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  NUMBERS OF EAGER LITTLE PORTERS
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj eager having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy "eager to learn","eager to travel abroad","eager for success","eager helpers","an eager look"
  • n eager a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
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Si, Si, Signore! He Cried Eagerly

• Interesting fact: In Sweden, when leaving someone's home, wait until you get to the doorway to step outside before putting on your coat. To do so earlier suggests you are eager to leave.
• • Eager Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. "Gold will be sometimes so eager , as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself."
  • Eager Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase. "And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes.""How eagerly ye follow my disgraces!""When to her eager lips is brought
    Her infant's thrilling kiss.""A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys.""Conceit and grief an eager combat fight."
  • n Eager Same as Eagre.
  • Eager Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. "A nipping and an eager air.""Eager words."
  • Eager Sharp; sour; acid. "Like eager droppings into milk."
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• Interesting fact: A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip, otherwise, a busybody.
• • eager Sharp; sour; acid.
  • eager Sharp; keen; biting; severe; bitter. [Obsolete or archaic.]
  • eager Sharply inclined or anxious; sharp-set; excited by ardent desire; impatiently longing; vehement; keen: as, the soldiers were eager to engage the enemy; men are eager in the pursuit of wealth; eager spirits; eager zeal.
  • eager Manifesting sharpness of desire or strength of feeling; marked by great earnestness: as, an eager look or manner; eager words.
  • eager Brittle.
  • eager Synonyms Fervent, fervid, warm, glowing, zealous, forward, enthusiastic, impatient, sanguine, animated.
  • eager To make eager; urge; incite.
  • n eager A sudden and formidable influx and surging of the tide in a high wave or waves, up a river or an estuary; a bore, as in the Severn, the Hooghly, and the Bay of Fundy.
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• • adj Eager ē′gėr excited by desire: ardent to do or obtain:
  • Eager Same as Eagre.
  • adj Eager ē′gėr (obs.) earnest: keen, severe, sour, acid, bitter
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• George Eliot

  

  “But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
• Desiderius Erasmus

  

  “Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
• Frank A. Clark

  

  “The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.”
• Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

  

  “I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.”
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  

  “We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.”
• Eleanor Roosevelt

  

  “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”

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