All 6 Uses of
alacrity
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Yet the excellent dog accepted Tom's attention with as much alacrity as if he had been treated quite generously.†
Chpt 1.6 *alacrity = quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness
- With the dessert there came entire deliverance for Maggie, for the children were told they might have their nuts and wine in the summer-house, since the day was so mild; and they scampered out among the budding bushes of the garden with the alacrity of small animals getting from under a burning glass.†
Chpt 1.7
- Mrs. Tulliver was an amiable fish of this kind, and after running her head against the same resisting medium for thirteen years would go at it again to-day with undulled alacrity.†
Chpt 1.8
- Certainly not Furley, for Mr. Tulliver had determined that Furley should meet his plans with the utmost alacrity; and there are men whoses brains have not yet been dangerously heated by the loss of a lawsuit, who are apt to see in their own interest or desires a motive for other men's actions.†
Chpt 3.1
- As it is, we are reduced to ask services of knights and squires, who do not seem to offer them with great alacrity.†
Chpt 6.13
- But at least they had Dutch cleanliness, which makes all other inconveniences tolerable; and the boat cushions were spread into a couch for Maggie on the poop with all alacrity.†
Chpt 6.13