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Usage examples of expecting.

At once he gained a little practice, pettifogging before a justice of the peace for friends, without expecting a fee.

The result of the election had hardly been declared when the disunion movement in the South, long threatened and carefully planned and prepared, broke out in the shape of open revolt, and nearly a month before Lincoln could be inaugurated as President of the United States seven Southern States had adopted ordinances of secession, formed an independent confederacy, framed a constitution for it, and elected Jefferson Davis its president, expecting the other slaveholding States soon to join them.

If any came expecting the turgid eloquence or the ribaldry of the frontier, they must have been startled at the earnest and sincere purity of his utterances.

Hence it would be very rational for men expecting such a decision to keep the niche in that law clear for it.

I hope, therefore, if there be anything that he has said upon which you would like to hear something from me, but which I omit to comment upon, you will bear in mind that it would be expecting an impossibility for me to go over his whole ground.

He knows he was then expecting from day to day to turn Republican, and place himself at the head of our organization.

It is believed that some high officers are in the plot I have already been obliged to disarm several of these organizations, and I am daily expecting more serious outbreaks.

Why, the rebel soldiers are praying with a great deal more earnestness, I fear, than our own troops, and expecting God to favor their side: for one of our soldiers who had been taken prisoner told Senator Wilson a few days since that he met nothing so discouraging as the evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT: Not expecting to see you before the spring campaign opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it.

I was not expecting you to send me a letter, but to bring me a man, or men.

She reached to her chest and clasped the amulet beneath her dress, expecting to feel its ruby cold with death.

He lifted his head from the pillow, expecting it to jolt him with pain, but again there was nothing but a warmth coursing through his body.

He raised away from her, recovering his sensibilities, expecting to find cravat and shirtfront ruined, finding instead to his pleased surprise that Jane had fixed a bib around his shoulders in time to save his clothing.

She was expecting him, however, and generously took him into her mouth, where he fountained with pressure sufficient for a three-foot jet had it been free to fly.

It moves so suddenly that from six feet away it could capture me before I could so much as twitch, even though I was expecting the attempt.