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  • Eagerness for stage work seems an unsatisfactory explanation for that chilly month Virginia spent toiling in rep.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • Pickiness and Eagerness To be sure, acceptance to these programs can be competitive.

    Class Action 2009

  • Eagerness pumped away till I got to the yellow-greenish kind of makeshift booth where I was greeted by this affable, smiling mustachioed Mexican.

    FM3 and Car Permit 2007

  • Eagerness, or rather Distraction, of youthful Eyes instigated by a tender

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Eagerness, or rather Distraction, of youthful Eyes instigated by a tender

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Eagerness to please being one of those qualities that gets promotions.

    25 « October « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • And, on the other Side, he rewards with such Alacrity, or rather Eagerness, as if he desir'd to recompence both the Virtue and the Person, if they were distinct; by one he avoids making any Body his Enemy, and by the other he makes every Body his

    Exilius 2008

  • Eagerness to please being one of those qualities that gets promotions.

    Victoria sought to delay TransLink fees debate « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • Eagerness to rebuild the town's economy was the prime mover.

    Alpine Pharaoh 2007

  • You may imagine the Eagerness with which I anticipated bandying Pleasantries and perhaps a Reminiscence or two with One who, although not without Controversy and Contention, entertain'd, and yet gave much Occasion for sombre Reflection to those with Wit enough to perceive his Points.

    Did yesterday's hostage crisis teach us anything about Hillary Clinton? Ann Althouse 2007

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