What is "keener"

Usage examples of "keener".

As a result, he talks to no one, except the canasta players, who are no keener of wit than he.

This terror, which I remember still prevalent both in Mexico and on the pampas of the Argentine Republic, not more than five-and-twenty years ago, was keener upon the confines of the Chaco than anywhere in South America, except, perhaps, in Chile, upon the frontiers of Araucania.

I knew I would be kept below decks until late, chained, that my needs might grow even keener and more frustrated.

In early starlight, because her vision was so much keener than mine, she managed to sniggle two more of the hapless rodents.

Keener than his keen eyes was that marvelously trained sense of scent that had first been developed in him during infancy under the tutorage of his foster mother, Kala, the she-ape, and further sharpened in the grim jungles by that master teacher--the instinct of self-preservation.

The success of my part depended on the manner in which it was played, and my wit has seldom been keener than during this meal.

Only Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, whose every thought since he had met Suzanne de Tournay seemed keener, more gentle, more innately sympathetic, noted the curious look of intense longing, of deep and hopeless passion, with which the inane and flippant Sir Percy followed the retreating figure of his brilliant wife.

An increasing number of the burghers were volunteering for service against their own people, and it was found that all fears as to this delicate experiment were misplaced, and that in the whole army there were no keener and more loyal soldiers.

The birds, sensitive as they were, blissful as it was to share the ecstasy of flight, still had only limited awareness, mostly focused in their keener eyesight.

The greater positiveness of General Blair, the keener popular interest in the Southern question and the broader realization of its possible dangers, made the issue on Reconstruction overshadow the other.

The Cairenes, or native citizens, differ from the fellahin in having a much larger mixture of Arab blood, and are at once keener witted and more conservative than the peasantry.

And then another, keener shock that I tried with all my being to hold back, tried to duck, but it would keep coming: the lost baby, the perfect curledness of it, the packed potential of its being.

She showed herself to be of finer and keener fiber than the sordid demireps with whom he had to do.

With characteristic cunning--a cunning which grows keener and keener in the neighborhood of civilization--the mother-otter filled up the land entrance among the roots with earth and driftweed, using only the doorway under water until it was time for the cubs to come out into the world again.

Dexter had sworn off messianic attempts to save the world after the fiasco of THE TRANSFORMATION, and had developed a far keener and more jaundiced awareness of the Faustian temptation thereof in the years since.