His books were received and read with avidity. From LearnThat.org. [Milward.]
She herself was no exception to this reluctance: Rieff emphasizes that she hated talking about death and "loved living," had an "avidity" for life. From Wordnik.com. [Will to Live] Reference
This seems so likely that they will seize upon it with avidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
He drank with avidity; tried to sit up, but fell back exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The avidity of the treasury puts fresh restraints upon industry. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
I began to read detective stories, with all the avidity of a Western. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Thackeray with avidity; went now and then to the opera; proposed to let. From Wordnik.com. [A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother"] Reference
Yet he wished to listen to her, and already he was listening with avidity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Bathing is a strenuous sport pursued by almost every individual with avidity. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
"Cruikshankiana" are sought with avidity, in whatever numerous volumes they adorn. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
They threw off with avidity most of the shackles which prevented their joining in general. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Haven Woods picnic, and had proceeded to circulate the news with the avidity of her class. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Arthur seized with as much avidity as Max had evinced in appropriating the cooking utensils. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
On the contrary, it would have been seized upon with avidity and preserved with anxious care. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
It was a mode of shining and acquiring popularity; a fashion which the young seized with avidity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
No book has been more generally sought after or read with greater avidity than "Plutarch's Lives.". From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
His letters were read with great avidity, and were replete with wit, humor, and interesting anecdote. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
Dakianos again examined these riches with more avidity, and his eyes were still further dazzled by them. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Elfreda pounced upon the proffered letter with avidity, while Grace continued with her own correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
I am eager for next Sunday's article, and as long as these papers continue I shall read them with avidity. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Only one had, for several minutes, expressed the joy of crime and the avidity of ultimately satisfied hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Open the whole width of the field of life to her, and she will choose with avidity her own appropriate place. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
It was astonishing with what avidity he read the limited number of books which the convent bookcase contained. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
The former would take it with great avidity, and the benefit to health resulting therefrom would be incalculable. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The paper was read with avidity by the middle and lower classes, and the Negroes soon regarded Ollier as their champion. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
To the period of avidity had succeeded, as it frequently does with those formidable handlers of money, the period of vanity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But our tastes agreed perfectly in that matter, and we had always read with avidity everything we could find on the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Becoming averse to the profession of arms, he studied with avidity law, medicine, philosophy, and languages, and in 1509 became. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
They live in repose, retired from broils abroad, void of avidity to possess more, free from a spirit of domineering over others. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
The farmer devoured it with great avidity, and on the following day he was successful in his pursuit and caught the fair damsels. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
I did not take hold of my studies with avidity, in fact I rarely ever read over a lesson the second time during my entire cadetship. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"Behold! what a fine and fat animal!" and they immediately ran and pulled off pieces of the whitest fat, which they ate with avidity. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
It was his private life, which his former constituents have watched with all the avidity of a soaps addict tuning in to “All My Children.”. From Wordnik.com. [Disinvited To The Party] Reference
The spring grass, now tender and nutritious, was cropped with avidity by the horses, and after a halt of two hours, they again pursued their journey. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
They keep the dried bodies of a variety of birds for medical purposes; mongoose, squirrels and flying-foxes they eat with avidity as articles of luxury. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The collectors of books, whose early avidity to amass libraries of fine editions was phenomenal, rarely persist in cultivating the passion through life. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Books kept in any basement room, or near any wall, absorb moisture with avidity; both paper and bindings becoming mildewed, and often covered with blue mould. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
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