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Example sentences for "lively interest"

  • During his stay in the Low Countries, he was in constant communication with the English cabinet, and took a lively interest in the government of the kingdom.

  • He surrounded himself with scholars and artists, and took a lively interest in their pursuits.

  • Charles the Fifth had always taken a lively interest in the fortunes of his royal kinswoman.

  • I could see that both father and daughter felt a lively interest in me, the instant I gave them reason to believe I was one of better fortunes.

  • As for Susquesus, he must have felt a lively interest in what was going on, but he remained as immovable, and seemingly as unmoved as a rock.

  • The public journals of the larger Northern cities began to take a lively interest in the paramount question of the day, which, without doubt, was the slavery question.

  • They took a lively interest in the cause that had for its ultimate end the freedom of the slave.

  • With a lively interest he now immediately set himself to this work, which nevertheless proceeded but slowly, when the impulse for musical composition assumed again its mastery.

  • I have often passed the evening previously and subsequently to a race, in which many of the men present took a lively interest, without ever hearing it made the subject of conversation.

  • If your face had not inspired me with a lively interest in you, I should have only felt ordinary compassion on reading your appeal, and this would not have been enough to force me to great sacrifices of time and trouble.

  • I guessed something of her secret, and begged pardon; and for more than an hour I remain silent, pretending to gaze at the scenery, but in reality thinking of her, for she began to inspire me with a lively interest.

  • I take a lively interest in you, trust in me, and I promise you that you shall communicate with whom you please.

  • All the amateurs have taken a lively interest in the affair.

  • You know what a sincere pleasure it always is to me to see you again, and what a lively interest I take in your new works.

  • To the expiration of this pledge, Barclay had never ceased, from the moment it was taken, to look forward with a lively interest.

  • Anna asked, with a lively interest in her tone.

  • Thory Gage Gardiner, who from time to time administered the Sacrament to Miss Nightingale in her room, and in whose work in South London she came to take a lively interest.

  • She took a lively interest in the Zenana mission.

  • After his death, she took for some years a lively interest in the management of the Gordon Boys' Home.

  • Uncle Jerry, turning around with a lively interest in this gentle little woman.

  • If they did not feel that they deserved it, they regarded it as a valuable contribution to the study of sociology and race characteristics, in which they have taken a lively interest of late.

  • It was calculated to lend a lively interest to the narration, and would be invaluable as an advertisement of the adventure.

  • They told us yes, in the piazza, so we went on, making our way with difficulty through the crowded streets; every one taking a lively interest in the auto.

  • The States General took the most lively interest in the warlike movements in Germany, on which the Elector of Brandenburg also set his hopes.

  • In his Britannia, which gives a more complete and instructive picture of the country than any other work, they all took a lively interest.

  • The Venetians always affirmed that the lively interest of the King of England in their cause had already, by provoking the jealousy of the French, strengthened their resolution to arrange these disputes in conjunction with Spain.

  • It found a ready champion in Senator Morgan of Alabama, who had for years taken a lively interest in the canal question and who had strong convictions as to the superiority of the Nicaragua route.

  • Doubtless his association with scouts and camp-followers, largely consisting of fur-traders and frontiersmen, induced a lively interest in their accounts of the western country held by their enemies, the Indian and the Frenchman.

  • The humblest of its citizens had taken a lively interest in the issue of this journey.

  • To the last he maintained a lively interest in Arctic exploration, and ever and again he favored polar research, always with an alternative scheme of his old harbor, Foulke fiord, as the base of operations.

  • Wolfgang took a lively interest in all this youthful talent.

  • To this was added his connection with Weisse, who during his residence in Paris had taken a lively interest in the comic opera, and had exerted himself to transplant it into Germany.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bearing date; criminal justice; decided advantage; dress uniform; fine house; important part; lively faith; lively interest; make himself; organic acids; other buildings; person have; purely chemical; quite fresh; right bank; shall desire; she thinks; slavery itself; social rank; white stripe; who had been sent; will punish; you have been told