What is "avid"

Usage examples of "avid".

She had the broad features common to the Akka people and the broad shoulders of a woman who has tackled a lot of reindeer, and it was hard to tell whether she contemplated those dogs with such an avid gaze because they looked fit to serve her, or to be eaten for supper.

When he tried, rather breathlessly, to compliment me on the avid ardency with which I was embracing him, I bade him hush, for I did not care to hear talk.

The maids, faces avid with curiosity, went away, and Brule poured coffee, and Andy brought a cup of it to Rue.

Ellen looked stricken, Sal avid, and Henry Clift was shaking his head as if at the foolishness of womankind.

The students, true to the mores of the city instead of the dojo, had formed a crowd of avid spectators.

Henry Crawford, a dominant, aged 33, who was an avid spanking enthusiast and enema fetishist.

Communist Russia won the war of symbols: it succeeded for at least a half-century in providing the symbols of Good and Evil to that great army of Esches who are as avid for values as they are incapable of discriminating among them.

Himself an avid lepidopterist, Fyodor had asked his father in 1916 to be allowed to join a further expedition to Tibet, but was refused because of the war.

He put Toughy on the floor and Toughy, with avid yellow eyes, crouched at the foot of the curtains and stared up at them.

Only Tulla, unbeknownst to the grownups, but before our eyes as we looked on with a tightening of the throat, took long avid gulps of the brownish-gray broth in which the coagulated excretion of the kidneys floated sleetlike and mingled with blackish marjoram to form islands.

The serving girl watched them both with avid curiosity as Mathe stopped a few feet away.

I took the time to make sure there were none among your avid audience likely to outswim you.

Transforming and activating the protogenes is probably the easy part, given that every sequencer in the world is avid to learn how to write as well as read the language of the bases.

He had talked of that country once, in tones not untinged with distaste, in the presence of the child, and had been aware of her sudden avid attention.

The ship had been rife with increasingly lurid speculations in avid undertones as we had sailed to Carif and I recalled Naldeth had been the source of some of the wilder tales of turbulent adventure and limitless wealth, far removed from the truths of life as a sword for hire, as Aiten had told it to me.