Waiting was the hardest thing to do.

Waiting is also that island of anguish, Destined to crush thy proud spirit at last, Doomed amid pigmy tormentors to languish, Facing forever its measureless past!

"Earth waits for her queen" was a favorite motto of Margaret Fuller's; but it would be more correct to say that the queen has waited for her earth, till it could be smoothed and prepared for her occupancy.

Waiting is never an agreeable employment.

Waiting was weary work when the bliss of a lifetime trembled in the balance; and yet he did not want to be impatient.

And children still in the Gate Crowd and cry, A multitude desolate, Voices that float and wait As the tears run dry: 'Mother, alone on the shore They drive me, far from thee: Lo, the dip of the oar, The black hull on the sea! Is it the Isle Immortal, Salamis, waits for me?

Waiting had become a habit, an occupation.

There are signs of water sky to the south, and I'm impatient to be off, but still one feels that waiting may be good policy, and I should certainly contemplate waiting some time longer if it weren't for the ponies.

The long waiting had become almost a nightmare.

I was very keen on seeing again the old place where in my young days I used to spend such happy months, and my enforced waiting soon became almost intolerable boredom.

' 'In a year or two I am convinced we shall flourish again; but the waiting, Alick, the waiting, is the trial.

" It was harder for the boys to give it up than for Mr. Foster, and the waiting till to-morrow looked a little dreary.

The seconds for them seemed an eternity, the obsession of waiting was like lead on their brains.