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Meanings of painful eagerness in английском

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Usage of painful eagerness in английском
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Enoch watched Diana's wide gray eyes with a look of painful eagerness.
The Enchanted Canyon
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I listened with painful eagerness, but was unable to distinguish a third signal.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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With an anxious, painful eagerness my father listened to these first outspoken words.
The Bride of Dreams
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She watched him eat with a painful eagerness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 / A Magazin...
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He watched her covertly, with a painful eagerness.
At Love's Cost
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She turned with painful eagerness to Meynell.
The Case of Richard Meynell
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Her sister and her father, though less impatient, marked, with painful eagerness, the first sound of the approaching vehicle.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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Barbara listened with painful eagerness.
The Emancipated
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Tom asked with painful eagerness.
The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
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"You will not wonder," added he, "that I have a painful eagerness to know every circumstance of that lamentable event."
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
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