Waits

Examples

• But she keeps her own opinion of me, and waits to see the result. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Come, come, my love, remember who this is who waits to clasp you in his arms, poor child! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Goes on errands fast asleep, and snores as he waits at table. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Here is seen also further proof of the great truth that one invention often waits for another. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I bring a new proposal on the subject:a thought of my father's, which waits only your approbation to be acted upon. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She waits until her husband is asleep, and then she rushes down to endeavor to persuade them to leave her in peace. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The victor, said De Wyvil, still waits the pleasure of your highness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A man-servant has just brought this letter from Lyme Regis, and waits to know if you have any answer to send back, said Eliza. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• During the progress of this keen encounter, the vessel Chadband, being merely engaged in the oil trade, gets aground and waits to be floated off. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And the woman waiting as a whore waits for the flight of the big bird. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Besides, the moon waits on him; her beam, dim and vague as yet, fills the glade where he sits. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She says she might marry him any day: he only waits her consent. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Donne and his guests, as I have said, are at dinner; Mrs. Gale waits on them, but a spark of the hot kitchen fire is in her eye. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He waits downstairs, and runs up to show patients out when I ring the consulting-room bell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• To be sure not, who the devil waits for men? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The bark that waits us hence will be under weigh ere we can reach the port. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• As the fork is allowed to move only just far enough to allow the pin to pass out, it simply waits until the fork returns and enters its place, only to escape again on the other side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He dogs the fellow, he sees him enter a house, he waits outside for him, and in the scuffle he receives his own death-wound. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The doors of the temple are shut; the priest waits at the altar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now men have different natures, and one man will do one thing better than many; and business waits for no man. Plato. The Republic.
• The bad dream waits there to become a reality. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If he waits a little longer he will get no price at all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He waits to walk home with him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Amy does too--I see it in her eyes, though she prudently waits to turn it over in her mind before she speaks. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The nurse pointed to them and said, There is Anne Catherick, ma'am, with the attendant who waits on her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach, nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Of course it has the sort of excitement about it that the sportsman feels when he lies beside the water-course and waits for the big game. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Under old Moscow's walls the rude Cossack waits him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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