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keenly

/ˈkiːnli/ adverb C1
  1. In a keen manner. · watch something keenly· We played keenly.
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“Ah,” said Anthony, keenly; “what’s her name?”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 10 · C1
I was pained at the mistake, for I knew how keenly Holmes would feel any slip of the kind.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 42 · B2
Holmes was silent and motionless; but I could tell that he was keenly alert, and that his eyes were fixed intently upon the stream of passers-by.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 20 · C1
Holmes looked keenly at him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 68 · C1

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