Considering the youth of that second group, we'll call its members the Eager Eight. |
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Eager as ever to please, here's just two of the many dissertations we received. |
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Eager to learn from the great man, she hangs on his every word, reminding him of his own faraway innocence and purity of motive. |
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Eager to attack Troy, Agamemnon kills her, and the Greeks are given favorable winds for their ships. |
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Eager to endear herself to the assembled press, Brandy hosts three dinners where she meets and greets and poses for pictures. |
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Eager parents of nubile daughters from Patna to Pune, Jammu to Juhu, here's the London boy of your dreams. |
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Eager tourists await excursion buses to the historical sites and local skippers try to entice visitors onto boat trips. |
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Eager to claim pole position, he skidded off the track with two minutes left, but thankfully walked away unhurt. |
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Eager suitors are invited to write Rowland care of her maximum security penitentiary. |
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Eager equestrians were paraded round the ring by charming chestnuts and graceful greys in the popular horse classes. |
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Eager to please, it goes for easy laughs, reinforcing rather than challenging stereotypes. |
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Eager beavers may just be uploading pictures in anticipation of the launch of the new product. |
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Eager for up-to-the-minute election results without the bloviations of talking heads? |
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Eager and determined to get that first break as a 3D animator, you've sorted out your showreel which you're going to tout around all the Soho post-production companies. |
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Eager whispers followed his every step as he paced restlessly down the cream and burgundy corridors, glowing eyes shielded behind his dark glasses. |
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Eager to see my friend, I decided to go to the prayer meeting with him. |
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Eager to prevent the family ruction he knows this will bring about, Ray makes a beeline over to his parents' house to try to intercept the letter. |
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Eager to apply his business acumen to the stuttering national economy, Blocher had his eye on the finance ministry, but this went instead to a conservative Free Democrat. |
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Eager to avenge last month's defeat, his superior teamwork paid dividends. |
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Eager Beavers from Brotton really put on a polished performance in their latest fundraising venture. |
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Eager to set sail for home, he ignored the local knowledge of monsoon wind patterns that were still blowing onshore. |
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It is going to be good to be an Eager Beaver but pick your projects and manage your time. |
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Eager twitchers are heading for Papa Westray, Orkney, after the chestnut bunting was spotted in what is thought to be a UK first. |
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So, instead of swimming as a mermaid, Jane is forced to don the 100-pound costume of Eager Beaver, one of the theme park's dancing animals. |
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Eager to reach her fundraising target and help find a breakthrough into tackling lymphoedema, Susan is grateful for donations. |
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Eager to remarry, he began enquiring into the horoscopes of prospective brides. |
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Atlas Copco, Eager Beaver, Genesis, Liebherr, LeeBoy, Rosco and Terex. |
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Eager for a fait acompli, Ferdinand II played for time, hoping he could get Columbus out on his second voyage to the Indies before any suspensions were agreed to. |
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He's eager and willing to please and follows my instructions without a fault. |
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At Imprint, what we require of volunteers is to be enthusiastic, eager and willing to learn. |
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Like any wise leader he was aware that his own success would have been nothing had his men not been willing, even eager, to follow him. |
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The problem, it seems, is that Morocco is eager to sell its image as a moderate, reasonable state within a sea of unreasonable countries. |
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Star voices not only draw eager listeners but also their message is readily accepted. |
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Doubts resolved, he is now committed, eager and ready to take up the challenge. |
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The southern Sudanese are eager and ready to provide the balance of forces. |
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The most important factor is the open and friendly staff who are always ready to serve and eager to please. |
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Thus, the child can develop into a multi-faceted personality eager and ready to face the world. |
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This eager anticipation almost mocks readerly expectation as it is simultaneously manipulating it. |
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I know you're eager to prove John's worth but do try to keep a civil tongue in your head. |
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Donning childlike smiles and glowing with eager anticipation, we made haste for the dining room just a few steps down the hall. |
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Hearing of that strange adventure the children's eager faces glowed with delight and excitement. |
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And publicists, eager to please their clients, are still fibbing to keep their starlets young. |
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Early next morning found the Talbots eager like frisky children raring to get started in their adventure. |
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The experts on the managing committee of the Federal Railways were ranged against private-sector firms, eager to sell their power equipment. |
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His what-you-see-is-what-you-get authenticity seemed to defy Wall Street norm, leaving those eager to pigeonhole him at a loss. |
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If a date is too eager to hear about dancing, or judgmental, or overly impressed, he's out the door. |
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He has fleshy pale cheeks, bright brown eyes and an eager bearing that leaves the impression of an overgrown boy. |
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I was actually quite surprised that people were very eager to share their plants. |
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Two terribly eager young men were dueling with megaphones, exchanging jocular insults across the concourse. |
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Because he is eager to welcome thrushes and waxwings to his yard, he is adding berries to one area. |
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Hopefully i wont be all stiff and achy since i might have done a bit too much today, but i was eager to get in and do some gardening! |
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There had to be about 100 girls in this crowd, each one of them eager and ready to go to the palace. |
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York played host to the tenth and final leg of Chapman's month-long UK tour, and an eager audience gave her a warm welcome and a fond farewell. |
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It's easy to see why the candidates are so eager talk about anything other than marriage. |
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The studios have always approached Cannes warily, eager to use it as a PR launch pad for their prestige pictures. |
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I virtually bit the waiter's hand off, so eager was I to get my laughing gear around the chef's petits fours. |
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Immediately, my Yorkshire terrier puppy Bonbon came bouncing in the hallway, eager to greet me. |
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When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy. |
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But, even though Waters had no real power to say yea or nay to their ideas, they were eager please the Pope of Trash. |
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While you may be eager to begin this period of rest and relaxation, don't be in a rush to jump in the car after a long day of work. |
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This meant that allottees, eager to build their dream homes, couldn't do so. |
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The waif seemed eager to get inside, but I didn't want to alienate her affections if she had a home. |
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It didn't take long to attract the 30 teams needed, and some eager would-be dragon racers had to be turned away. |
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Pettersen, 60, was about 15 and the eager new owner of a reel-to-reel tape recorder when a friend told him about a local singer. |
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She also teaches those who are eager to learn the skills, especially the dying art of beadwork. |
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Michael's experiences left him energized, excited, and eager to apply his newfound knowledge to his own enterprise. |
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He was followed by other cattlemen, as well as woodcutters eager to exploit the tall stands of cedar. |
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A place of timeless beauty, it beckons to anyone eager to explore remote natural wonders. |
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But he was eager to emulate his father and reconquer parts of Germany lost after the defeat of Quinctilius Varus. |
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He was a quiet person, not overly ambitious but always eager to reconcile disputes between opposing parties. |
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Mr Goss sees no danger and is eager to recite statistics that paint a bright picture of his operation's future. |
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Wilkens, the NBA's all-time winningest coach, is at his best guiding a group of veterans eager for someone to point the way to the promised land. |
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So, seized with impatience and eager to get the party started, we headed on, following the streams of people going the same direction. |
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Both the Soviet Union and the United States were eager to kick in cash and advice. |
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Although this varies by organization, the front-line people are often all too eager to kick you upstairs. |
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The Argentina team had problems holding serve and the Swedes were eager to finish the match in four sets. |
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However, we also are eager to add intermediate-level chamber music for any combination of strings, winds or voice without piano. |
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I didn't want to play myself, but I didn't mind that others were eager and willing. |
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His TV Dinner was a feast of curiosities enmeshed with the everyday, a meal that leaves one feeling slightly queasy, even overstuffed, but eager for more. |
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This has always put Arabs aback, made them vulnerable and eager to avoid uncalculated escalation. |
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Many were just eager to forget, absolve, or overlook serious accusations, simply because doing so would be hugely convenient. |
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Ms Jones says in an afterword to the book that she is eager to bring her books into the world while they are still relevant. |
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She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid. |
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In August 1984, I arrived at the university of Virginia in Charlottesville, eager to jump into college life. |
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Sunday's World Cup final has the most astute soccer experts and eager bookies setting their odds on who will win. |
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Yet in practice, those most attentive to LGBT concerns may be the least eager to pick this fight. |
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He often receives inquiries from sellers eager to verify that their items are authentic. |
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And the remaining militants appear eager to milk the crisis right to the bitter end. |
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Romney clearly sided with blitzer, eager to discuss the nasty attacks against him. |
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The bluegrass State is eager to grow hemp for the purposes of research and commerce. |
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The moment seems to be a familiar breed of Internet gaffe when a eager but inept social media staffer makes a blunder. |
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After all, there will always be a bureaucrat, politician, or judge eager to set the limits on what is unacceptably offensive. |
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This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo. |
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Humans are tribal, and it feels natural to think that humanity has always been eager to categorize on the basis of skin color. |
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On an average weekend morning when the whole family is at home, they'll go through a good jar of the stuff on toast, waffles, pancakes, or eager fingers. |
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Too eager to be respectful, he knocked more and more forcefully, shaking the brittle wallboards and splintering a few pieces of the flimsy sun-baked wood. |
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I find tears in my eyes as we drive through the mountains, the earth alive with sturdy walnuts and tall pines, the flowering apricots and eager poplars of spring. |
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Busily I raced around New York, horning in on investors' conferences, eager to meet a financial guru or an entrepreneur who could teach me something. |
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But the war grew wings and swept on and except for one Ju 88 who buzzed the field without biting yet drew 5000 rounds from the eager ack-ack boys. |
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They aren't eager young design students hoping to score someone's extra invitation or sneak in on a kindly editor's coattails. |
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I was very eager to protect myself from opportunists who may have crawled out of the woodwork to make a quick buck. |
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If he realized that she knew that he was an escaped convict, then he might assume that she would be only too eager to send him back from whence he came. |
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The cool britannia mood of 1997 had looked forward in eager and largely misplaced optimism to the New Labour future. |
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He was eager to share his impressions and opinions on my writings. |
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With every race and creed of the the world paddling on a lake in Queens, I was eager to see how a team can win or lose. |
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Especially in the age of postmodernism or the New Age, many people are eager to enjoy their present moments and realize their own individual dreams. |
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When I was fortunate enough to find a good job in Perth in 1975 I was eager to return and revisit those beautiful, wild places I had known as a child. |
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But behind them are ISIS fighters and sympathizers and locals eager to curry favor by selling out their neighbors. |
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Why the government is so vehemently eager to delist the grizzly remains a troublesome question. |
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Every morning my brother and I had our horses fetched from the grazing-ground and rode out to visit neighbouring camps and laagers, eager to see all that we could. |
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All bulldozed by developers, eager to satiate the needs of the rich and foreign. |
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Ramos is a conduit between his Latino audience and politicians eager to schmooze with it. |
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Moreover, Kodak's bets are paying off in health-imaging, where it's leveraging longstanding ties with doctors eager to replace X-rays with digital images. |
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The national media, eager to break another disaster story, have been carrying images that make York appear marooned to all except yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur. |
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After a decadent weekend in the company of friends, I found myself in a dodgy hotel flanked by eager minds and stomachs. |
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At the outset, most of the jurors are eager to render a guilty verdict and go home. |
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In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, most of us are eager to return home for the holiday. |
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So it may seem odd that I've been eager to get a report card from my employees on the eve of my first year as the editor-in-chief of Fast Company. |
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The clink and jangle of the amusement arcade caught my ear, and I joined other eager gamblers throwing good money after bad in the name of pre-flight entertainment. |
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Henry, and the rest of the scientific world, was eager to learn the effects of a suborbital flight on a monkey, whose anatomy resembles that of humans. |
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While Paris and Berlin are eager to repair frayed transatlantic relations, the Europeans do not want to be dictated to by Washington. |
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Having experienced professional football and American football he is eager for rugby to take on similar codes of practice. |
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He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform. |
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Now girls are eager to learn the difference between cross-head screwdrivers and Allen keys and this book explains all. |
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Or they may be eager to enter the Anthropod Zoo, where an enormous praying mantis stands at the entrance. |
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He received lavish donations from the wealthy families of Rome, who, following his own example, were eager, by doing so, to expiate their sins. |
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With the King now present, Cromwell was eager to find out what conditions the King would acquiesce to if his authority was restored. |
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Charles was eager to exploit the widening divisions, and apparently viewed Joyce's actions as an opportunity rather than a threat. |
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Those from the less prosperous Hispaniola were eager to search for new success in a new settlement. |
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Some were worth it, but many buttons remained unpushed after the first eager unwrapping. |
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Very rapidly one European power followed another, all eager to trade along this route. |
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Your partner will be so eager to be licked and caressed that your introductory tonguings in this area just won't be enough. |
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Had he taken a drop too many in his quest for thrillsome delights, and was his mother overly eager to be rid of him? |
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The size of his offer indicates that he is eager to buy the house. |
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I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip. |
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Now he's too eager for the graveyard pun or, if he's trying too hard, the Billy Collins premise that sucks all the air out of a poem. |
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Even when they were not eager for talk, sometimes they were interestable if addressed directly. |
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It was great to report back to Mike and Jason on this knowing they were eager to hear that everything was operational. F.A.B. Virgil! |
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In 1854 the railway arrived from Paris bringing many tourists eager to enjoy the beaches of Biarritz. |
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Everywhere Nokias and Samsungs are stapled to eager ears, clipped onto trousers or slipped into purses. |
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He was eager to break into the highly profitable spice trade between Europe and Asia, which was conducted chiefly by land. |
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For the political right, naturally eager to put the left in bad odor, the naming frenzy was a bonanza. |
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Make no mistake, they will come to Anfield eager to upset the applecart and prove there is life after Redknapp. |
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In the 20th century, there were even more creations, as Prime Ministers were eager to secure majorities in the House of Lords. |
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Stun Tech's Kaufman is eager to begin marketing the belt to other countries. |
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To begin with, bird watchers are often more eager to hit the road than their nonbirding colleagues. |
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The Portuguese crown was eager to tap into that gold source, but Gama's armada had failed to find it. |
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In spite of the earlier rupture in their relations, Maxentius was eager to present himself as his father's devoted son after his death. |
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She was once again eager for divorce but proceedings were frustrated by James, who she believed her husband had bribed. |
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Columbus was eager to pay back dividends to those who had invested in his promise to fill his ships with gold. |
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Like Vladimir, Yaroslav was eager to improve relations with the rest of Europe, especially the Byzantine Empire. |
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Thatcher insisted on private financing for the British share, and the City assured her that private enterprise was eager to fund it. |
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Both Britain and France were eager that the canal should remain open as an important conduit of oil. |
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Britain was eager to tame Nasser and looked towards the United States for support. |
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Caesar was eager to return to Gaul for the winter due to growing unrest there, and an agreement was mediated by Commius. |
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The club was full of eager young hotheads who never seemed to be able to agree on anything. |
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As Zulu troops could not marry until they had washed their spears in blood, they were eager for combat. |
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In Denmark and the Faroe Islands, people are the most eager at the ballot box, as the percentage of electorates is close to 90 per cent. |
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In other countries, notably Britain and America, this practice was carried out by individual manufacturers eager to improve their own methods. |
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With the match effectively over, the crowd were eager for the Ashes to be presented to England, and the celebrations to begin. |
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She was eager, but public outcry in Monaco against her playing a kleptomaniac made reject the role. |
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Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. |
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Proof of this adaptability is seen in its easy and eager ability to repopulate areas damaged by forest fires or clearings. |
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Surfers Paradise is just over the border in Queensland, and I was eager to dip a toe into that interesting and erratic state. |
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Other girls in the foster home are eager to destroy her and get her kicked out of the place. It's a tough situation. |
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Chaplin was eager to start with the new company and offered to buy out his contract with First National. |
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She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case. |
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Nance was eager to oblige, but she had the courage of her convictions and held her point. |
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She is not eager to accept the deal, but cannot turn down the opportunity to regain her piano. |
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Although the king was eager for war in Europe, his ministers were more cautious. |
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I was so eager to make their bedclothes agreeable and nice, I am afraid I was a bit loose-handed with the starch bottle. |
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General Montgomery and Major General Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff, were eager to launch the invasion. |
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However, the importance of a school's reputation also makes schools more eager to expel pupils that don't perform well. |
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By 13 March Richard had returned to England, and by 12 May he had set sail for Normandy with some 300 ships, eager to engage Philip in war. |
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While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. |
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So why, you might ask, are many of our leaders so eager to build it? |
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We made a calculated decision not to visit them on the first day, in case we seemed too eager. |
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Another younger woman, well-dressed in a full Zairian woman's kikwembe suit, came in with a smiling face, eager to see the child. |
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But eager as Kate was for her beauty sleep, the light burned late in her room. |
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Voltaire, who had been imprisoned and maltreated by the French government, was eager to accept Frederick's invitation to live at his palace. |
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His replacement, Darren Rounce was eager to tell us of his store's successes. |
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The old German shorthair female seemed as eager to go as Bill's 6-year-old wirehair Sage. |
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I was among the masses, eager to check off an item high on my bucket list. |
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He also appealed to Spain for help, but Spain was eager to be on good terms with the papacy to obtain the title to the recently discovered New World. |
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When the European leg of the Cry of Love tour began, Hendrix was longing for his new studio and creative outlet, and was not eager to fulfill the commitment. |
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He had an economic interest in the enslavement of the Hispaniola natives and for that reason was not eager to baptize them, which attracted criticism from some churchmen. |
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Mithridates antagonised Rome by seeking to expand his kingdom, and Rome for her part seemed equally eager for war and the spoils and prestige that it might bring. |
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We should pity all the sloppy kissers, who are seen as inexperienced and over eager, and those who are aggressive kissers are likely to be selfish lovers. |
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Many early researchers, both before and after the periodic table was published, were eager to be the first to discover and name the missing element. |
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Edward was eager to discuss the potential for governmental reform, but the barons were unwilling to begin any such debate until the problem of Gaveston had been resolved. |
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The event was marred by the large crowds of eager spectators who surged into the palace, knocking down a wall and forcing Edward to flee by the back door. |
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In 1101, after Earl Hugh's death, Gruffudd and Cadwgan came to terms with England's new king, Henry I, who was consolidating his own authority and also eager to come to terms. |
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He arrived at the party, nattily dressed and eager to socialize. |
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With that completed, he was eager to assist the war effort again. |
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The people of Poland have traditionally been seen as hospitable to artists from abroad and eager to follow cultural and artistic trends popular in other countries. |
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Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence. |
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The planters, however, were not eager for the return of the former governor Lord Willoughby, fearing disputes over titles, but the King ordered he be restored. |
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There were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot. |
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Buster Keaton was eager to explore the new medium, but when his studio, MGM, made the changeover to sound, he was quickly stripped of creative control. |
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The tabloid newspaper was eager to dish the dirt on celebrities. |
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After visiting Shrewsbury he joined his Wedgwood relatives at Maer Hall, Staffordshire, but found them too eager for tales of his travels to give him much rest. |
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Stuart Millheiser and the ALS Guardian Angels are ready and eager to get back to helping those affected by this devastating illness, just in time for the holiday season. |
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Callie found herself the slightest bit irate. Her father had been so eager for her to wed a nobleman, but here he was conscioning Zeus' s dalliance with a tavern-wench! |
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Of these, the Georgian Ajars were the most eager to rise up against Russia, but the Ottomans also hoped for revolts in Daghestan and Azerbaijan upon entry of their troops. |
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Disappointed at the lack of a male heir, and eager to remarry, Henry attempted to have his marriage to Catherine annulled, but Pope Clement VII refused his request. |
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By this point in the war, the barons on both sides were eager to avoid an open battle, so members of the clergy brokered a truce, to the annoyance of both Henry and Stephen. |
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As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust. |
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But even before he could do so, half-a-dozen black Somanlis, now eager for gain, interposed their strong arms to prevent such culpable waste of good saleworthy slave stuff. |
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Cabral is warmly received by the Kolathiri Raja of Cannanore who, eager for a Portuguese alliance, offers to sell the Portuguese spices on credit. |
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Little else is known of the young Severus' education, but according to Cassius Dio the boy had been eager for more education than he had actually got. |
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However, the expenses of outfitting a ship were immense, and few native Portuguese merchants had the wherewithal to finance one, despite eager government encouragement. |
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