His keen eyes, harder than his mother's and more metallic, met hers once and glanced easily away.
The curé, before mounting the steps, swept the road, upward and downward, with his keen glance.
Madame de Sévigné's keen sense of humor found so many things to ridicule.
But at Charm's first sentence the keen Norman eyes had fixed their twinkling glitter on the girl's face.
Two ladies pitched and rolled about, exactly as if they were peasants, and laughing as if they were children--this was a spectacle and a keen appreciation of a joke that brought joy to a rustic blouse.
And though the man kept his mouth from betraying him, his keen eyes glittered with avarice.
He appeared to be much soberer than before: perhaps the keen air had cooled him somewhat, or he might have been shamming it a little at the inn to hoodwink the doctor.
Experience had his sober hour; and Character its keen appreciation; And holy Anger stood sublime, where Hatred fell condemned.
Come, I would forewarn thee and forearm thee; for keen are the weapons of his warfare; And, while my soul hath scorned him, I have watched his skill from far.
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, But that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
There's little fear that France, whose clear keen eyes Have missed no morning in the realm of thought, Would fail to see it; and smaller need to lift A brand from hell to illume the light from heaven.
If he is a keen observer he will find no lack of material ready to his hand.
They did not take any of the eggs, which appeared to be in an advanced state for hatching; but they roasted the talegalla, and found it delicious meat, though it must be remembered appetite was keen and turkey a rarity.
The writer possesses a quick eye and a keen intelligence; is many-sided in his interests, and on certain subjects speaks as an expert.
The English merchant, who long held this field, has now to contend with the keen competition of others.
From whence is thiskeen desire to profit by the trade of the Central and South American States?
With this strain added to the blood of the old Spaniards, and the mixture fostered and nourished by the breezy hills, the result has been a being whose keen sense of dignity and honour were ever in the very active custody of knife or lance.
After this I remember only of the last 4 miles the keen race against the gathering darkness; fatigue was forgotten and we reached camp at 8.
We went out into the keen air; it was a night of early moons.
We found the wind very keen at this height, and after taking several photographs we rode back again to Phari.
Wheeler, the other Surveyor, was a member of the Canadian Alpine Club and a verykeen climber himself.
What so many keen mountaineers had for years dreamed of was within sight.
As he passed a casual glance over the foamy trail left by the Santa Maria, his keen eye detected something appearing and disappearing in the tumbling waves that captured his immediate attention.
Pungarin's keen eye quickly observed that they were making towards him, although the water around him swarmed with other men.
It was in Italy: "He was keen on seeing all the sights, so we asked him if he'd seen the macaroni plantation.
Furthermore, it permeated Judaism with a keensense of duty and imprinted the ideal of holiness upon the whole of life.
The new thought andkeen research of that period had a lasting influence upon the whole development of western culture.
Despite all his stubbornness, Stuyvesant was a man ofkeen sagacity.
The angel leader of the whites then gave the command to charge, and, with their pistols and keen swords, they flew at the enemy before they had time to recover, and they were thrown into confusion and fled in dismay.
Its bristling horns, long beard, and keen eyes were visible, though the ferns and grass concealed its body.
Ashton Sanborn's keen blue eyes twinkled as he surveyed his young guests.
Daddy asked me not to drink until I was twenty-one--and I'm not so keen on the idea, anyway.
Bill Bolton, who had shown an interest quite as keen as Dorothy's or Sanborn's.
Bianchi cast a keen glance on the old woman, and growled to himself, "So, so, I fancy we understand each other.
He was of middle size, with a keen eye, and irregular features.
His lips trembled, his heart throbbed heavily against his left arm, which grasped his cloak spasmodically; but the lids over the keen eyes winked not.
Wolf cast a keen side-long glance at him, seized his arm, and said laughing, "I really believe that you are in love with the girl and want to keep the experiment for yourself.
He let a keen passing glance rest for a moment on the noble face which looked up so frankly to his, and then approached her mother, who greeted him heartily, and bent forward in her easy-chair to shake his hand.
My first emotion was a keen regret that my parents had not sent me to a place where the sun shone.
It seemed to Eustace that he was being regarded with a keen expectancy, as though his decision I on the trivial point was of real importance.
IV My growing panic in the face of my imminent return to school spoilt my holiday, and I watched my brother's careless delight in the Surrey pine-woods with keen envy.
I had taken a keen interest in the later scientific discoveries, and Darwin had done much towards freeing me from my old bonds.
There's nothing like a good go at polo for making a chapkeen on his tuck.
She had the oddest feeling of being glad that she was tall--that there was so much of her to feel that keen flame of life that had sprung up so suddenly within her.
You're askeen on sailing as I am, my wife tells me.
But this little Jill had climbed the bean-stalk of her wits with no axe to help her--only that keen blade of her sane, fearless will and knowledge.
She was so keen to see the man that had made Sophy forget her "twagic life with poor, dear Cecil.
It was absurd, vexatious, incredible, impossible that so keen a flame should have died down into the white ash of philosophy .
She did not know that the jealousy for what has been is sometimes even more bitter if less keenthan that for what actually exists.
These pains were all the more annoying, as he had heard lately of the yearly boat-races on Lago Maggiore, and was keen on having Amaldi enter The Wind-Flower for these races.
But her eyes wavered, and the soft red ran up again into her face, as she met that young, keen look, all fierce with wounded love.
What he craved was thekeen bite of the raw brandy in his stomach and blood.
Not while I live," I answered, and went out, half wild with hope, into thekeen mountain air.
My feelings were not sokeen as I had anticipated, for they had been dulled by long suffering.
Keen of hearing as I was, I had never yet heard the footstep of Lady Alice.
And the wind, Lady Alice, was blowing through the corridor windows, keen and cold as the moonlight.
She turned her face towards the room in keen terror.
We had just reached the spot, when a keen flash of lightning broke from the cloud overhead, and my horse instantly stood stock-still, as if paralysed, with his nostrils turned up towards the peak of the mountain.
