Expectations

Examples

• It was the only good thing I had done, and the only completed thing I had done, since I was first apprised of my great expectations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If he has any expectations it is due to the fact that I have never wasted money, and I do not propose to begin to do so now. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Fairlie had simply justified my expectations--and there was an end of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• What can the fitness of things mean, if not their fitness to a man's expectations? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the first place: I am the daughter of a gentleman of family, and though my father is not rich, I have expectations from an uncle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In my situation, it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She had deceived his expectations; she had lost his good opinion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Still looking at the fire, he said-- And who pretends to say Fred Vincy hasn't got expectations? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was a comfort to Elizabeth to consider that Jane could not have been wearied by long expectations. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He was 'only a plasterer,' Little Dorrit said, as a caution to him not to form high social expectations of Plornish. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• O expectations founded on the favor of close old gentlemen! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But perhaps your accommodations--your cottage--your furniture--have disappointed your expectations? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This is the end of the first stage of Pip's expectations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There is no knowing what THEY may expect, said the lady, but we are not to think of their expectations: the question is, what you can afford to do. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It has entirely answered my expectations. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But now, at the end of the twenty-four hours, all those firm expectations were upset. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You must know that, although I have used the term 'expectations' more than once, you are not endowed with expectations only. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Similarly, in connection with the storage battery, after having experimented continuously for three years, it was found to fall below his expectations, and its manufacture had to be stopped. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Their rank, fortune, rights, and expectations will always be different. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• This was the first serious opposition the enemy met with, and I am satisfied was the fatal blow to all his expectations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It made me expect good things from you, and you have not disappointed my expectations. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Our expectations of the future grandeur of America are not so magnificent, and, therefore, not so vain and visionary, as you represent them to be. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Actual tests, long continued under very severe conditions, have shown that the construction is right, and fulfils the most sanguine expectations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I have heard a story of a young gentleman who once encouraged flattering expectations, and they did him harm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• General Meade has more than met my most sanguine expectations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But whether Joe knew how poor I was, and how my great expectations had all dissolved, like our own marsh mists before the sun, I could not understand. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But if by any chance he disappointed my expectations and left the country, then I had no time to lose in arming myself to meet him as I best might. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Besides, I wish at once to tell you my wishes and expectations, and then never again to revert to so painful a subject. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Clare