Await

Examples

• The next morning after the capture of Petersburg, I telegraphed Mr. Lincoln asking him to ride out there and see me, while I would await his arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The change that I await here is the great change. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Therein that first classe I was, thence I had been watching him; but there I could not find courage to await his approach. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The 4th infantry went into camp at Salubrity in the month of May, 1844, with instructions, as I have said, to await further orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• If she would speak with me I but await her command. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Pardon, succour, and brotherly love await your repentance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I said that I would without delay set out for that place, but entreated her to join her brother, and there await my return with the children. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Colonel and the Inspector were awaiting us in the parlor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She went into her mother's bed-room, just behind the drawing-room, and paced it up and down, while awaiting the doctor's coming out. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I sat down beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, however long he might be. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You found her well and awaiting you? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• That being the terminus of his railroad communications, it is probable he was directed to remain there awaiting orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Judges had now been two hours in the lists, awaiting in vain the appearance of a champion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We locked every door on the inside and awaited developments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was to be told (said Monseigneur) that supper awaited him then and there, and that he was prayed to come to it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They awaited her perfect recovery in silence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I succeeded to his connection, and had every reason to feel grateful for the prospect that awaited me at my starting in life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Having performed this friendly office, he fixed his eyes on the Jew's face, and awaited his directions. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Everybody awaited the decision. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Bucket, satisfied, expresses high approval and awaits her coming at the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Much of this early Turkish material still awaits examination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There she stands, pointing to a rude image of the Virgin Mary, see if she can avert the fate that awaits thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A cruiser awaits above at your own dock; let us leave at-- A fusillade of shots from the palace gardens just without cut short his further words. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He patiently awaits an explicit answer; and Jo, more baffled by his patience than by anything else, at last desperately whispers a name in his ear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And now that we know what they are like there is no difficulty in tracing out the sort of life which awaits either of them. Plato. The Republic.
• The gallows awaits him, and I would do nothing to save him from it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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