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As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.

He didn't need to wait—as the birds did—until an angleworm stuck his head above ground.

The pig family did not know when Squinty would be taken away from them, and all they could do was to wait.

Janet might have said before leaving: "Tea had better not wait too long--Hilda has to be down at Clayhanger's at half-past six."

And Jimmy thought that if he must wait for him again he would wait in a pleasant place.

He didn't even wait until he had found the opening in which his daughter had appeared.

The knocker appeared to hear the response, and to assert that it was quite impossible he could wait so long.

So it went, the time passed, and he could scarcely wait until the stage reached the little town where he now received his mail.

Wait patiently until your side move over from the Opposition to the Government benches.

Better wait till these county nobs have cleared, I suppose—there goes the last of 'em—now for it!

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OCTOBER 26, 1985