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Gall. The corpse being laid out and properly attired, immense numbers of people of every rank, from the highest to the lowest, flocked to see it. Everybody was anxious to make use of the last opportunity he would have for entitling himself to say 'I too have seen Kant. This went on for many days during which, from morning to night, the house was thronged with the public.
Webster's temperament. In those early days he was anxious to pay his debts; but they did not lie heavy upon him or carry a proper sense of responsibility, as they did to Ezekiel and to his father.
Her courage sustained his, and the longing to see her hastened his departure as soon as it was safe to let him go; for Lucindy's letters were always of a dismal sort, and made him anxious to put his shoulder to the wheel.
But, in carrying out his plan, he had disturbed it by his own weakness: he had absolutely allowed himself to fall in love with his cousin; and when, as he had just done, he offered her his hand, he was quite as anxious that she should accept him for her own sake as for that of her money.
She had learned, to her cost, that it would not be politic to speak against Grant, and she was not disposed to praise him. She seldom mentioned him at all. The dinner bell rang, and still Herbert had not returned. His father began to feel anxious. "It is strange that Herbert remains so long away," he said.
There was something in her tone which caused Florence's heart to beat; she seemed to guess all of a sudden what was coming. Bertha turned and gazed at her. "Look here," she said, "I don't do things without a reason. I am anxious to be your friend because well, because I do like you, and also because I think you may be useful to me by and by."
I should like to discover the abode of some Northern jarl; it would indeed be a grand retaliation to give them a taste of the sufferings they have inflicted upon us." "That would be good work," Egbert said; "nevertheless I own that at present I am anxious to be at sea again." "Two days will be sufficient to refit," Edmund said, "and then we will spread our wings.
Why, Lord Rosebery declared himself in favour of taxation of land values fifteen years ago. Lord Balfour has said a great many shrewd and sensible things on this subject which he is, no doubt, very anxious to have overlooked at the present time.
You would not be surprised even if the magnetic Islander said: "It is not your frankincense and myrrh that I want, though I thank you. That which I have is for you. I am more anxious for you to know and live it, than you can be to have and hold it. But the mystery is that it will not come to abide with you, while you are passionate for possession.
Bradley watched the sick man in silence, then noting that the room was darkening, he stepped to an open window and cast a look of anxious inquiry at the murky sky. As if in answer to his thought, there came the low rumble of distant thunder, bringing a look of relief and hopefulness to the face of the physician. Returning to the bedside, he gave a few directions, then, as he was leaving, remarked,