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EAGERLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With eagerness; in an eager manner
Example:
the news was eagerly awaited
Synonyms:
eagerly; thirstily
Classified under:
Pertainym:
eager (having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy)
Context examples:
The figure broke into fragments, and Holmes bent eagerly over the shattered remains.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Wait a bit!” cried Gregson eagerly.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rumour that the Prince was to be present had already spread through the clubs, and invitations were eagerly sought after.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Nay,” said he eagerly, “I would fain hear it.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I constructed another sail with a part of my dress and eagerly steered my course towards the land.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He listened eagerly, with receptive ears, lying on his back and looking up and joying in each movement of her lips as she talked.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He shook hands eagerly with Sherlock Holmes, and his dark eyes sparkled with pleasure when he understood that the specialist was anxious to hear his story.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While she stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
She proposed it to him accordingly; but he did not catch at the measure so eagerly as she had expected.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He had left them completely frightened; and Harriet eagerly clinging to him, and hardly able to speak, had just strength enough to reach Hartfield, before her spirits were quite overcome.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
