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
He said "Now" with a little sucking in of breath and a thin anticipant smile and spun on his heel.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
His gaze troubled her, and when he withdrew his eyes she looked at him, anticipant and fearing.
From Spring Days by George (George Augustus) Moore
Motion stirred there; the pair of them laughed like anticipant children when two wide-winged moths swam into sight and floated toward them, eyes glowing like veiled emeralds.
From Pet Farm by Roger D. Aycock
Inside the great temple the people of Nedra were singing and chanting with anticipant joy; outside the world was smiling benignly.
From Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon
