"Avidly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... women love, and she soon had a variety of frocks as charming as her graceful form demanded. In addition, there were as many of books and magazines as she could wish. Her mind, long starved like her body, seized avidly on the nourishment thus afforded. In this interest, Aggie had no share—was perhaps a little envious over Mary's absorption in printed pages. But for her consolation were the matters of food and dress, and of countless junketings. In such directions, ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... gaze, not aware at the moment that his steel- blue eyes searched her avidly for a hint of more than he stated. "So far as I am concerned—certainly," she said. "I shall never ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... Cohen was wont to read music as other boys read their penny-dreadfuls, avidly, with the imagined sounds like great waves for ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various
... I'm going to give you what's left after I've counted off enough to see me through to Spokane. I feel sick, Pop. I want change of air. And as for riding two fast horses to Crater—" he paused while he counted slowly, Pop licking his lips avidly as he watched,—"why I don't know what you mean. I only ride one horse at a time, Pop, when I'm sober. And I was ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... fell upon his pipe and he seized it avidly. At the table, he had not smoked with Cardington and Parr; he had scarcely eaten. Now, the tobacco brought peculiar relief to his over-wrought mind, and dulled for a few moments the edge of his remorse. In the wavering clouds of smoke he saw her eyes ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... there, all tickets ready,' and first he hands me a glove and neist he hands me a boot and havers o' that kind sich as onybody dreams. But in the middle o' my dream it comes ower me that I had better waken up to see what Gavinia's doing, and I open my een, and there she is, sitting up, hearkening avidly to my every word, and putting sly questions to ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... the cliff was now covered with the crawling blue fire, lapping avidly about with its ten-foot tongues. We drew back, staring silently at each ...
— The Fire People • Ray Cummings |
