruce's anxious care to keep his men in hand in case of a rally, it seems quite certain that Edward would not have escaped at all.
He was intensely anxious for peace, and, if he did not give Robert the royal title, Robert would not look at his letters any more than he had done before.
The weary have life, and the hungry have bliss; The mourner is cheered, and the anxious have rest; And the guilt-burthened soul is no longer opprest.
Ten minutes more of anxious waiting, and then a surprise was in store for everybody.
Restlessly pacing to and fro, the Mirror representative kept an anxious eye on it.
Besides, I am very deeply anxious to see more of the country.
I don't know as much about the French hospitals as my friends do, but of course everybody is anxious to do whatever is possible for the Allied soldiers.
Having completed her work downstairs, Sally Ashton had hurried up to her bedroom where at present she was making little nervous preparations as if intending to go outdoors and anxious not to be observed.
She also had grown thinner and her big golden brown eyes had lost their sleepy expression and acquired an anxious appeal.
Quickly regaining her composure, she threw her game over her back, in the Indian woman's style of carrying loads; and with the natural Indian womanly modesty seemed anxious to at once go on.
He did all this himself, and seemed even anxious to save her from fatigue and toil.
As he studied them more and more, the more importunate and anxious he became to have the missionary of this station go and visit his people, and thus prepare the way for their own missionary when he should come to live among them.
They all rejoiced to hear that she still treasured in her breast so much of the truth and was so anxious for a missionary.
So curbing all curiosity he finished his breakfast and put on his apparel, and strange to say, seemedanxious to be as presentable as possible.
These two women, she said, were anxious to go with her.
Seeing his intense longing to go sweeping through the gates of the celestial city, I said to him: "Memotas, my brother beloved, why are you so anxious to leave us?
By the time the story was ended, which she told with many an anxious detail, they had passed on by the house and reached the spring.
He was just as anxious to catch up with those men, just as determined to mete out to them the punishment they deserved, but the wild feeling of passion was gone.
This security will fall due to-morrow and I am anxious to get it renewed.
From time to time he glanced at the noisy little clock on the mantel-piece as if anxious he should not forget some important appointment.
He is anxious to come here--the thing is preposterous.
On the contrary, I am anxious to hear Mr. Russell's story.
I dare say this will cost money, but I am anxious to keep up the credit of Flower's name and you know there have been strange rumours about him in the City lately.
Neither was he the less anxious to find out for himself, because a shrewd idea had come into his mind and he resolved to put it to the test.
She came down to breakfast strengthened and refreshed, and yet anxious to be away from the house when the blow fell.
You may depend on it, the poem and prefaces will take up exactly the number of pages I mentioned, and I am extremely anxiousto have the work as perfect as possible, and which I cannot do, if it be finished immediately.
Him who lured thee and forsook, Oft I watch'd with angry gaze, Fearful saw his pleading look, Anxious heard his fervid phrase.
John May is anxious for a full life of John Henderson.
I need not say, dear Wedgewood, howanxious I am to hear the particulars of your health and spirits.
I shall be anxious to hear how you have gone on since I left you.
My part was zealously and cheerfully discharged, with the encouraging hope that it would essentially serve my anxious and valued friend.
It was then recollected by some of his anxious and importunate friends, that Bath was near, and that a good judge of requisite qualifications was to be found therein in the person of the Rev.
I am anxious that it should reach a second edition, that I may write a new preface, and enlarge the last book.
Once before that doctor had stood by 'Lina's bedside, and felt her feverish pulse, but his face then was not as anxious as now.
Richards, thank you," Alice said, as the black kid was found, and passed to its anxious owner.
His family were ready, were anxiousto receive her.
How anxious the doctor was to have Alice go; how fearful lest she should not; and how relieved when asked by 'Lina one night to go with her the next morning and see Miss Johnson off.
The rider kept on his way, reining his panting steed at last before the door of Spring Bank, and casting about him anxious glances as he sprang up the steps.
What did Hugh think Mosside worth, and who would probably be most anxious to secure it?
We are anxious to get our men back, and have made every effort to do so, but it refuses to meet us on any reasonable grounds.
He told me to come there the next morning, after roll-call, and he would take me to see some person who was very anxious to meet me.
We were all exceedinglyanxious to know how the Atlanta campaign had ended.
I am expecting a messenger here every moment, with the description of all the officers attached to Fremont, and among them is a captain belonging to the cadets, whom I am anxious to meet.
Seemingly satisfied with this reply, the gentleman went on to say that he had been very anxious to know what had become of his letter, and had therefore consulted a clairvoyant.
A more excited and anxious group of faces, I am sure was never seen in a council of war on the eve of a great and decisive battle.
The Agent readily agreed to this, for he was somewhat anxious to make sure of Howard; and he now resolved that the latter should be present at the interview.
The anxious audience at once jumped at the conclusion, as I had intended they should, that I was in pursuit of a horse-thief, which impression I took care to strengthen by sundry incidental remarks.
Failing to find them, seeing her anxious face, a young Italian came up to her, and politely offered to assist her.
She said, "My most anxious wish is, that I may not hinder my spiritual welfare, which I have so much feared as to make me often doubt if marriage were a desirable thing for me at this time, or even the thoughts of it.
If she were engaged in conversation, her body was usually bent forward with eager, anxious desire to get as close as possible to the person with whom she talked.
Naturally anxious to test the world's opinion of her work, she sent some water-colors to the Society of British Artists for exhibition, and they were rejected.
The anxious painter would try his child once more in school; so he arranged that she should attend, with compensation met in the same way as for his boys.
When these at length arrive, he is anxious to harvest many acres at once, since his Grain is wasting and he knows not how soon cloud and tempest may again be his portion.
He looked anxious and when Swatty looked anxious it was time to be frightened.
At the sight of Rip’s flushed, anxious face he dropped the machine.
He was anxiousto get out of the hospital and back to Terra.
The Planeteers rounded up the prisoners and secured them while Rip took an anxious look at the communicator.
I'm anxiousto get Sunny Boy started in school," answered Mrs. Horton thoughtfully.
The four children hung over the rail, pulled back now and then by an anxious mother, during the short sail.
I'm anxious to see you in school and having a little less excitement.
Yes, he was well, he said when she asked him; nevertheless, her anxious eye read the old signs.
Her servants' wages began to get in arrear, and Dolly herself consequently into anxious perplexity.
Mrs. Copley was sitting with an anxious and perplexed face watching her husband; he had crept to the empty fireplace and was leaning towards it as towards a place whence comfort ought to be looked for.
She too was longing for her father, with a craving, anxious longing that was more full of fear than of hope.
Here she begged Dolly to rest herself on the sofa; and while Dolly did so she stood considering her with a kindly, anxious face.
He made anxious enquiries; and at last received an account of the last half-hour.
Dolly did not say, Do; she did not say anything; she stood pondering and anxious by the window.
She saw a troubled, anxious face, lines of nervous unrest; she saw that her father's coming had not brought refreshment or relief; and truly she did not perceive why it should.
Every misfortune was exaggerated in dark and doubtful hints; and the future designs of the rebels became the subject of anxious conjecture.
This advantageous situation was fortified by art and labor; and in the twentieth year of his age, the emperor of the West, anxious only for his personal safety, retired to the perpetual confinement of the walls and morasses of Ravenna.
Whenever the rich prepare a solemn and popular entertainment; whenever they celebrate, with profuse and pernicious luxury, their private banquets; the choice of the guests is the subject of anxious deliberation.
The impatient crowd rushed at the dawn of day to secure their places, and there were many who passed a sleepless and anxious night in the adjacent porticos.
In this moment of anxious doubt, while the fate of the Roman world depended on the resolution of a single man, the charms of the princess Galla most powerfully pleaded the cause of her brother Valentinian.
With great propriety, therefore, may the parent feel anxious in regard to his unconverted children.
The following Sunday was appointed to receive the collection, and all seemed animated with a generous feeling, and anxious to do what they could.
Let the dear parents think of them as already far surpassing their own best attainments, and praising the blessed Savior, in the heavenly paradise, and turn their more anxious and diligent thoughts to the living.
How the sunset faded to twilight, and the dimness gave place to the light of the rising moon, long before we reached the door, where anxious Aunt Rose was watching for us!
It was the anxious prayer, and assiduous labor of his pious mother that all this might be crowned with the saving knowledge of Christ as his Redeemer.
He remembered the first meeting thereafter, when his associates, with grave, anxious faces, debated the proper stand for them to take.
He paused, revolving his words, anxious not to hurt, yet deeming it incumbent upon him to expel this foolish fancy.
He was stretching out his hand to her, but with a little anxious frown she signaled to him to take no notice of her at present.
This is so bewildering that we feel as if we were in a labyrinth, and huddle close up to the guide anxious not to lose sight of him for a moment.
His faith is justified, for he gets it back directly he lands, and then the children dance round the two lucky ones, singing and making such a noise that a troop of anxious parents hurry down to find out what is the matter.
Darkness falls very quickly here, and it is dark before we get on board, but in answer to our anxiousquestions we find no one has seen anything of you.
Meantime I am getting a little anxious about my boots.
He has indeed been anxious to pull them up all round the compartment ever since we started, and nothing but physical force has restrained him, for he cannot conceive how anyone could want to look out.
Everyone follows suit, and soon anxious voices can be heard asking, "How many got in with you?
It was very dark there in that jungle, and for the first time I thought of you and how anxious you and Joyce's mother would be.
But why should I be so anxious and disturbed, if it were not our Lord speaking and warning me?
The old nun came across to Hubert with her anxious sweet face; and put her old hand tenderly on his black satin sleeve as he sat and wrenched at a nut between his fingers.
She was tall and slender and middle-aged, with a somewhat anxious face; but a look of great relief came over it as she saw Anthony.
From the depths of the gully, in another of its bends nearby, the sound of an anxious girl's voice floated upward.
We must get back," the Very Young Man answered in an anxious whisper.
The Very Young Man laid his hand on Aura's arm, and she met his anxious glance with her fearless, trusting smile.
The Big Business Man stood behind him; the Very Young Man met hisanxious glance.
He met the Banker's anxious glance, and smiled up at him.
