The utmost caution being used to prevent noise, the manning of the walls was accomplished in silence, and the garrison awaited in, breathless expectation the success of the forces who were rapidly advancing to their relief.
Thus accoutred, and at the head of a glittering and gilded band of retainers, who watched his lightest glance, the Constable of Chester awaited the arrival of the Lady Eveline Berenger, at the gate of her castle of Garde Doloureuse.
For over an hour thereafter he awaitedthe next move in the game.
Should he escape, unarmed as he was, sure death by starvation awaited him in the land of dread.
A Visitor at the Ranch Let us once more go back to the ranch, where Chet and Paul, as well as the newcomer, Noel Urner, anxiouslyawaited Allen's return.
The afternoon wore away, and anxiously the two boysawaited the coming of Allen.
So, in this rather unsympathetic domestic environment, the class Valedictorian, with the kindling of her soul all laid, so to speak, uneasily awaited the divine spark.
Missy shut her eyes, repented violently, and awaited the miracle.
A little appalled, a little abashed, but withal atingle at her own daring, she breathlessly, even hopefully, awaitedhis answer.
It was well that Mr. Dodge could not foresee the trying experience that awaited him before he could sunder the bonds that bound him to the old farm.
It struck him that it might be a very good idea to be sauntering along the road between the academy and the Widow Gordon’s, and, intercepting Andy, give him a hint that something disagreeable awaited him.
I wish you would,” said Brackett, by no means prepared for the reply that awaited him.
They were setting out, perchance, to battle face to face with death, and realized to the utmost all the dangers and the suffering which awaited them.
Mr. Downey, and then, placing the receiver to his ear, he awaited the message.
He believed he was about to remove his beloved child for ever from these gloomy walls, and with painful impatience he awaited her coming.
The room was deserted and cold; no books or work gave it the look of habitation; abandoned by its last occupants, it awaited new ones.
A bird, hidden in the foliage, piped an amorous note, and the student, cradled in his skiff, awaited his love.
Annunciata covered her face with her hands, and awaited in an agony of anxiety her husband's reply.
Unwilling to follow them, and risk meeting my bugbear, I awaited their return, which was to take place to a late dinner.
His wife, her hand resting on the back of an arm-chair, silently awaited his pleasure.
In her Diary she describes the feelings that swayed her while she awaited a reply to her missives: "September 16th--Morning.
Her Diary describes her sensations of suspense as she awaited a reply from the Duke, and "the Scriptures" with which she fortified her position.
And, since he wanted her to listen, she put aside her distress and the thought of the loneliness which awaited her and obeyed him.
She had made it so plain that she preferred for her child and herself an appalling death beneath the bricks than the slower decline into misery which awaited them.
I was going to stay for a week with--" and as she compared the summer which she had planned with that which awaited her, she stopped, lest the choking of her voice should betray her.
When the English engineers levelled the ground, and wheeled the heavy machine against the walls, and the miners were waiting, pick in hand, to fall to work, the contending warriors awaited the result with equal anxiety and interest.
The battle raged for hours; the imprisoned peasantry in Saxton Church fearfully awaited the end; and Edward was scarcely less anxious, for the murderous butchery of the hand-to-hand fight favoured neither army.
Provisions to serve for a year having been laid up, the gallant Scots awaited the course of events.
The English soldiery were harassed by being kept continually on the alert, and by the scarcity of provisions, but their greatest disaster awaited them on their native soil.
Not venturing to penetrate into the country, he awaited the approach of the Saxon army.
Its glowing reflection on the distant hills reminded Wallace of the stretch he had to retread to reach his home before midnight; and thinking of his anxious Marion, he awaited with impatience the development of the object of his journey.
The latter came to inform Wallace that embassadors from Edward awaited his presence at Roslyn.
They were brought prisoners to Stirling, where another affliction awaited him;-he was to see his daughter and his sister in captivity.
He now told her, that the body of the deceased lady was deposited in the chapel of the castle; and that the priests from the adjacent priory only awaited her presence to consign it, with the church's rites, to its tomb.
Wallace, surprised at so much actions, awaited with wonder the promised explanation.
She blushed as she spoke; and fearful of having too daringly objected, looked down as she awaited his answer.
The Captain had intended suicide from the time he lost his vessel--thirteen of her crew were killed in the fight--and simply awaited his opportunity.
Thus befel it with Salim; but returning to his sister Salma, she awaited him till the last of the day, yet he appeared not; and she expected him a second day and a third and a fourth, yet there came no news of him.
Then she warned him of that which awaited strangers entering the town and said to him, "I like not this for thee and I fear mischief for thee from these questions that the Wazir hath appointed for addressing the ignorant.
His arrival at Shanghai in 1859 was most opportune, for there the chance for which he had been longing awaited him.
Through the trial by fire which awaited the ill-fated expedition, he passed unhurt, and escaping by some means or other its fatal termination, returned to New York.
There a bishopric and twenty years of useful and honourable labour awaited him.
In the afternoon therefore I turned towards the hills, and ascended one of them, to ascertain if there was any new object in sight, but here again disappointment awaited us.
I could get no further, and awaited my arrival in Washington with the greatest impatience.
The captain made a hurried movement toward the rear and then with the laudable intention, doubtless, of preparing her for the ghastly sight which awaited her, returned and opened a way for her into the drawing-room.
When I rode into the court, five minutes before noon, a very piteous little groupawaited me by the inner gate.
I was taken straight through into the Duke's private closet, where he awaited me; and, by the rarest chance His Majesty was just about to take his leave, and they had me in before he was gone.
Having learnt the drift of Helchitsky's teaching in this way, I awaited all the more impatiently the appearance of "The Net of Faith" in the journal of the Academy.
If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.
He considered that unquestioned rulership of every person near Demetrios which awaited him oversea, and chiefly he thought of Melicent whom he loved even better than he did the power to sneer at everything the world contained.
Aboard the Tranchemer the Free Companions awaited their captain; and the savage land they were bound for was a thought beyond the reach of a kingdom's lamentable curiosity concerning the whereabouts of King Helmas' treasure.
Was it the sudden fear that some other dreamer might be before him, or a subconscious prevision of what actually awaited him, that caused him to quicken his steps as he neared the arbour?
On the very night that the machinery and everything was completed, I allowed the spinners and others that I had engaged, to have a supper and dance in it wi' their wives and sweethearts.
On the date just mentioned Nelson joined Collingwood off Cadiz, but no accurate news awaited him.
Villeneuve had reached Martinique on the 14th May, only to find that Missiessy had not awaited his coming according to instructions.
She awaited the telegrams that brought her the tidings of victory or defeat with feverish impatience.
I was ushered as usual into the salon, where I quietly awaited Madame de Maucroix's appearance, having been told that she was in her son's room, that apartment which she used as her oratory.
The hunter was white with dust and foam by the time Bothwell rode him into the stable-yard at The Spaniards, where nothing but disappointment awaited him.
Placing Mrs. Charlton in the care of a servant, Lester returned quickly to where Charlton, who was no coward, awaited him.
Only another ten yards, when, as if aware of the awful fate that awaited her, Mâhia half raised herself, and with dying strength held the child out almost clear of the water.
