Eager Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Eager


Eager as a bridegroom. —Anonymous	1
Eager … like a mettlesome hound, Into the fray with a plunge and a bound. —John Stuart Blackie	2
Eager as men, when haply they have heard Of some new songster, some gay-feathered bird, That hath o’er blue seas strayed in hope to find In our thin foliage here a summer home, Fain would they catch the bright things in their mind, And cage them into sonnets as they come. —Frederick William Faber	3
Eager as a cry for life. —George Meredith	4
Eager for it as a hound. —George Meredith	5
Eager as greyhound on his game. —Sir Walter Scott	6
Eager as hunters in pursuing their prey. —Sir Walter Scott	7
Eager as a ghoul for blood. —William Makepeace Thackeray	8
Eager as a fine-nosed Hound. —William Wordsworth	9