Some saw him as an impatient man keen to clear all arrears.
"He always struck me as an intelligent and keen young man," said the general.
And he had two weeks and a dozen keen young men to do it.
The new sergeant they've got is a keen man when it comes to setting fire to cottages, too.
There was a keen young man with a shaven head behind the cash register.
Also, be moved his hand so Albersham, the really keen man of the pair, couldn't see the cards at all.
The boy pointed, and Al found himself under the man's keen, observing scrutiny.
They were two of the keenest men on the New York police force.
A keen and perceptive man who abandoned his brother after their mother's death to become a professional player himself.
The keen hawk-faced man with him was his special guard dog, presumably.