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  • The fact that in some of the eagerest death penalty states a little more than $100 is allocated for the entire defense is a travesty in any civilized country.

    One Blank Cartridge Steve Perry 2010

  • The eagerest of Lenoir shout and wave, and Clinton waves back, but quickly he is moved into the waiting car.

    Mayhill Fowler: Clintons Tagteam North Carolina Undecideds; Little Sign Of Obama 2008

  • I went out on work crews that did road repair and I was the eagerest hand, giving myself up to the rote motions of breaking asphalt, leaky-eyed and sneezing in the ragweed brush.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I went out on work crews that did road repair and I was the eagerest hand, giving myself up to the rote motions of breaking asphalt, leaky-eyed and sneezing in the ragweed brush.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I went out on work crews that did road repair and I was the eagerest hand, giving myself up to the rote motions of breaking asphalt, leaky-eyed and sneezing in the ragweed brush.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • She herself explained, for that matter, with the loveliest, eagerest simplicity.

    The Turn of the Screw 2003

  • It engaged the seamen on the tiny trading vessels at the quay, and excited the eagerest speculation in Ludovic's inn.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • She herself explained, for that matter, with the loveliest, eagerest simplicity.

    The Turn of the Screw 1935

  • And yet something had happened—a thing which, years ago, had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town.

    Chapter 33 1918

  • And yet something had happened -- a thing which, years ago, had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

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