Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lady, anxious for information; "How much are they, please?" - [Fact...
...that last year you let us whistle for what we wanted, and this year we shall transfer the toot to your hands. and shall sit still listening to the mournful strains which it now becomes your turn to give forth. Ta-ta, Intercollegiate-Press-Associationists, the Acta is not anxious to experience any more frigidity of atmosphere...
...country visitors anxious to be waited...
...Then won't you please take me home before you make your fire? For my father might feel anxious...
...sharp, I was outside the Senate-chamber door, armed with my passport and ready for business. Around me was a crowd of German youths, all loaded down with voluminous documents and looking excessively anxious. After an embarrassing delay we were admitted, but found no one there except the servant who had opened the door and who took our cards as we came in. After we had all entered he came round and gathered up our papers, with which he vanished through a small door in the wall. Another delay ensued, during which I amused myself by studying the frescos...