1 They had an avid curiosity about the South and Southern women, and Scarlett gave them their first opportunity to satisfy it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 2 I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III 3 She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet.
4 I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER IV 5 Close beside him stood Charlotte, opening oysters from a barrel: which Mr. Claypole condescended to swallow, with remarkable avidity.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER XXVII 6 My friend rubbed his thin hands together with an appearance of avidity which was a surprise to me, who knew his frugal tastes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 7 The man began to eat with avidity.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 8 It may be judged whether d'Artagnan looked or listened with avidity.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 9 Madame de Villefort listened with avidity to these appalling maxims and horrible paradoxes, delivered by the count with that ironical simplicity which was peculiar to him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 10 But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) ShelleyGet Context In Chapter 2 11 This time the scout seized the rifle with avidity; nor had Magua, though he watched the movements of the marksman with jealous eyes, any further cause for apprehension.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 29