Usage examples for zealous
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He was a graduate of West Point, and seems a remarkably zealous officer, besides being very modest and unassuming in his manners. – Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle
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Even your soldiers are not so zealous for death but they fight behind sand- bags. – The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
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The fair damsel with the collar- bones was particularly zealous in pushing him about. – Royal Highness by Thomas Mann