fain

• How fain were they now in upper air to endure their poverty and [438-472]sore travail! —  The Aeneid of Virgil
• The vikings had given them up for lost, and fain were their folk when they came back with victory and wealth In this voyage the brothers got great renown: and late in the summer, when winter was coming on, they made up their minds to steer for Norway. —  Kormáks saga. English
• The mountain girls were pretty and fain, and matches were early made. —  The Long Roll
• The possessor of the assignats was fain, at last, to adopt Madame Souday's iterated counsel, and placed 120 paper francs before the owner of Cocotte. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
• Of the beer-skinkers one 1240 Who fain was and fey bow'd adown to his floor-rest At their heads then they rested their rounds of the battle Their board-woods bright-shining. —  The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

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