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Sentences starting with anxious

Anxious spirits and throbbing hearts were those that now sought shelter in the Serapeum, fully prepared to perish with their god, and yet eager with enthusiasm to avert his fall if possible. [10]
Anxious as was the Ry to learn what was going on in the towns, Jowett's mount caught his eye. [11]
Anxious days had followed that night in the laboratory. [11]

Sentences ending with anxious

But why are you so anxious? [2]
I think it will be quite safe, and your wife is anxious. [11]
Yet when I went to Lepsius, the most earnest of my teachers, to show him the finished manuscript, I felt very anxious. [10]
At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
He did everything to put himself in the way of conviction, was constant at the evening meetings, wore a grave face, refrained from play, and tried to feel anxious. [4]
Of his ability there never had been a moment's doubt, but it had ever been an uncomfortable ability, it had tortured foes and made friends anxious. [11]
Every face in the congregation was eager, and some were mystified, even anxious. [11]
I did not take this as serious advice, but its meaning is that one who has all his senses about him cannot help being anxious. [6]
It was awful still, and we talked low and was anxious. [5]
His expressions were so lofty, and his flow of language so beautiful and free, that Porphyrius did not dare to interrupt him, though this long delay on the part of the leader of the cause made him intolerably anxious. [10]

Short sentences using anxious

One anxious hour followed another. [10]
I am very anxious. [7]
She seemed singularly anxious. [5]
I was getting anxious. [5]
His face was anxious. [11]
He became very anxious. [10]
One is always, always anxious! [2]

Sentences containing anxious two or more times

All the family were anxious to get home--Mark Twain most anxious of all. [5]
But that was only because she was not self-opinionated, and was anxious, more anxious than any woman in all the North. [11]
They are anxious now, they will not be less anxious then--just the reverse; people always want a thing that is denied them. [5]
I feel anxious about him; more anxious on one point than I dare quite express to myself. [14]

More example sentences with the word anxious in them

But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
He mentioned my young friend and said he was very anxious to have the $7000 now to begin his banking operations with, and could wait a while for the rest. [5]
Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
Excuse me, but you do seem a little tired, and unless you're very anxious to get on--' 'Yes, yes, we are,' returned the old man fretfully. [12]
We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
John prayed, but without feeling any worse, and then went desperately into the house, and told the family that he was in an anxious state of mind. [4]
The chief steward, with that anxious civility which beauty can inspire in even so great a personage, conducted her to her seat beside me. [11]
I followed it with interest, for I was anxious to learn how easy-divorce eradicated adultery in America, but I was disappointed; I have no idea yet how it did it. [5]
However, Orion went with his anxious friend to the ship-yard; the old ship-builder, a kind-hearted giant, was as ready and glad to undertake the rescue of the Sisters as if each one was his own mother. [10]
All now stood with hands uplifted and eyes fixed in anxious expectancy on the curtain. [10]
Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking and feeling at that moment. [2]
He divided it with anxious care. [11]
The anxious wife wished to see Count Frontenac himself and then to find Iberville. [11]
We do, however, wish to know what are the convictions of any such persons in matters of highest interest about which there is so much honest difference of opinion in this age of deep and anxious and devout religious scepticism. [6]
In such regions wise and careful work was necessary, for the English rule had been fair and kindly; and men who have been ruled in that way are not always anxious for a change. [5]
His eyes were wild, anxious and yearning, his face deadly pale and covered with a cold sweat. [11]
I can understand why you should be anxious to know the particulars of my interview with Mr. Dryfoos"; and in the statement which followed he did not spare him the smallest. [8]
But there were white faces and trembling knees and anxious looks. [4]
The next morning, while a score or more of delinquents sat in the anxious seats, Justice Garry recognized me and gave me precedence. [9]
The danger in which Heinz stood of being drawn into the monastery made him deeply anxious, and he had already ventured several times to oppose his design. [10]
The night before, when I had sat with Miss Thorn beside the fire, they went up; this morning her anxious solicitude for the Celebrity had sent them down again. [9]
The young fellows were very anxious that the artist should keep at his work; they would catch her. [4]
Joanna and Pulcheria were very anxious as to the fate of Rufinus. [10]
Literally the nights were filled with music, and the only cares that infested the day appeared in the anxious faces of the mothers as the campaign became more intricate and uncertain. [4]
Hawley, who was well aware of Warner's peculiar ability, was anxious to secure his co-operation and assistance. [4]
He made his way at once; everybody was anxious to know him and talk with him. [5]
Of course, I was very anxious to get a glimpse of the President, and so we went down to the wharf, where we heard that he had gone off for a horseback ride. [9]
Not a whisper was uttered, now, but the three men stared ahead into the shadows and two of them spun the wheel back and forth with anxious watchfulness while the steamer tore along. [5]
His mental life was too rich, and the unburdening of his anxious soul too great a relief for that. [10]
Henry Brevoort, who was then in London, wrote an anxious letter to Irving to impress him with the necessity of making much of Mr. Jeffrey. [4]
In one there was the statement that "she was progressing favourably with her English"; in another, that "she was riding a good deal"; again, that "she appeared anxious to adapt herself to her new life. [11]
Colonel Ryder's face was stern, Clovelly was pale and anxious, as moment after moment went, and the boat was not yet free. [11]
His anxious longing was mingled with regret for the lost opportunity of seeing Selene and alarm at the Emperor's prolonged absence. [10]
That the education was mainly left to McDonald, and that her parents were simply anxious about her safety, she did not learn till long afterwards. [4]
The whole village was interested, and anxious, and sent for news of me every day; and not only once a day, but several times. [5]
Onion Clemens, meantime, was forwarding his manuscript, and for once seems to have won his brother's approval, so much so that Mark Twain was willing, indeed anxious, that Howells should run the "autobiography" in the Atlantic. [5]
There followed what was for me an anxious silence, while the three of them continued to stare at me. [9]
The poor mother was doubly anxious because he seemed so unconscious of the risk he ran up there and looked about him even more boldly and self-reliantly than usual. [10]
And now he was determined, if it cost him the effort of all his remaining days, to close another discussion and put forever to rest the anxious doubts about the larva of meloe. [6]
He thought she was anxious, as on a former occasion, lest his election to the office of Eletto might prove his ruin, so he drew her towards him, exclaiming "Have no fear, Bonita. [10]
She said she was anxious to reach the Southern Hotel where Mr. Simons, one of the absent members, was staying, before he went out. [5]
Truth is, Phips was anxious that Gering should have no chance of objecting to the scoundrel who had, years before, tried to kidnap his now affianced wife--who had escaped a deserved death on the gallows. [11]
Another lady, who was a friend of hers, and a strong believer in Perkinism, was very anxious to try the effects of tractoration upon this unfortunate blemish. [6]
His heart throbbed violently as, full of anxious expectation, he obeyed her signal to draw nearer. [10]
While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our men in great number shall be avoided, I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. [7]
I have been very anxious for some days in regard to our armies in the field, but am considerably cheered, just now, by favorable news from them. [7]
True, I am very anxious for East Tennessee to be occupied by us; but I see and appreciate the difficulties you mention. [7]
The physicians became very anxious about his health, but when they sent him medicine he threw it away. [10]
True, he has vanquished foes enough, but the demon of melancholy, that makes even Dr. Mathys anxious, is far worse than the infidels before whom you were compelled to retreat in Algiers--far more terrible than the Turks and heretics combined. [10]
She gazed into vacancy with a sore and anxious heart, and, as an insane violinist lures the same tone from the instrument again and again, she constantly returned to the same thought, "Lost! [10]
The doctor joined us, but I noticed that he was anxious, and he did not stay long. [4]
The President is urgent and anxious that your army should move against him by forced marches. [7]
I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy; and without consultation with, or the knowledge of, the Cabinet, I prepared the original draft of the proclamation, and, after much anxious thought, called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject. [7]
The fawn started up with an anxious bleat: the doe turned; she came back; she couldn't leave it. [4]
Presently she looked up at him with a look a little abashed, a little anxious, yet tender withal. [11]
Without the least unbending from his dignity, he told me many anecdotes about city politicians, which would have been amusing if I had not been anxious about other things. [4]
I have your two despatches of this morning, and am anxious to hear from Sheridan. [7]
His face restlessly turned to the wall--a vexed, stormy, anxious face and head, scarred by the whip of that overlord more cruel and tyrannous than Time, the Miserable Mind. [11]
Yet she remembered too that her father had appeared the more anxious of the two about the Sergeant's sleep. [11]
It was only too natural that his strength should fail him, so, without feeling at all alarmed but only very pitiful and anxious to help, she ran back to a fruit-stall which they had passed at the entrance to the garden from the street. [10]
She was anxious to write of things she had known and seen; and among the number was the West Yorkshire character, for which any tale laid among the Luddites would afford full scope. [14]
He was anxious to visit Washington and study the politics of the country, and see the sort of society produced in the freedom of a republic, where there was no court to give the tone and there were no class lines to determine position. [4]
Justine Caron came to the house, pale and anxious, to inquire. [11]
Then she turned to the frightened and anxious Mrs. Flynn. [11]
He was anxious to select the most suitable one; the master who had created this work of art had been his friend, and had closed his eyes in death shortly after its completion. [10]
It was piteous to see the anxious look of the hunted, half-drowned creature as--it came to the surface and caught sight of the dog. [4]
I was anxious to see my grandfather, and to confront Grafton Carvel with his villany. [9]
I was anxious to see beyond it, for ships of war might appear at any moment. [11]
Sellers was anxious to report his discoveries to Hawkins; so he took his leave, saying that if the two "young devotees of the colored Muse" thought they could manage without him, he would go and look after his affairs. [5]
We were anxious to reach it, we were glad to leave it; we note as to all these places that our joy at departing always exceeds that on arriving, which is a merciful provision of nature for people who must keep moving. [4]
But it appears to me as if something more nearly concerning you than this were wrong, for I never knew you anxious about money and lands. [10]
He was anxious to make Barbara's life in Prebrunn a pleasant one. [10]
Presently he intended to look about him for something to do that would satisfy Edith and fill up his time; but meantime he drifted on, alternately anxious and elated, until the season opened. [4]
They were anxious to learn whether the rumour that Didymus's garden was to be taken for the twin statues had already spread abroad, and their first questions revealed that this was the case. [10]
Then she said to him with an anxious note in her voice: "What do you know about my life-about the 'great change,' as you call it? [11]
He was anxious to hear all this from her own lips, before he settled down to work. [10]
I am anxious to have a full consultation with you before leaving for America. [6]
All are anxious to get the start of the sun, in the business of the day. [4]
He seemed anxious to get away, and looked round for his cap. [11]
To know what to do with him gave me many an anxious moment. [9]
He was tickled to death with 'Every Other Week' so far as it had gone, and was anxious to pay his respects to the editor. [8]
Caesar was anxious to bring them into fashion, and it might safely be expected that those Alexandrians who had held out their hands to accept them would appear in them on the morrow, as no order required that they should be worn. [10]
He talked hopefully to Becky; but an age of anxious waiting passed and no sounds came again. [5]
Howells had begged to be allowed to see the story, and Mrs. Clemens was especially anxious that he should do so. [5]
I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress, perfect relief is not possible, except with time. [7]
The most anxious time of Irving's life was the winter of 1815-16. [4]
For the first time he was anxious about the woman for her own sake. [11]
For the first time he saw her weep, and her winning manner seemed to him equally touching, whether she yielded to anxious distress of mind or to joyous hopes. [10]
At the same time he listened with anxious attention, so as not to lose one word of Polykarp's. [10]
The rain and thunder were booming yet, and the anxious family were still waiting, still hoping. [5]
My feet were thrust into two pairs of heavy woollen stockings, and Dorothy bound her own silk kerchief at my throat, whispering anxious questions the while. [9]
Her face, looking through the barriers, pale, glowing, anxious, almost weird, seemed set to the bars of a cage. [11]
A thought darted through his brain with the speed of lightning, and without hesitation he drew the ring from the hand of his astonished daughter, whispering curtly, yet tenderly, in reply to her anxious cry, "What are you doing? [10]
The lad's heart throbbed wildly and yet he felt anxious and embarrassed, and he asked himself whether he had not better turn back and return next morning when he might hope to find Selene alone. [10]
I should have thought that the future king of Egypt might have been less anxious to save! [10]
She gazed on this circle, including all she loved best, with anxious, perplexed looks, and at last, recognizing them one by one, passed her hand across her pale fore head as if to remove a veil, smiled at each, and closed her eyes once more. [10]
He proposed that they devote the month of October to the work, and inclosed a letter from Mallory, who owned not only a religious paper, The Churchman, but also the Madison Square Theater, and was anxious for a Howells play. [5]
Each time that these hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at the count and at Anna Mikhaylovna, the latter very adroitly turned the conversation to insignificant matters. [2]
He was anxious there should be no delay, but he must not be rash. [11]
Every now and then she perceived that his eye rested on her with a compassionate expression, and when she inquired whether he were anxious about the sufferer, he gave her some evasive answer, quite unlike his usual decisive speech. [10]

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