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Example sentences for "anticipations"

Lexicographically close words:
anticipate; anticipated; anticipates; anticipating; anticipation; anticipative; anticipatory; antick; anticke; anticlimax
  1. Mother Maddalena, as we are aware, did not consider such anticipations very important.

  2. But on the third day his anticipations were verified--his case grew more serious.

  3. It plays a small part, if any, in subsequent developments, and though enthusiastic explorers claim to find in it anticipations of the details of modern domestic architecture, the evidence produced is unconvincing.

  4. Rudimentary anticipations of the Ionic volute are found in Phoenician capitals, vague reminiscences of what the traders had seen in Egypt and elsewhere.

  5. The invitation was accepted, and the count forgot his disappointment over a plate of turtle-soup, and indulged in delightful anticipations of the next morning which was to render him "Monarch of all he surveyed.

  6. Enough, however, about the anticipations of Barbaroux.

  7. For these reasons, we feel no hesitation in calling the attention of the people of the United States, to a work eminently calculated to awaken the most lofty anticipations of the destiny which awaits them.

  8. The expression of their favourable anticipations might be excused; for they may have believed all that they asserted.

  9. This inward deadening is one of the most terrible consequences of immorality; it is so unexpected, so unlike the anticipations of youthful passion, so stealthy in its approach, so inevitable, so irreparable.

  10. But these passages belong to the very latest years in his life, and they are not connected with any such anticipations as are characteristic of the Thessalonian Apocalypse.

  11. It was when Charles and Henry found their money nearly gone, and the prospect of poverty before them, they felt in all its painful anticipations the prospect of a gloomy and unknown future.

  12. Whilst Madeleine was sitting in the conservatory, musing over the gloomy anticipations her dreams had cast over her thoughts, Louis Marie came towards her.

  13. Danglars made no reply; he was occupied in anticipations of the coming scene between himself and the baroness, whose frowning brow, like that of Olympic Jove, predicted a storm.

  14. The most reasonable anticipations fail us, antecedents the most opposite mislead us, because the conditions of human problems never repeat themselves.

  15. Full of these gratifying anticipations and hopes, let us look forward to the end of that century which is now commenced.

  16. They have been sufficiently numerous to indicate an observant though invisible eye fixed upon human affairs; but not so frequent as to supersede the Christian's anticipations of a day of final and impartial judgment.

  17. But at this time it appeared fruitless to delay longer, and I returned home, filled with anticipations of pleasure from the success of my future researches.

  18. So she closed this mortal scene, and left her blooming prospects, fair estates, and all the bright anticipations of youth, for the lone silence of the tomb.

  19. Nor were Kircher’s anticipations random guesses, but the result of deductions from experiment and observation; and the universality of magnetism is now almost recognised by philosophers.

  20. Then again he would be overwhelmed with anticipations of the frightful economic and social dissolution that might lie ahead.

  21. The first real check to his excessive anticipations of victory for the Allies came with the sudden reappearance of Mr. Direck in a state of astonishment and dismay at Matching's Easy.

  22. Section 8 That day of vast anticipations drew out into the afternoon.

  23. He walked quickly now; for in place of those vague anticipations and reveries, a more definite purpose was forming in his brain; and there was a certain joyousness in the prospect.


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