Anticipated

Examples

• The ideas of Kay, Wyatt and Hargreaves are said to have been anticipated in Italy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Nothing, for you have anticipated my answer. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The parsonage was so altered, both inside and out, that the real pain was less than she had anticipated. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The officiating damsel, who had anticipated the order before it was given, set the glass of spirits before Pell, and retired. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• No door-bell had rung; Rosine--acting doubtless by orders--had anticipated such réveillée. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Bounderby felt that Mrs. Sparsit had audaciously anticipated him, and presumed to be wiser than he. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Another difficulty attending the use of insulated wires buried in the ground arises from a very peculiar condition of electrical conduction, that could scarcely have been anticipated. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Results followed as I had anticipated. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The development was much furthered by a delight in his guest which proved greater even than he had anticipated. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This Parisienne was always in debt; her salary being anticipated, not only in dress, but in perfumes, cosmetics, confectionery, and condiments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The one interpretation that I could put on her conduct has, no doubt, been anticipated by everybody. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The morrow turned out a more lively and busy day than we--or than I, at least--had anticipated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That's the only objection I anticipated. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Her quickness anticipated what I might have said presently but as yet had only thought. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A common interest, it was anticipated, would produce a more than common union of all the powers; yet great is truth, and it will prevail! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• On October 1 Challis heard that the German observer had anticipated him. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In returning to labour in this sequestered spot he had anticipated an escape from the chafing of social necessities; yet behold they were here also. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The present inquiry must be simply shifted (rather sooner than I had anticipated) from this house, to the house at which Miss Verinder is visiting. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I spoke then readily: but a swarm of thoughts I had not anticipated nor invoked, rose dim at the words, making me sigh involuntarily. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This was not the end they had anticipated in their great coming to Jerusalem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To my indescribable surprise, they were escorted, not by Mr. Godfrey (as I had anticipated), but by the lawyer, Mr. Bruff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was anticipated; Madame Beck had put out her own hand: hers was steady while mine trembled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The mechanical development has not only kept pace with public needs, but has anticipated them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You have anticipated the question which I was about to suggeSt. There is no difficulty, I said, in seeing how war will be carried on by them. Plato. The Republic.
• I had intended to make this request, but he anticipated me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In America the new subscriber finds his need anticipated and the facilities provided. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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