Which preposition to use with expectancy

of Occurrences 23%

All the weary expectancy of the last six months was forgotten.

in Occurrences 9%

The reflex of the expectancy in the hearts of the Muslim may be traced in his messages to them.

on Occurrences 7%

There was a smile of expectancy on her lips; her eyes were bright; but when she saw Donnegan her lips pinched in.

for Occurrences 5%

[Illustration: "The terrible howl of the great white wolf"] There was another long period of waiting; our eyes grew weary, filled as they were with shadows and uncertainties in the moonlight, and we turned our ears to the hills, waiting with strained, silent expectancy for the challenge.

as Occurrences 3%

And so, as darkness fell, the Army of the Callahan waited in the strain of mortal expectancy as one man; and Flitter Bill waited, with his horse standing saddled in the barn, ready for swift flight.

about Occurrences 2%

There was no strained air of expectancy about him, and no tedious management of bags.

with Occurrences 2%

It is true that still as formerly the chariot races formed the brilliant finale of the national festivals; and a poet of this period describes very vividly the straining expectancy with which the eyes of the multitude were fastened on the consul, when he was on the point of giving the signal for the chariots to start.

into Occurrences 1%

He swore softly, cast down from feverish expectancy into bewilderment.

from Occurrences 1%

In the year 1826, at the age of thirty-one, Carlyle married Jane Welsh, the only child of a deceased physician of Haddington, who had some little property in expectancy from the profits of a farm in the moorlands of Scotland.

than Occurrences 1%

So that such a title as that of his latest novel, An Autumn Solving (COLLINS), produced in me rather a feeling of familiar expectancy than of surprise.

like Occurrences 1%

Their shuddering subordinates were taking cover at long range, whispering among themselves and crouching in attitudes of dreadful expectancy like men awaiting the explosion of a mine or the cracking of Doom.

Which preposition to use with  expectancy