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KEENER

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keener substantiv

(irl.) bocitor, bocitoare (la mort).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

And when he had gone, she would return to her books with a keener zest and fresh store of energy.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I was surprised, and joyfully, that she was so much the woman, and the display of each trait and mannerism that was characteristically feminine gave me keener joy.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I began to understand what my friend meant when he said that his brother possessed even keener faculties that he did himself.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ever keener and sharper was the deadly pain which shot like a red-hot arrow through his side.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How her temper and understanding might bear the investigation of his present keener time of life was another concern and rather a fearful one.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

And now I looked much better than I did when Bessie saw me; I had more colour and more flesh, more life, more vivacity, because I had brighter hopes and keener enjoyments.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

And now I was left with a difficult point to settle, for it was hard for me to say whether it was better that I should do that which I had come for, or whether, by holding this man’s guilty secret, I might not have in my hand a keener and more deadly weapon than my master’s hunting-knife.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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