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keenly

/ˈkiːnli/ adverb C1
  1. In a keen manner. · watch something keenly· We played keenly.
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The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him from her little red-rimmed eyes.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 51 · B2
Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 19 · B2
Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 29 · B2
“Ah,” said Anthony, keenly; “what’s her name?”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 10 · C1

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