Expecting

Examples

• Ah, Hopkins, I got your wire last night, and I have been expecting you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was certainly very far from expecting them to make so strong an impression. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Oh dear,' said Mrs. Leo Hunter, 'how anxiously I have been expecting him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Caroline came, expecting, as Shirley did, a lecture on not having been visible at church. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The emperor and his whole court stood on the shore, expecting the issue of this great adventure. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It was only what he had been expecting to hear at any time during the months of his work, but nevertheless he was amazed when he did catch the sound. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You are expecting a letter, then? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Why, said the lady, with much affectation, you see I was daily, nay hourly, expecting to get settled in life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You are expecting her again, you say, this morning? Jane Austen. Emma.
• I often walked past it afterwards, and never for a long time without thinking of him and half expecting to meet him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They are now expecting their harvest, and are reinforced with the soldiers that escaped from Torquilstone. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Celia is expecting me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The lioness was intently watching Tarzan, evidently expecting him to return to shore, but this the boy had no intention of doing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• At present, and until something turns up (which I am, I may say, hourly expecting), I have nothing to bestow but advice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Celia at this time was on a second visit to Lowick, probably the last before her marriage, and was in the drawing-room expecting Sir James. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Expecting to see the remainder of the band Eustacia turned; but no--Clym Yeobright came out as softly as she had done, and closed the door behind him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Miss Havisham will soon be expecting you at your old post, though I think that might be laid aside now, with other old belongings. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But, however, the poor fellows in the ditch will be expecting help with some impatience. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He replied that he would give a dollar, not expecting that by any means the bees could be brought down. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He paused, expecting some sort of explanation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had been right in expecting the party at Mrs. Carfry's to be a small one. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I believed you to be wishing, expecting my addresses. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• There is always a look of fear upon her face--a look as if she were waiting and expecting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I suppose now, returns that officer, YOU will be expecting a twenty-pound note or a present of about that figure? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Thornton had sat in the dining-room all day, every moment expecting the news of her son's acceptance by Miss Hale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I kept expecting that Miss Scatcherd would praise her attention; but, instead of that, she suddenly cried out-- You dirty, disagreeable girl! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Fanny found that it was not to be, and in the modesty of her nature immediately felt that she had been unreasonable in expecting it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I waited, expecting he would say something I could at least comprehend; but his hand was now at his chin, his finger on his lip: he was thinking. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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