What is "expects"

Usage examples of "expects".

She may be endowed with many virtues, but she has not the only one which could prevent me from wishing the reward which every man expects to receive at the hands of the woman he loves.

A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life.

Again, it is a singular omission in this message that it nowhere intimates when the President expects the war to terminate.

This being so, and this decision being made one of the points that the Judge approved, and one in the approval of which he says he means to keep me down,--put me down I should not say, for I have never been up,--he says he is in favor of it, and sticks to it, and expects to win his battle on that decision, which says that there is no such thing as squatter sovereignty, but that any one man may take slaves into a Territory, and all the other men in the Territory may be opposed to it, and yet by reason of the Constitution they cannot prohibit it.

And I say here to you, if any one expects of me--in case of my election--that I will do anything not signified by our Republican platform and my answers here to-day, I tell you very frankly that person will be deceived.

He expects you to maintain your position there as becomes a soldier and a general.

As this government expects redress from other powers when similar injuries are inflicted by persons in their service upon citizens of the United States, we must be prepared to do justice to foreigners.

In the green he took her hand again, this time with no sensation beyond that which a man reasonably expects upon contact with the female.

Trina expects very soon to coax the juice from Michael, a proceeding in which I have a strong vicarious interest.

Half way down this next block is where the driver expects us to get out.

I am sorry to say my husband expects to obtain judgment in the course of this week, and then the short instants of happiness will for ever be lost to me.

Yet only a fool expects troubles to be over because he is tired of them.

He would not risk quarrelling with the Court from which he expects to receive more than 12,000,000 francs.

The King expects that your Majesty will explain the reasons which have induced you to act in a manner so contrary to the faith of existing treaties.

Caulaincourt, he expects you, and directions will be given to admit you immediately.