anticipant

Example Sentences

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The bride, seeing these two dying animals, and hearing the cries of anticipant ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside the great temple the people of Nedra were singing and chanting with anticipant joy; outside the world was smiling benignly.

From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr

It was mounted on the box seats very high up, where it looked conspicuously happy, and sounded a little hysterical; and it was packed, tight and warm and anticipant into every available seat.

From A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

O meek anticipant of that sure pain Whose sureness gray-hair'd scholars hardly learn!

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

I saw that its thin oval had rounded, the cheeks gained a faint color; animation was in every feature, life anticipant in the eyes.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)