Значения термина seize with avidity на английском

Thus, you see, it is but natural that I should seize with avidity upon this opportunity.

She nursed her with unremitting care, and seemed to seize with avidity the temporary opportunity of escaping from herself.

When the time came he was a prepared man -ready to seize with avidity every opportunity that presented itself.

The other ports of Massachusetts did not seize with avidity the opportunity for plunder afforded them by the humiliation of Boston.

The first she seized with avidity, the last passed her ear unheeded.

Keith pondered, his alert mind seizing with avidity on this new and interesting situation.

He seized with avidity the opportunity the Mexican war presented, and there greatly distinguished himself.

It was a mode of shining and acquiring popularity; a fashion which the young seized with avidity.

The press throughout the country seized with avidity on any thing that helped to fill its columns.

He had thought the terms suggested very generous and had expected them to be seized with avidity.

On every real and every reported and every imaginary act of Spanish harshness the Patriots seized with avidity.

The chance to get away even for a brief period from our depressing and monotonous surroundings was seized with avidity.

Fredegonde seized with avidity upon this occasion for persecuting her rival and destroying her step-son, heir to the throne of Chilperic.

Meantime Lord St. Erme talked to the little artist, giving her some valuable hints, which she seized with avidity, and then quietly retreated.

But human laziness so loves formulas, so hates distinctions, that extreme and unmodified expressions are seized with avidity by injudicious friends and exulting foes.