Both Uses of
alacrity
in
The Return of the Native
- The boy, who clearly had had too much of a good thing, marched away into the shadows with alacrity.†
Chpt 1
- Thomasin had been persuaded by her aunt, and by an instinctive impulse of loyalty towards her cousin Clym, to bestir herself on his account with an alacrity unusual in her during these most sorrowful days of her life.
Chpt 2 *alacrity = quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness
Definition:
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(alacrity) quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness