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  • Meg was sure it was not only imagination that made her feel that behind Mr. Jenkins' surface concern was a gleam of avid curiosity.†   (source)
  • Her family had owned horses, and she had been an avid equestrienne, which I suppose she thought prepared her for farm life.†   (source)
  • * The boy rode along through the desert for several hours, listening avidly to what his heart had to say.†   (source)
  • Dr. Pierce—an avid surfer himself who knew me well through our sport and also our churchlater told me he had a premonition that it was me.†   (source)
  • It may interest you to know that one of your avid readers was Mrs. Elizabeth Bowen.†   (source)
  • There are several girls I watch avidly at school, a grade or two above me, whose well-to-do parents take them to the Twin Cities to buy clothes.†   (source)
  • For about three minutes I got really excited, like I was close to a breakthrough, and then two things became apparent: first, that Ralph Waldo Emerson had lived and died in the 1800s and therefore could not have written any letters dated September third, 1940, and, second, that his writing was so dense and arcane that it couldn't possibly have held the slightest interest for my grandfather, who wasn't exactly an avid reader.†   (source)
  • Only human servers were present—a concession to Levana's avid distrust of androids.†   (source)
  • Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly.†   (source)
  • All wait, avidly.†   (source)
  • Hall had for some years been an avid hill walker; about the same time he went to work for Alp Sports, he took up rock and ice climbing as well.†   (source)
  • Martin Silenus seemed the most avid and expectant of the listeners as he leaned forward and whispered: "He seyde, "Syn I shal bigynne the game, What, welcome be the cut, a Goddes name!†   (source)
  • To explain the print's permanence, detectives theorized that Holmes, known to have an avid interest in chemistry, had first poured a sheen of acid onto the floor to hasten by chemical reaction the consumption of oxygen in the vault.†   (source)
  • For an English professor, and for any avid reader, having a blithely ignorant (and only recently clued-in) husband narrate the saga of his wife's longtime infidelity is about as good as it gets.†   (source)
  • He listened avidly for any mention of Rawlings, Pennsylvania.†   (source)
  • The specifics of the prayer were always different, for Father—who loved science—was an avid reader of a dozen university journals.†   (source)
  • And their success led many others to aim marketing efforts at kids, turning America's youngest consumers into a demographic group that is now avidly studied, analyzed, and targeted by the world's largest corporations. waft and ray†   (source)
  • Soon enough, however, he was looking at the typewriter again with avid repulsed fascination, not even aware of just when his gaze had shifted.†   (source)
  • At the end of the interview, Sharon took both my hands in hers—cool, a bit calloused, I'd read she was an avid golfer—and wished me well.†   (source)
  • His body was bony and erect, his skin dark and clean-shaven, his eyes avid behind round spectacles in silver frames, and he wore a romantic, old-fashioned mustache with waxed tips.†   (source)
  • It came to Feyd-Rautha then that the packed ranks of faces would look just as avidly at his blood as at that of the slave-gladiator.†   (source)
  • There's a full complement of night courses for me, and the forests are very conveniently located for the avid hiker.†   (source)
  • It broke into three equal parts, sending her tumbling, tumbling into that open, avid mouth.†   (source)
  • There had been a small neat woman with very red lips who clung to him avidly when we first arrived.†   (source)
  • I was ushered into a conference room and introductions were made, and on each of their faces, I could read an avid curiosity as they wondered how Ruth and I—a haberdasher and a schoolteacher—had managed to accumulate such an extensive private modern art collection.†   (source)
  • Fellow teachers remember Ed McCabe as a committed teacher who was always willing to go the extra mile to help a student, and as an avid outdoorsman who talked often in the faculty room about his dreams to hike through Alaska.†   (source)
  • But all the exits were barred—were barred by avid men; the role he played was necessary, and not only to himself.†   (source)
  • From his studies, Eragon learned much about the elves, a subject that he avidly pursued, hoping that it would help him to better understand Arya.†   (source)
  • Mavens, according to Price, are the kinds of people who are avid readers of Consumer Reports.†   (source)
  • Her bonnet was pushed far back; the wind ruffled the bright hair about her forehead; the wonder and glory and delight of it all made her deep eyes shine with a child's curiosity and avid wishfulness.†   (source)
  • But it quickly came back to her and she played avidly, even laughing once when she won a hand.†   (source)
  • He was an avid follower of Frenchy Hawley's methods.†   (source)
  • The next day the Browns and I walked the convention center floor with Rick, who introduced us to Ted Nugent, an avid supporter of the military who had just seen the debut of The Adam Brown Story.†   (source)
  • Olive ate steadily, but Hattie put her fork down every so often to pat her mouth daintily with her napkin Then she'd tuck in again, as avidly as ever.†   (source)
  • The boy was resting on his elbow, his face cradled in his right palm; and his avid expression was incongruous with the redness of his eyes.†   (source)
  • There was a huge, giddy crowd of men who were avid for any diversion, but the cat turned chicken the moment Yossarian released him and fled from Hungry Joe ignominiously like a yellow dog.†   (source)
  • I used to read those lists avidly, and to this day, if I buy something from a shop that's a bit uncool, I cut the label out.†   (source)
  • My oldest son is an avid skater and he's really gifted for a thirteen-year-old, but there's a lot of pressure on him.†   (source)
  • He avidly collected books, to the point where he had assembled one of the finest libraries in the world.†   (source)
  • Miss Bradford raised a hand to her brow, ostentatiously feigning a faintness that her avid eyes belied.†   (source)
  • I was an avid reader of Time magazine, which, besides the day-old Baltimore Sun, was our porthole on the world in those days, so although psychiatry was not yet a popular pastime, I was quite aware of the word, if not the fact that the p was silent.†   (source)
  • Asmodeus watched as they spoke, avidly, almost hungrily, and Clary remembered that demons fed on human emotions—fear and joy and love and pain.†   (source)
  • Although he had no visible eyes, the smee was avidly following the action at a roulette wheel via a mirror angled above the table.†   (source)
  • Tyrion could feel their cold dead eyes watching this mummer's face, as avid as the crew of the Selaesori Qhoran.†   (source)
  • He had never met a fan before, and Billy was such an avid fan.†   (source)
  • Oswald is an avid newspaper reader and has known for quite some time that John Kennedy is coming to Dallas.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she said avidly.†   (source)
  • She never ceased being the most avid reader, and I knew she was truly gone from the house when I got home that night weeks earlier and found the stacks removed, the shelves emptied save those books from her childhood, the ones I'd read to her when she first arrived, nursery and bedtime stories in a language she didn't know.†   (source)
  • The concierge had taken one; he was reading it avidly; poking a toothpick between his teeth, oblivious to everything but the latest scandal.†   (source)
  • My fiancee is an avid gardener.†   (source)
  • She stared avidly into space, as nightmare-recallers do.†   (source)
  • Many major leaguers are avid hunters.†   (source)
  • Avidly, though.†   (source)
  • I'm an avid reader.†   (source)
  • And this was the role of an obsessed and poisonous anti-Semite—a passionate, avid, tediously single-minded hater of Jews.†   (source)
  • I don't remember that any secrets were revealed to me, nor do I remember any avid curiosity on my part to learn something I wasn't supposed to—perhaps I was too young to know what to listen for.†   (source)
  • I have found many Readers more interested in what I wear than in what I think, more avid to know how I do it than in what I do.†   (source)
  • An avid fisherman, he knew the waters around the off-lying islands extremely well.†   (source)
  • He realized that he was a pygmy before the monstrous machine of the future; he was anxious about this future, and loved it and was secretly proud of it, and as though for the last time, as if in farewell, he avidly looked at the trees and clouds and the people walking in the streets, the great Russian city struggling through misfortune-and was ready to sacrifice himself for the general good, and could do nothing.†   (source)
  • He leafed them through avidly.†   (source)
  • Study came to him naturally; he wrote and read as I had once done, avidly, with pleasure.†   (source)
  • Rod saw that "Aunt" Nora was eyeing him avidly: "But it was a fakesort of."†   (source)
  • A poor, emaciated, dried-up Jew questioned him avidly in a trembling voice: "But … but, Blockaelteste, they did write me down!"   (source)
  • He glanced at the people surrounding Lupin; they were still gazing avidly at him.†   (source)
  • Disregarding this completely, he stared avidly at Harry.†   (source)
  • —leaning avidly toward them—and of all the ten she could not say a single one.†   (source)
  • Behind her he saw many of the students watching them avidly.†   (source)
  • 'Cho?' said Rita at once, twisting round in her seat to stare avidly at Harry.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger drowsed and awoke to see the man in black regarding him avidly, unhealthily.†   (source)
  • Whatever he'd meant to say slid away as her mouth came back, avidly, to his.†   (source)
  • Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning.†   (source)
  • His eyes avidly brought the room into focus.†   (source)
  • Scrimgeour, Ron, and Hermione continued to gaze avidly at the now partially concealed ball, as if still hoping it might transform in some way.†   (source)
  • Er — no, thanks, Colin," said Harry, who wasn't in the mood to have a lot of people staring avidly at the scar on his forehead.†   (source)
  • ') He closed his eyes, the sportscaster's voice fading as he listened avidly to the minute rattle of the pin in the lock.†   (source)
  • They stared avidly from Harry to Professor Umbridge, who had raised her eyes and was staring at him without a trace of a fake smile on her face.†   (source)
  • Kreacher seemed to be in a better mood on his reappearance, his bitter muttering had subsided somewhat and he submitted to orders more docilely than usual, though once or twice Harry caught the houseelf staring at him avidly, but always looking quickly away whenever he saw that Harry had noticed.†   (source)
  • Brian found yet another golf tournament and spent the afternoon watching it avidly, making comments to no one in particular whenever something caught his interest.†   (source)
  • He read it standing up, avidly but without anxiety, and at the third page he stopped and examined Aureliano with a look of second recognition.†   (source)
  • Sitting at the old desk in my room at Charlie's house with gray light glowing dully through the window, staring at my ancient, wheezing computer, reading avidly through a web-site called "Vampires A–Z." It had been less than twenty-four hours since Jacob Black, trying to entertain me with the Quileute legends he didn't believe in yet, had told me that Edward was a vampire.†   (source)
  • He read avidly until late at night, although from the manner in which he referred to his reading, Gaston thought that he did not buy the books in order to learn but to verify the truth of his knowledge, and that none of them interested him more than the parchments, to which he dedicated most ofhis time in the morning.†   (source)
  • Neither man quite understood the power of that mental culture which Johnnie was assimilating so avidly.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Glass sat slightly and avidly forward, and said, "Well, Lane says it all has to do—this entire thing—with that little book she's got with her all the time.†   (source)
  • Milo inquired with keen interest, his rust-colored eyebrows arching avidly and his nostrils sniffing.†   (source)
  • Since he was a Polack and at the same time an academic, his overly anxious, beaming, avidly suppliant face was hardly more welcome around Gestapo headquarters than that of a typhoid carrier, but the Professor clearly did not know how far he was behind the times.†   (source)
  • …he had worked for years on such McGraw-Hill publications as Foam Rubber Monthly, World of Prosthetics, Pesticide News and American Strip Miner until, at fifty-five or so, he had been pastured out to the gentler, less hectically industrial surroundings of the trade-book branch, where he marked time in his office sucking on a pipe, reading Yeats and Gerard Manley Hopkins, skimming my reports with a tolerant glance and, I think, avidly contemplating early retirement to Ozone Park.†   (source)
  • The warning track, as it was called by Peter Solomon, an avid baseball fan.†   (source)
  • Those invited had crammed themselves into the house, deferential, lugubrious, avid with curiosity.†   (source)
  • She had seen him at the nightfires, watching, his lips parted and his eyes avid.†   (source)
  • Didn't it matter which poor, avid life took the gaze and which gave it?†   (source)
  • He liked to imagine that if he hadn't been a minor, and she his teacher and subject to abuse charges, she'd have been gnawing her way through his bedroom walls to sink her avid fingers into his youthful flesh.†   (source)
  • To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out, while he himself puts them on, like a sock over a foot, onto the stubof himself, his extra, sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye, which extrudes, expands, winces, and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again, bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf, into them, avid for vision.†   (source)
  • Burnham became an avid player of bridge, though he was known widely for being utterly inept at the game.†   (source)
  • He sounded avid.†   (source)
  • He was an avid pilot, and the new legislation also provided tax deductions for ConAgra's corporate jets.†   (source)
  • He did so without valid reasons, but only because his avid observations of the three women had persuaded him to accept as truth the profound hope that his sudden lover was in fact the mother of the caged infant.†   (source)
  • But Pittman never overtly made such a claim herself; indeed, she emphasized in an article for Men's Journal that she wanted Breashears, Lowe, Swenson, and Blanchard "to understand that I didn't confuse my avid-hobbyist abilities with their world- class skill."†   (source)
  • MARY WARREN, glancing about at the avid faces: Why—I made it in the court, sir, and—give it to Goody Proctor tonight.†   (source)
  • Dogs and cats stake their claims, avid couples sneak in among the trees, though less than they used to — there are so many other options now Drunks sleep under the denser bushes in summer, and teenaged kids sometimes go there to smoke and sniff whatever they smoke and sniff.†   (source)
  • He was also an avid reader of the latest books that his bookseller in Paris mailed to him, or the ones from Barcelona that his local bookseller ordered for him, although he did not follow Spanish literature as closely as French.†   (source)
  • He was a different person: the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush--this man went out on the street in the midst of ecstatic signed letters, gallant gifts, imprudent vigils at the pigeonkeeper's house, even on two occasions when her husband was not on a trip or at the market.†   (source)
  • Lupin and Wormtail remained sitting: Lupin was still staring down at his book, though his eyes were not moving and a faint frown line had appeared between his eyebrows; Wormtail was looking from Sirius and James to Snape with a look of avid anticipation on his face.†   (source)
  • When not admiring her pine tree from her deck or out her kitchen window, Kamps is an avid knitter and reader.†   (source)
  • Their pink cheeks and group sniggering, their good-girl and bad-girl categories, their avid, fumbling attempts to push back the frontiers of garter belt and brassiere no longer hold my attention.†   (source)
  • He is also an avid hunter, which gives him a full complement of the outdoor skills that Booth now requires to escape, the additional ability to improvise in dangerous situations, and an instinctive sixth sense about tracking—or, in this case, being tracked.†   (source)
  • While Angela and Wyrden perused the runes with avid intensity, Arya walked over to one of the archways and, in an undertone, began to chant a spell for finding and locating.†   (source)
  • Though she wanted to get the most from her workout—she'd been an avid walker for the past five years—since she'd moved here, she'd found it hard to do.†   (source)
  • Her mouth was suddenly avid, hot and open as if with lips alone she could draw what she needed from him.†   (source)
  • An affable and unusually accomplished man of many interests—writer, inventor, member of the Royal Society, avid experimenter with inks and dyes—he was the ideal companion for Franklin.†   (source)
  • His lovemaking is unpredictable; sometimes he is avid, sometimes routine, sometimes absent-minded, as if doodling.†   (source)
  • In addition to being an avid camper, she studied cultural anthropology and natural science in college.†   (source)
  • But Lawson's avid pleasure at the familiar formula of self-immolation, vanished abruptly at the sound of Rearden's voice, a cold, trader's voice answering: "I do."†   (source)
  • I became friends with the Rockies' first baseman Todd Helton, who is another avid deer hunter, at about the same time Adam called the Duck Commander office.†   (source)
  • She, too, was an avid reader and attributed her "taste for letters" to Richard Cranch, who, she later wrote, "taught me to love the poets and put into my hands, Milton, Pope, and Thompson, and Shakespeare."†   (source)
  • An avid hunter, Rowland recognizes that the man is holding a rifle at port arms—diagonally across his body, with one hand on the stock and the other on the barrel.†   (source)
  • Before we were avid, and selfish.†   (source)
  • How avid we were at that moment for one word of confidence, one sentence to say that there were no grounds for fear, that the meeting could not have been more commonplace, more routine, that it had only been a question of social welfare, of sanitary arrangements!†   (source)
  • She put all her quick, young mind and avid soul into the struggle to receive, though piercingly aware every instant of the difference between her attire and that of the women who had bidden her there, noting acutely variations between their language and hers, their voices, their gestures and hers.†   (source)
  • But it was the one and only time they ever spent off on their own together, free of work and responsibility, and at heart both were countrymen, farmers, with an avid interest in soils,tillage, climate, and "improvements."†   (source)
  • Perhaps he did not intend a blow at all, but one or two small frame tenders paused at the ends of their lanes to watch the scene with avid eyes, to extract the last thrill from the sensation that was being kindly brought into the midst of their monotonous toilsome hours; and Lissy, who was creeping up anxiously, yet keeping out of the range of Himes's eye, crouched as though the hammer had been raised over her own head.†   (source)
  • They were both naked, and raising a rumpus that brought everyone in the apartment into the hall to watch, each couple in a bedroom doorway, all of them naked except the aproned and sweatered old woman, who clucked reprovingly, and the lecherous, dissipated old man, who cackled aloud hilariously through the whole episode with a kind of avid and superior glee.†   (source)
  • Among his first decisions after taking office was to release from jail those sentenced for violating the Sedition Act, and with the avid support of the Republican majority in Congress, he did away with Adams's Judiciary Act and the new circuit courts.†   (source)
  • The eyes were large, intent, almost avid, the nose ugly and discolored as if from weeping, the mouth old and closed from any speech.†   (source)
  • People came to see the child, and I do not know what tales they told but more people came, their faces avid with curiosity to see him-a curiosity which was never sated although they stared and stared with bulging eyes; and they went away with appropriate comments on their lips and mouths bursting to describe the poor little albino mite they had seen.†   (source)
  • He was also an avid amateur photographer, and my descriptions of the island instantly caused some Nikon gland deep within him to salivate.†   (source)
  • She did not approve of her father's avid watching of westerns and children's programs, and he insisted that he be allowed, by God, to view his "favorites."†   (source)
  • I am an avid reader of all signs, and I find that in the historical markers the prose of statehood reaches its glorious best, and most lyric.†   (source)
  • The men had little commerce with local people, but being avid radio listeners they could report news and politics from all parts of the nation.†   (source)
  • Evy, loving talent in music and lacking it herself, sought for it avidly in her children.†   (source)
  • While he spoke they had listened, grinning avidly.†   (source)
  • As he walked he gazed about him-avidly-as though familiar sights would more quickly still the gales within him.†   (source)
  • It was the first chance Francon had ever had at a Wynand commission and he grasped it avidly, thinking of the possibilities which it could open.†   (source)
  • He leant avidly forward with a respectful and impertinent manner, as if they were two people with the same ideas, educated men.†   (source)
  • Francie read them all avidly, then sold them at half price to the neighborhood stationery store and put the money in Mama's tin-can bank.†   (source)
  • WILLIE—(avidly) Thanks.†   (source)
  • Keating listened avidly.†   (source)
  • Grinning avidly he bent forward.†   (source)
  • It was Art; though remote from life, it enhanced life's values, and they witnessed it avidly.†   (source)
  • He seized avidly upon anything from which he could extract a suggestion of human interest.†   (source)
  • …in the Alpine chill, numbed and excited by the walk and the discussion; and, whether, like Naphta and Settembrini, they participated more actively or merely followed the conversation and broke in with only brief remarks, they were all so avidly involved that they often forgot where they were and stopped to form a deeply engrossed, gesticulating group, all speaking at once and blocking the walkway, unconcerned about strangers who had to detour around them or stopped to lend an ear,…†   (source)
  • "Now, me for a good old Manhattan, to begin wit'," exclaimed Hegglund avidly, looking about on the crowd in the room and feeling that now indeed he was a person.†   (source)
  • He is the monster avid for the greedy rights of "my and mine."†   (source)
  • He was nineteen and avid for life and he couldn't understand why he was doomed.†   (source)
  • Her look of avid interest gave place to one of apology and selfreproach.†   (source)
  • Or it resembled a greedy, avid, delicious quagmire which would swallow up the lost, benighted traveler with a last tired, liquid, contented sigh.†   (source)
  • They had an avid curiosity about the South and Southern women, and Scarlett gave them their first opportunity to satisfy it.†   (source)
  • And from among them rise one or two distinct figures, birds who sang with the rapt egotism of youth by the window; broke their snails on stones, dipped their beaks in sticky, viscous matter; hard, avid, remorseless; Jinny, Susan, Rhoda.†   (source)
  • A newspaper was propped up against the teapot and it was this newspaper that Mr. Cust was reading with avid interest.†   (source)
  • "Not meaning to change the subject, Ma'm," broke in Gerald hurriedly, for he had noticed Carreen's bewildered look and the avid curiosity on Suellen's face and feared lest they might ask Ellen embarrassing questions which would reveal how inadequate a chaperon he was.†   (source)
  • In the drafting room Keating noticed three draftsmen, their heads close together, bent over a section of the New York Banner, reading with a guilty kind of avid interest; he heard an unpleasant chuckle from one of them.†   (source)
  • Da-a-avid!†   (source)
  • I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.†   (source)
  • Philip, his restless mind avid for new things, became very devout.†   (source)
  • Trudging along the road or standing in some grimy wayside public house his elders spoke constantly of the subjects nearer their hearts, of Irish politics, of Munster and of the legends of their own family, to all of which Stephen lent an avid ear.†   (source)
  • Hippolyte raised his head with an effort, saying: "I have little brothers and sisters, over there, poor avid innocent.†   (source)
  • Just the same he was thinking that, unlike himself and his parents, the Cranstons were really more daring if not socially more avid of life.†   (source)
  • Her face tapered from a broad forehead to a pointed chin, her mouth was thin but strong and avid, and between her brows were two outcurving and passionate wrinkles.†   (source)
  • But both the diabolic love and the unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated fought for the possession of that soul satiated with primitive emotions, avid of lying fame, of sham distinction, of all the appearances of success and power.†   (source)
  • He was spry, avid, attractive enough physically, with very light hair, a very light and feeble mustache, and the delicate airs and ways of a small town Beau Brummell.†   (source)
  • Just then the merry-go-round stopped and without any plan or suggestion they seemed instinctively to drift to the side of the pavilion where the dancers—not many but avid—were moving briskly around.†   (source)
  • Hegglund was neither as schooled nor as attractive as some of the others, yet by reason of a most avid and dynamic disposition—plus a liberality where money and pleasure were concerned, and a courage, strength and daring which neither Doyle nor Ratterer nor Kinsella could match—a strength and daring almost entirely divested of reason at times—he interested and charmed Clyde immensely.†   (source)
  • BOOK TWENTY The Ranging of Powers Thus on the beachhead the Akhaians armed with you, Akhilleus, avid again for war, and Trojans faced them on the rise of plain.†   (source)
  • Avid for meat, he bounds in to attack but has no luck: a hail of javelins thrown by tough cowherds comes flying out at him, and brands of flame from which he flinches, roaring.†   (source)
  • Aias the Tall and Aias the Short he saw, avid for war, both standing there, and Teukros, from his hut this moment come to join them: all were near, and yet he could not reach them with a shout, so loud the clangor that went up to heaven, clash of shields and helms that rang with blows and blows upon the gates, now all were shut, besieged by Trojans trying to break them down.†   (source)
  • He turned abruptly toward the door, and an elderly woman, who had been listening avidly with the child clinging to her skirts, drew back in alarm.†   (source)
  • HAPPY [avidly]: The Loman Brothers, heh?†   (source)
  • But my hands grew clammy around the porcelain bowl as I thought of myself stepping out, alone and powerless, to confront that mob of solid and virtuous citizens, avid for the excitement of punishment and blood to alleviate the tedium of existence.†   (source)
  • She blinked up out of her avid shameclosing eyes, mewing plaintively and long, showing him her milkwhite teeth.†   (source)
  • (He repeats) Spontaneously to seek out the saurian's lair in order to entrust their teats to his avid suction.†   (source)
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