eagerness
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"Eagerness, excitement, anxiousness, to give this organization and the Jones family everything they invested in," Prescott said.
From Fox News • Mar. 10, 2021
Eagerness was in their faces, and confidence in their leader showed in their eyes.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Eagerness is apt to overlook Consequences, it is loth to be stopt in its Career; for when Men are in great haste, they see only in a straight Line.
From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of
Eagerness to please her shone on his face.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
Learning the cause of their sadness, because the Holy Eagerness which they had was not cooled, he provided a Piragua of his own, very capacious, with Indian rowers and Supplies necessary for all.
From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Means, Philip Ainsworth
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A Single Shard
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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