The desire for the "consolations of religion" grows keener and keener as the air grows closer and closer.
As long as some birds possessed a rather keener sight than those which previously existed, so long would those butterflies possess an advantage in which the resemblance to leaf-veining was more distinct than in others.
On the other hand, a bird with rather keener sight will have the greatest chance of catching the better protected butterflies.
It was Sir John, whose eyes followed his favorite with keener and keener appreciation and admiration; it was Mrs. Clavering; it was also most of the girls themselves, for beyond doubt Kitty was the favorite.
NEW YORK WORLD: "Pretty as are the heroines, gallant as Captain Bell proves himself, the reader comes back with even keener zest to the imperturbable D'ri.
Her wit grew more sparkling, her graceful sarcasm keener than ever it had been.
But this only awoke a keener distress in the junior Gale.
Keener eyes among the trees picked out Torrance's running bulk, but their eyes were keener than their aim.
To these terms the king consented; but Queen Elizabeth, with keener insight, refused altogether to trust this new Councillor; and Henry thereupon devoted his whole energies to making mischief between the king and queen.
The terrier is never keener than when he hits on such a line.
The call of "Taps" through the dead of night, the final rifle volleys, brought the keener anguish at the thought that our first loss at the enemy's hands had been a comrade with whom we would have parted last.
A person with a keener eye would have said his face looked greedy, and even Shelton was surprised, as though he had read in the Spectator a confession of commercialism.
With a man's keener sense of family propriety, he could not see that this baby would be the same as any other baby.
A little red had come into his brown cheeks; his eyes under their half-drawn lids had a keener light; his lips were tightly closed; he looked as he did when a fox was breaking cover.
If they would study the history and enter into the spirit of their own fraternities, they would often have keener and broader ideas of honor to which they are happily so sensitive.
Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
This came home to men on the threshold of life with a keener and closer touch than questions about doctrine.
Intellectually, the same enthusiasm for classical studies, the same artistic energy, and the same impulse to revive Italian literature brought the several centers of the nation into keener sympathy than they had felt before.
However, I am bound to be in Lisbon by the end of next month, and I'm keener than ever on having you two with me.
Brilliana gave a gracious equality of attention to her companions; showed no keener interest in her new visitor than she had found in the conversation of her old acquaintance, and thus made both men very happily at their ease.
As he led the way by stair and corridor, his mood for quarrel grew the keener that he knew his choler could find no hope of ventage with a prisoner committed to his care.
Perhaps it would have cheered him though, to know that another’s sufferings were even keener than his own, lying broad awake behind him there at Holyrood, pressing a pale cheek against a pillow wet with tears.
But we must leave such visions to younger and keener eyesights, satisfied to take for granted the radiance of the Maries from the admiration they excited, and the compliments that were paid them by all.
But Fox, in spite of his own bodily hunger and physical weariness, discerned that the spirit of the man before him knew the cravings of a yet keener need: was fainting under the weight of a yet heavier load.
Like the villici, they were a product, of the tendency to live away from the estate; but they gained ground at the expense of the servile bailiffs, probably in consequence of their greater trustworthiness and keener interest in the soil.
Criticism may be met and faced, and, the keener it is, the more it shows the interest of the critics in their leader.
The challenge to our seafaring we met by skill and hardihood--keener and more polished arms than the weapons of our sea-fathers.
Fear for the loss of important information has spurred us tokeener appreciation.
But if he mocks no longer, it is because he has been met with mockery, swifter and keener than his own, and for a moment has been bitterly schooled into that silence which should seal for ever his uncouth distorted lips.
A partial thaw is generally followed by keener frost than before.
These four eager faces looked down through the broken roof, when they had succeeded in dropping the bed right at Christ's feet, with a farkeener pleasure than if they had just carried him in by the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keener" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
