We had, on entering the woods, dispatched our baggage to the former place to await our arrival there.

While awaiting the return of the big bull often we had opportunity to watch the others at their daily affairs, and even the unresponsive Thrackles was struck with their almost human intelligence.

He enters and finds a smiling wife and son, with a smoking pig awaiting his coming.

If you are JOHN SMITH and own a coal mine or an iron mill, you go to Washington, see your Congressman, (by see I mean look at him, of course,) donate large sums of money to certain poor, but honest men, who adorn the lobby of the House, while they are waiting for generous patrons like unto you, then go home and calmly await the result.

"M. de Saint-Pierre writes," he said, "that he cannot discuss the question of territory, since that is quite without his province, but will send my message to the Marquis Duquesne, in command of the French armies in America, at Quebec, and will await his orders.

But if the Society is to await this golden opportunity with such exemplary patience in one case, why not in all?

Now and again he shot a glance, half probing, half sullen, at Gifford, who leaned back against the mantelpiece coolly awaiting his answer.

Abraham could only pass his hand over his brow, uneasily shuffle his maligned heels over the floor and await further developments; for he did not have the slightest conception as to "what they were driving at.

The next day we took Bevins to Boggs' ranch on Picket Wire Creek, and there turned him over to the civil authorities, who put him in a log jail to await his trial.

For now the colonel was tiredphysically outworn, it seemed to him, as if after prolonged exertionand now the moon looked down upon him, passionless, cold, inexorable, and seemed to await the colonel's decision.

Gifford set his teeth hard as the two faced round and awaited Henshaw's approach.

With all these anxieties and his deeply planned coup d'etat awaiting the moment of action, Ella's simple outburst and even Ranelagh's unexpected and somewhat startling suggestion lost much of their significance.

What more?" "Bethink thee, lord, there be divers rogues who, having provoked thy potent anger, do lie even now awaiting thy lordly pleasure.

Tortured by this fear, I awaited events in indescribable agitation.

Steve had complied with the directions, and now awaited the issue with all the fortitude he could command.

He glanced round the curious crowded court and saw the eager glances of the women as they impatiently awaited his reply.

Santa Anna considered it the key to the city, and awaited the attack in perfect confidence with thirty thousand men.

On the eventful night of the Tribune's "first run" our girls were too eager to go home and await its appearance, so they remained at the office to see the birth of their enterprise, and as it was the night preceding the Fourth of July Uncle John gave an exhibition of fireworks in front of the newspaper office, to the delight of the entire population.

But she could give them no comfort, and returned home to await her father's coming.

The living awaited death with a listlessness that was at once tragic and revolting.

What has become of her?" "She is in hiding in Petersburg, awaiting such time as I can get her safely out of Russia," and then, continuing, I explained how she had been maimed and rendered deaf and dumb.

I await thee in the next!

The heaviest trains seemed to run at night, and the returning empty trains were hurried forward at a speed suggesting the urgency of clearing the line for a fully loaded train awaiting at Rafa the signal to proceed with its valuable load to railhead.

The prospect of his own release was, under these circumstances, rather distant, as without special intervention he would have to await his turn, the rule being that those first captured were first exchanged.

So he was enabled to lift up his eyes and his trusting heart to heaven, and to await his expected fate with calmness.