Expected

Examples

• Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was a surprise: they had not expected the Englishwoman would play in a _vaudeville_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• That was to be expected of a man of his merits. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was expected in case of necessity to connect these forts by rifle-pits. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She had hardly expected it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Much is now expected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There's no patient expected. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Elinor submitted to the arrangement which counteracted her wishes with less reluctance than she had expected to feel. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But his spirits were soon rising again, and with laughing eyes, after mentioning the expected return of the Campbells, he named the name of Dixon. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As was to be expected, the card index and electrically operated features caused thousands of concerns, large and small, to adopt the addressograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He started at daylight the next morning, and accomplished more than was expected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Miss Ophelia did not exactly know what she was expected to answer to this. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He expected a start, a look of depreciation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• How could it be expected to undertake it when the undertaking meant its own destruction? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She ultimately prevailed; and all-conquering Fife was expected with rapture. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But now, sincerely, do not you find the place altogether worse than you expected? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Bingley met them with hopes that Mrs. Bennet had not found Miss Bennet worse than she expected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He told me that I was going on in a very bad way, and asked me whither I expected to go? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• That was Mr. Wildeve who passed, miss, he said slowly, and expressed by his face that he expected her to feel vexed at having been sitting unseen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But fabrics immersed in a bleaching powder solution do not lose their color as would naturally be expected. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This action, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'is expected to come on, on the fourteenth of next month. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I had always expected to become devout. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Do you know that Lord Worcester is expected to bring home the next despatches? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• That it should all go slowly should be expected too; but now he wished to go. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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