But is it not irritating to be sitting under your favourite tree, pencil in hand, and eyes turned skywards expectant of the spark from heaven that never falls, and then to have a man appear suddenly round the corner who immediately begins quite close to you to tear up the earth with his fangs? No one will ever know the number of what I believe are technically known as winged words that I have missed bringing down through interruptions of this kind Under their expectant eyes, the hatch started opening slowly towards the inside, while a faint hiss of air escaping from inside could be heard through their spacesuits’ microphones Leaning forward with his elbows on the table, the Pastor looked around at expectant faces before saying, “We know Arakiel claims the Golan Heights is very important to the Uronian mission

EXPECTANCY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary EXPECTANCY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

But expectant faith will ever keep the hope-door of man's soul open for the entrance of the eternal spiritual realities of the divine values of the worlds beyond His face was expectant, encouraged by her words, but he still needed the guarantee, the motion that would make it completely true He noticed Amonas’ was looking at him with an aggravated, expectant look, and answered him in an excusatory tone:

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The new Raven was laid on the slips and as the days passed the skeleton began to take shape, with Coatl and the crew fussing over her like expectant midwives

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Nancy Laplante, followed by a few television cameramen and a small army of photographers, was going slowly down the line of expectant spectators, distributing cards and autographs and chatting with her fans, while a young woman that must have been hired by the Marvel Studios carried for her a box full of She-Hulk cards Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts, but above all let us be expectant, because that After all, what expectant mother wants to be jostled? I didn’t know whether my passenger was impressed or not, as she maintained a sphinx-like stillness and silence the entire ride All heads turned as her colleague’s focused on the beauty, their faces expectant and hungry for a titillating personal disclosure Following an expectant silence Sir Alex Clegg’s blank stare was broken by his eye movement as the lids came together one time then froze in their previous positionFarah ‘B’ looked around the expectant faces of the members of the council, trying to gauge them, before speaking again Then I repeated the story about the expectant parson, adding to my guilt by laying stress on the inevitability of the expedition owing to its having been planned weeks before He swallowed the expectant saliva, reflecting that his mouth had been worse than this after a night on the booze at uni … Like the first hint of a distant thunderstorm, the air was vibrant and expectant with distant concussions, so faint that we could only feel them However, raising Rau's hopes, as some literary luminaries projected themselves as Man Fridays of the budding authors; he became expectant and felt the world of writing was not all that rough

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They were expectant, fearful, and profoundly affected by a certain feeling of detachment growing out of the Master's sudden change of tactics, coupled with his instruction that they were to engage in no public teaching throughout this Passover week Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts but above all let us be expectant because that which is promised to us shall come I took him for a drive in the afternoon, after having vainly urged him to rest, and while he told me about his horses, and his regiment, and his brother officers, in what at last grew to be a decidedly intermittent prattle, I amused myself by wondering what he would say if I suddenly began to hold forth on the themes I love best, and insist that he should note the beauty of the trees as they stood that afternoon expectant, with all their little buds only waiting for the one warm shower to burst into the glory of young summer Each noticed the other’s expectant glances to the telephone, yet they held their tongues, afraid even to consider the possibilities Georgie was looking for help with the management of her Quebec office and when she heard about Melissa's office experience she was anxious to see if the expectant mother could find time to help

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Being comformicated by reward-based game learning and living, we will become not only more wanting of reward and less content with self-creation, but also more expectant of reward, no matter how varied its delivery method might be to maintain our nunique span of focus Many of the cures effected by Jesus in connection with his ministry in behalf of Elman's patients did, indeed, appear to resemble the working of miracles, but we were instructed that they were only just such transformations of mind and spirit as may occur in the experience of expectant and faith-dominated persons who are under the immediate and inspirational influence of a strong, positive, and beneficent personality whose ministry banishes fear and destroys anxiety