Nineteen times out of twenty a premature death awaits him: and, alas!
Hens and chickens are straying about, and a tough old rooster, tied by the leg, awaits the pot, after his purchaser shall have been found.
The body was afterwards secretly moved to the Cave of Amecameca, where it awaits the glorious day of triumph for saints and confusion to reprobates.
Meanwhile General Valencia, pressed to declare his 'Plan,' has replied that he awaits the announcement of the intention of the Generals Paredes and Santa Anna, and for his own part he only desires the dismissal of Bustamente.
The ascension, therefore, is a pledge and type of the glory which yet awaits his followers.
He only wished us to be warned and to resolve anew that in the spiritual conflict which awaits us we shall be true to him as loyal soldiers of the cross.
It will be a sign unto your posterity that much good fortune awaits them.
The consequence is, that this male Peri refuses to enter his Paradise, though the gates are open for him, the trumpets blow, and the fair unspotted oneawaits him fruitful within.
My trusty Tom awaits him there, as if by accident.
It is this: 'Gaudry, bishop and seigneur of Laon, certain of the support of the King of the French, awaits in his episcopal palace to see the communiers come themselves to enforce justice upon his property and his men!
The enemy has mustered his strength, andawaits our coming: we are within shot, yet they do not fire.
If in the future you are convinced that you have become different, and I am still living, my welcoming hand awaits you.
A bushel of letters awaits attention, besides a pair of lizards that I have undertaken to domesticate.
It is a state of harmony, without tension and without disturbance, the dominical state of the soul, perhaps the state which awaits it beyond the grave.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
But transubstantiation is the fountain of all the misery in which we find ourselves at the present time, and which awaits the Church in future.
It is, however, not our purpose to give a history of the peasants' war, which still awaits a true representation, even if it were carried out in the shortest outlines.
All the toil and worry of life have perished with that last long sigh, no more work awaits those weary hands, so Honor crosses them reverentially on the still breast.
I have spent a life of wretched expiation already in this world, God only knows what awaits me in the next.
Father is away, and if the awful disappointment you suggest awaits her, there is all the more reason why she should have some sympathetic support?
If you cannot, then a long litigation awaits this poor widow, ending, as such litigation usually does, in favour of the stronger party.
We reach the summit, however, without mishap, and find ourselves before a little temple, on the steps of which an old priest awaits us, with smiling bow of welcome.
Degradation awaits at the first blunder which it is not humanly possible to avoid.
You will have to face a penalty similar to that which awaits your father.
A vessel of this type awaits your pleasure at any hour.
That penalty, Prince, is the rope which awaits every common murderer.
She orders Brangaena to prepare the draught, and awaits her victim.
Her heart flies before her to the hero she adores; she awaits but one favorable look to triumph over him, to subdue this master of hearts and make him her captive.
Sire," he said, "Colonel Gourgaud awaitsyour Majesty's commands.
Do you wish to get my head cut off, gabbling like that before this man who perhaps awaits but the moment to settle me?
Mademoiselle Guimard awaits his Eminence in her carriage!
The Queen but awaits the hour of putting it into practice to inform his Majesty of it," answered the Count.
Then say to him that a trooper of the Third Hussars wishes to speak with him a moment, and awaits him here in the court.
I can answer for his intelligence and courage; heawaits his final orders next door.
Doubtless awaits him there, Shall he now hesitate Here, at Forst's very gate, Fearing to test his fate?
Perhaps the most precious pearl of thought of the evening awaits just one more dive.
And yet, my father, you teach that nothing but torment awaits bad men after death--torment for ever and ever.
Tremble and know that a judgment awaits thee--yea, a burning fiery looking-for of judgment to come.
Return not to Nkunkundhlovu, for death awaits thee there.
There are many who would give all they possess to enjoy the honour that awaits you.
However great my faith in your word is, I cannot help thinking with anxiety of the city to which you go; and who knows what temptation awaits you there?
A splendid future awaits you, Iravati; that which every woman in the whole of Hindustan would look upon as the most enviable lot can be yours--Prince Salim.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awaits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
