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Eager

adjective

Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy. "Eager to travel abroad" , "Eager for success" , "Eager helpers" , "An eager look"

noun

A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary). Synonyms: aegir, bore, eagre, tidal bore.

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... too started at an eager, restless pace for the centre of the crowd. He had quite forgotten the future so carefully arranged for him, and was off in hot pursuit of—what? He did not know! He only knew that he had heard a ...

— One Day - A sequel to 'Three Weeks' • Anonymous

... Eager for battle here Stood Vulcan, here matronal Juno, And with the bow to his shoulder faithful He who with pure dew laveth of Castaly His flowing locks, who holdeth of Lycia The oak forest and the wood that bore him, Delos and ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various

... child," said Major White, kindly; "I'll treat him like a prince, and if you ever want to buy him back, you shall have him." Tom managed to falter, "Thank you," and almost flew out of hearing of Tiger's eager scratching on ...

— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous

... no nation ever successfully and permanently resisted; and thus the reception of the cult on the part of the state was not only a disgraceful thing, tending to degrade true religion and spread the contagion of Orientalism, but it also made those whose appetite had been aroused eager for other deities, whose cult would have the great additional charm of being unlicensed by the state, ...

— The Religion of Numa - And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome • Jesse Benedict Carter

... everything with rapid, eager interest. "I have heard all about the powder," she said. "It's quite true, isn't it? You have done what you ...

— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges

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