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More "Avid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... word Parish turned and went toward the well and the visitor's eyes lit again to their avid hunger as he ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... at the idea of a botanising expedition, though she cared as little for botany as she did for Hebrew. But when a young lady of large aspirations is compelled to vegetate in a village—even after her presentation at court and introduction into society—she is naturally avid for the society of the one ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... dice rattled in the boxes; those who stood around pressed closer round the gamesters; hot, avid faces, covered with sweat and grime, peered eagerly ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... you must be the new owner up to the Michell place," she observed, her beady, faded brown eyes busy with my appearance, picking up details in avid, darting little glances suggestive of a bird pecking crumbs. "Cliff Brown said a lame feller had bought it. I don't see as that little limp cripples you much, the way you can rampus 'round in that fast automobile of yours! ...
— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram
... direction of the town, according Trentman the scant courtesy of a careless wave of the hand at parting. He had counted his money, examined the borrowed pistols, and at the last moment had hurriedly dashed off a brief letter to Kenneth Gwynne, to be posted the following day by the avid though obliging ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... of General Foch's intentions to leave the bombardment of the cathedral unrevenged. He had, indeed, caused an unparalleled slaughter on the night of September 19, 1914, as has been stated, but his troops were avid for reprisal and the French strategist knew well how dangerous it is to allow an army, eager for action and revenge, to eat its heart out vainly. He was too wise to run the risk of a countercharge, but four days later his opportunity came, and he took advantage ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... his subordinate curtly and reached for a phone. And his words over that instrument brought a quick conference of officers and a quiet man whom McGuire did not recognize. The "brass hats," as Blake had foreseen, were avid for details. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
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