The Devil's reasonings to which a few minutes ago he had listened greedily were specious, futile, utterly false.
She crawled closer, peering at me greedily under the pale glimmer of the street lamp.
A watering-cart turned the corner, scattering a refreshing spray, and behind it came a troop of thirsty dogs, licking greedily at the water before it sank into the dust.
Illustration: Row after row of the monsters roared by, going greedily with hungry guns into battle.
Row after row after row of the monsters roared by, beaked and armed, going greedily with hungry guns into battle.
There was 'ata,' in small quantities, which the sepoy would buy greedilyas a change from his tsampa.
How greedily the gossips will partake of the dish in preparation for them!
With the acid of sea-salt Lime forms also a singular sort of salt, which greedily imbibes the moisture of the air.
He needed liberty and isolation; her eyes always greedily beseeching a look obsessed him: he used to speak harshly to her, and longed to say: "Go!
There were lonely young men, living a life of hardship, their whole being aspiring to an ideal of which they were not sure, and they came greedily to slake their thirst at the well of Christophe's brotherly spirit.
But as the day wore on, the mellow light took his soul into its arms, and, wholly forgetting all that had been, he drank greedily of the delight of seeing.
It is like a drop of water falling upon parched earth, greedily to be sucked up.
They are alone together in a lawless universe, a very chaos of love, when the confused elements know not as yet what distinguishes one from the other, and strive greedily to devour each other.
Again those prominent eyes opened and greedily drank it in, but he closed them at once, and was seized with laughter; he regularly shouted with laughter--and Edward with him.
She threw herself upon a swarm of fowls, who were greedily drinking the blood from the pans.
He fell greedily upon his bacon, and swallowed his potatoes whole instead of bread.
But the creatures just shook themselves, and then came back moregreedily than ever, surrounding her, jumping on her, and tearing open her apron.
It no longer disturbed him; he greedily watched it rocking, and hungered for the fortified powers of the vivifying sap which to him it symbolised.
As she drew the little roll of bills from her pocket, Will reached out eagerly, and, seizing it from her, counted it greedily in her presence.
All the details of her crimes were published, and greedily devoured; and the idea of secret poisoning was first put into the heads of hundreds, who afterwards became guilty of it.
Poll, greedily biting his nails in his great interest.
As these words were mysterious, Mrs Gamp called upon him to explain, which Mr Bailey proceeded to do; that lady listening greedily to everything he said.
Yes,' said Jonas, lookinggreedily over his shoulder.
They thought as little of Miss Pecksniff, while they greedily perused this letter, as if she were the very last person on earth whom it concerned.
While the child greedily munched and waited, June, grudging the wasting of time, flew skywards to investigate.
Nor will this surprise any person who reflects how easily an accidental quarrel is perpetuated by the adoption of a name or symbol, and how greedily the vulgar adopt the outward sign of faction, regardless of the principles which it indicates.
A Breton knight, whom I recognised on the instant as my cousin Yvon, was standing spent and weary by his horse's side, whilst the animal drank greedily of the water from a brook which ran hard by.
And the two shades walked on, while the soul of Ctesippus, released by sleep from its mortal envelop, flew after them, greedily absorbing the tones of the clear Socratic speech.
This whistling made my heart throb painfully, in spite of which I greedily went on eating, and in this respect the girl, walking on my left hand, kept even pace with me.
And the whole night until the morning the cypress trees hissed over his head, and the door swung to and fro, allowing the cold, greedily prowling desert to enter his dwelling.
Far from not assenting, they actually turn pale with holy awe, are full of reverence and hang greedily on the maniac's words.
It greedily sucks it in, puts its whole outlook at its disposal and begins playing with it, like a cat with a mouse.
Miss Mountainhead, who had always had a wild enthusiasm for Vivian Standish without ever being able to form his acquaintance, followed his graceful figure greedily with her calculating eyes through the crowded room to-night.
As they ran inward, all eyes were strained greedily to find some opening in the mangrove belt; but none was to be seen for some time.
Furtive little slitherings, and the sound of things drinking greedily at the water's edge, and once or twice peculiar little despairing small animal cries off in the darkness.
With one arm he swam weakly, the other trailing at his side, while he gulped greedily at the air.
It was crashing down toward them, eating greedily as it came.
Large herds of cattle were scattered over the valley, greedily cropping the fresh green herbage, which now carpets mountain and plain.
The Indians were all nearly naked, and most of them, having been wading in the water at daylight to set their seines, were shivering with the cold whilst greedilydevouring their morning meal.
It is highly probable that the bewildered soul of the young Augustinian greedily lent an ear to such ideas, and laboured to make them meet his own needs.
Concerning the third element no more need be said here, however greedily he may have seized the semblance of comfort which the discovery afforded him, passing from the storms of his crisis into what he took to be a safe haven of peace.
Thus the tendency to a false separation of natural and supernatural commended itself to him; he greedily seized upon the ideas of Nominalism with regard to imputation after he had commenced groping about for a new system of theology.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greedily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
