Her dinners and her entertainments were admittedly the finest in London; and invitations to them were as eagerly sought as commands to a Court-ball.
Eagerly responsive to such a welcome suggestion the entire household repaired to the fair, except the hostess (Mrs Owen) and a lady guest; and with them as companions Amy Robsart spent a quiet and peaceful day.
Poetry sold in those days: society was greedy for novelties and, when anything new was offered it, eagerly put its lips to the cup.
So the English artistes found Parisian playgoers warmly enthusiastic, eagerly demanding new emotions to take the place of those they had just experienced.
Semestre turned her wrinkled face towards the old man, opened her eyes to their widest extent, and then called eagerly to Dorippe, who was busied about the hearth, "We want to be alone!
For weeks both enjoyed the successful toy, but he did not ask a word of thanks, nor did she utter any, only eagerly showed her pleasure, and that was enough for Phaon.
From that time she claimed his services aseagerly as before, but in her own heart felt as if she were his little mother, and watched all his actions as though specially commissioned to do so.
The Colonel sat up eagerly in his chair, then brought his knuckles down smartly on the table.
About noon we halted eagerly at a short distance from an Arab village and well, where all were glad of a drink of fresh water.
And there was a friend to share his pleasure: a Turk dressed in scarlet, and covered all over with daggers and pistols, sat leaning forward on his little stool, rocking about, and grinning quite as eagerly as the black minstrel.
Captain Cuttle tells me, Miss Dombey,' he eagerly began on coming in--but stopped when he saw her face.
The eyes that turned so eagerly and brightly to the door when Harriet came in; the feeble head that could not raise itself, and moved so slowly round upon its pillow!
As he bent his head down, the person for whose information he so unconsciously laboured, moved from the door behind him to within a short stride of his shoulder, and looked eagerly towards the creeping track of his hand upon the table.
His father had gone to Georgetown, but Sam was there, and to him Tom eagerly narrated what he thought his good fortune.
Tom was immensely interested in these narrations, and was eagerlylistening when his father came in to find him.
A hundred pounds of the seeds yield forty pounds of oil, and the pressed residue forms a wholesome food for cattle, as also do the leaves and the green stalks, cut up small, all being eagerly eaten.
Ranna eagerly pointed out the exact spot from which she had taken the nest, and when Will had carefully restored it, watched with great delight the old birds return to it.
She would be able to watch over him just when he needed her motherly care; she looked forward eagerly to Augustine's return.
She wanted to know, to understand; she listened eagerly to Monica's explanations.
Parting the curtains, she stepped out from between them, looking about her eagerly for a key to the riddle.
Expectation became desire; she waited eagerly for him to strike the blow; knowing, before it came, that it was coming.
Once in a while she wrote to Miss Browne; once or twice she had eagerly said she was 'all but engaged,' but later letters never confirmed the hope, and now a dull commonplace had settled down over the correspondence.
Cameron and Bartie and Hermie went eagerly off to the agent's again.
To her amaze her employer turned eagerly round, shook her hand again and again in warmest gratitude, and fell to painting once more with feverish haste.
This while she and her own family, their eyes turned eagerly to a glowing future, sailed thankfully away from all the misery and monotony of the past.
Hermie and Bartie hung over his shoulder, reading just as eagerly as he.
Eagerly he rummaged the pockets; but what should he find?
They roused up suddenly enough at the news that they were reaching their new home; and thrust their heads to the windows, eagerly asking on which side they were to look for their garden.
Very much, thank you," added Janet, a little more politely but still just as eagerly as her brother.
The children always eagerly waited for the colored waiter to come through the coaches rumbling out in his bass voice: "First call fo' supper in de dinin'-car!
Janet, as the pony eagerly sucked up from her hat the water in it.
Twelve o'clock found him leaning over the gate and looking eagerly in the direction of the schoolhouse.
She straightened up and eagerly began reading the advertisement.
Chunk sat Turk-fashion on the ground and fell to as if famished, meanwhile listening eagerly to the girl's account of what had happened during his absence.
Had they not that very day sought to override the will, the conscience, the whole shrinking, protesting womanhood of the one who had listened so eagerly as the wrong meditated against her was explained?
He and Cumnor left their gambols and eagerly approached, while Mr. Jack Long, seeing the interview, came up also to hear it.
You can fill your two canteens and carry the olla for us," she pursued, arrivingeagerly beside him, her face lifted to her strong, tall lover.
Young Schoener was well known to her; she had often seen and spoken to him in a friend's house, and as he strove very eagerly to gain her good-will, she had not remained perfectly indifferent to him.
There was one long counter covered with samovars, and we began eagerly to examine and price them.
Whenever we approached a bend in the river, they stood in the bow of the boat, eagerly staring ahead; but not until the fourth day did the cry of "Sarah" ring through our steamer.
It was here that the summer hats and the red kimonos and the pretty collars were brought out, and were eagerly seized by the dark and really handsome Indian girls.
She talked rapidly and eagerly upon every subject save the one in which we were so interested.
Then he ran over all the floor till he saw the grain which had rolled to the fountain edge, and rushed eagerly to pick it up when behold, it sprang into the midst of the water and became a fish and dived to the bottom of the basin.
Boats were lowered, and the crews of cut-throat Chilenos and Peruvians swarmed eagerly into them, and then waited for the signal to cast off.
Not many minutes passed before the hardy mariners were on shore, and eagerly observing the conditions of their new-discovered realm.
Other leaders were eagerly preparing to obtain commissions and raise men for the expedition.
Many of the savages knew him, and he was eagerly questioned as to what had happened.
Hugh eagerly devoured its contents, for it was the first communication he had had from her since that fateful night at Monte Carlo.
Time after time, he walked to the window and looked out eagerly for her to cross the courtyard.
Almost eagerly Black Roger leaned toward him over the table.
Black Roger's discretion had failed him there, and eagerly David pulled the head down from the wall.
