Lord Martin, though his organs were not formed to delight in beauty at the first hand, was yet tickled with the conceit of carrying off so fair a prize from the midst of a thousand gaping expectants.

History is a perpetual surprise, ever developing results of which men were the agents without being the expectants.

She heard a sparrow pertly cry, She smelt the new-mown hay, She felt the sunshine in the sky, As lightly she went skipping by, A-down the sunny way 'Twas like a holiday, The keen, expectant sparkle in her eye.

From Mayfair down along the Strand To Covent Garden's light, Where Master David Garrick acts In a new rôle to-night, The swinging sedan takes its way, And with expectant air Belinda fans, and wonders who To-night there will be there.

And when she paused finally, it was in triumph, with body erect and head thrown back, expectant, waiting.

Thus, they, with lightest step, expectant stood Within this lovely spot beneath the wood.

The Sar now eyes the maidens, while they gaze; Thus they expectant wait, while he surveys.

Many of them were lawful expectants of illegally delayed fortunes, and at the very least they always drank romantically.

I took her hand, I held a warning finger to my lips, And whispered in her small expectant ear, "Adeb, the son of Akem!"

Thirty thousand of them, at least, expectants, or thinking themselves worthy of office.

The sea had subsided to such a state of utter rest that it was only at long intervals that the huge and helpless mass, on which the ark of the expectants lay, was lifted from its dull quietude, to roll heavily, for a moment in the washing waters, and then to settle lower into the greedy and absorbing element.

We have been talking of the contemporary mass; but this is not all; a great original writer of a philosophic turnespecially a poetwill almost always have the fashionable world also against him at first, because he does not give the sort of pleasure expected of him at the time, and because, not contented with that, he is sure, by precept or example, to show a contempt for the taste and judgment of the expectants.

It was impossible to repress the effervescence of the little expectants.

It was impossible to repress the effervescence of the little expectants.

Persons who are very rich, and have no legal heirs, may entertain themselves very much at the expense of hungry expectants and lean legacy-hunters.

She admitted his visits, enjoyed for five years the happiness of keeping all her expectants in perpetual alarms, and amused herself with the various stratagems which were practised to disengage her affections.

A bustle, like that which usually precedes the immediate announcement of any long attended event, took place among the weary expectants on the land, and every one now felt certain, that, what ever might have occurred, it was settled that the ship should proceed.

The sea had subsided to such a state of utter rest, that it was only at long intervals that the huge and helpless mass on which the ark of the expectants lay was lifted from its dull quietude, to roll heavily, for a moment, in the washing waters, and then to settle lower into the greedy and absorbing element.

The capital offers so many real, and still more, so many plausible attractions to all that is active and refined, as well as to all that is idle and selfish in human nature, that a long list of supernumaries and expectants is sure, in every case, always to be at hand.

Wherein there is so much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustrations, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion.

Dryden, among other expectants, chose the more honourable of these themes; and in the "Threnodia Augustalis," at once paid a tribute to the memory of the deceased monarch, and decently solicited the attention of his successor.

When so many gave, and when the servants of every hotel expected a gift, a man must feel shabby to go away without dropping a few pennies into the hands of eager expectants who almost claimed the gratuity as a right.

The King's recovery before the Regency Act was passed will be another great advantage to the Prince; his hands would have been so shackled, that he could not have found places for half the expectants, who will now impute their disappointments to the King's amendment, and not to the Prince.

The young commander was not deceived; for a light cutter, that played like a bubble on its element; was soon approaching the shore, where the three expectants were seated.

We should feel towards such persons (evidently, as the good Bishop implies, without reference to any particular church order) all sympathy and kindness as members of the same great spiritual family on earth, expectants of meeting in heaven in the presence of God and of the Lamb, and of joining in the worship of saints and angels round the throne.