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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Eager

Eager as a bridegroom.
—Anonymous

Eager … like a mettlesome hound,
Into the fray with a plunge and a bound.
—John Stuart Blackie

Eager as men, when haply they have heard
Of some new songster, some gay-feathered bird,
That hath o’er blue seas strayed in hope to find
In our thin foliage here a summer home,
Fain would they catch the bright things in their mind,
And cage them into sonnets as they come.
—Frederick William Faber

Eager as a cry for life.
—George Meredith

Eager for it as a hound.
—George Meredith

Eager as greyhound on his game.
—Sir Walter Scott

Eager as hunters in pursuing their prey.
—Sir Walter Scott

Eager as a ghoul for blood.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Eager as a fine-nosed Hound.
—William Wordsworth