Thesaurus / expectance
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
In expectance of two words of you this morning I venture to offer you my best wishes for the future.
That patience is no mere passive endurance without murmuring, but implies tension of expectance.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE PSALMS, VOL. 1A. MACLAREN
"No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something.
ANNIE KILBURNWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Mrs. Munger prompted, with an increase of expectance in her large clear eyes, and of impartiality in her whole face.
ANNIE KILBURNWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
By desire, by expectance, by petition, by faithful stewardship.
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTUREALEXANDER MACLAREN
They're upon the last sound; but our expectance of that great Count, whose desires are winged for us, foreflow our entry.
A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYSROBERT DODSLEY
The word which he employs, by its very form, expresses that that expectance is habitual and continuous.
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTUREALEXANDER MACLAREN