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