Anxiously in example sentence
It was through him, if through any one, that he must possess himself of the Naulahka; he had been anxiously studying him, and shrewdly measuring the situation, and he now believed that he had formed a plan through which he might hope to make himself solid with the Maharajah a plan which, whether it brought him the Naulahka or not, would at least allow him the privilege of staying at Rhatore.