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, anxiety, and even fear came into it in turn, but always mingling with some scorn that dominated her.

From The Three Partners by Harte, Bret

His breaking from his Friends with that Vehemency of Passion in an Eagerness of Desire to hear what his Father could say to him, is another Proof of his Filial Tenderness.

From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) by Anonymous

But a Fool hath an Eagerness, like a Monkey in a Glass Shop, to break every thing in the handling.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of

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