They had no remarkable gifts which might have led us to anticipate this unique destiny.
Now, in saying this, weanticipate a very probable objection.
Little did the jailor know whom he was thrusting into the inner prison--little did he anticipate what was to happen ere another sun should rise.
I trembled for Susquesus; though I knew he must anticipate a pursuit, and was so well skilled in throwing off a chase as to have obtained the name of the Trackless.
I will not anticipate the result of your schooling; but, go to school.
The king took such undisguised pleasure in his new granddaughter's company, that some of the most experienced courtiers began to anticipate that she would soon gain entire influence over him[6].
And men still grope t' anticipate The cabinet designs of Fate; Apply to wizards to foresee What shall and what shall never be.
He did not anticipate any danger from the southern shore, but the old inherited caution of the forest runners was strong within him.
Grant himself was appalled, and the North, which had begun to anticipate a quick and victorious end of the war, concealed its disappointment as best it could, and prepared for another campaign.
Azgid thought he had never in his life seen so fine an animal; and when he mounted him he found him so gentle and docile as scarcely to require any management, for the intelligent creature seemed to anticipate all his wishes.
I continued in the hall, where a great number of slaves were attentive to every motion and ready to anticipate every wish.
The Baron, egged on by his friend's high spirits and his own imagination to anticipate pleasure upon pleasure, watched with rapture the summer landscape whiz past the windows.
We cannot anticipate or analyse the power of a pure and holy life; but there can be no doubt about its reality, and there seems no limit to its range.
Therefore never anticipate trouble, make as little of its presence as possible, forget it as soon as past.
It may not be unnecessary to anticipate an objection to which these conversations may sometimes be thought liable.
Our wisdom would be to anticipate the wants of middle life, to lay in a store of notions, ideas, principles, and habits, which may preserve or transfer to the mind that affection which was at first partly attracted by the person.
He knew Charles's delicate appreciation of music, and could confidently anticipate that her voice would satisfy him and win his interest.
The hopes that were at one time entertained by physiologists, that potatoes raised from the seed might be free from the infection, had entirely vanished, and there was every reason to anticipate a failure of the plant itself.
I think it was fine that he should anticipate all Westminster Abbey honours, and determine to be laid where he was born, among his own kindred, and with all the simple and dignified obsequies of (I suppose) his own old Puritan Church.
You anticipate rightly all I think of the new Idylls.
MY DEAR SIR ('Norton' I will write in my next if you will anticipate me by a reciprocal Familiarity).
It was Father Benedictus, who had set out early to anticipate Heinz and surprise him in his night quarters by his presence.
When Eva greeted the reunited pair they had already poured forth to each other the events which had driven them to the verge of despair, and which now once more permitted them with budding hope to anticipate new happiness.
And, in so doing, you only anticipate the step which I intended to take with more cogent motives," replied Casper Eysvogel with cool composure, shrugging his shoulders contemptuously.
Els had concealed from her parents what she fancied she had discovered, for any anxiety injured the invalid, and no one couldanticipate how her irritable father might receive the information of her fear.
If this novel does not bring me the fame you anticipate I shall not much care; I have lost some of my ambitions.
Hannibal moved about the girl like her very shadow, ready to anticipate her slightest wants, while Daisy seemed to take this excess of attention as a matter of course.
From the moment war was proclaimed, the Peruvian monarch used all possible expedition in assembling his forces, that he mightanticipate the movements of his enemies, and prevent a combination with their allies.
But the latter were wary enough to anticipate this movement, and Almagro defeated it by seizing all the letters in the vessels, and thus cutting off at once the means of communication with their friends at home.
It may be counted mere madness to anticipate astonishment, or go in search of a surprise.
But that is to anticipate what happened later and must be considered later.
It is no use trying to do anything for her beyond paying her allowance weekly, and absolutely refusing to let her anticipate it.
As a result of its inability to anticipate General Byng's movements, the German fighting machine naturally lost some of its efficiency.
Besides, our aeroplanes are more active than usual, probably to keep the enemy back so they can't anticipate the attack.
Peter, how I anticipatethe rapture of that moment!
Encouraged by the results obtained in Mindoro, I have inaugurated an active campaign to compel these people to clean up, and anticipate success.
We did not anticipate the good fortune of discovering either a unicorn or a cyclops, but thought that there must be something behind all of these remarkable stories.
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