At weddings, as well as upon other festive occurrences, they usually ring the bells in expectance of a pecuniary reward.
In rapt expectance shall remain; Till, with thee, brilliant as a gem Set in a kingdom's diadem, Thy lovely mistress shall appear!
But whether the concourse be all Israel or all nations, they are gathered in silent expectance as in a great judgment-hall.
His eye meets with love the upturned patient eye of humble expectance and loving fear.
Its sure fruit is joy in Him, since He will answer the expectance of His people, and will make His name more fully known and more sweet to those who have clung to it, in so far as they knew it.
The mercies of God are great, and His patient expectance of us, granting time and occasions and motives to repent, is most gracious and full of longanimity.
Her prayers devout, Her sighs have drawn me from the coast, where oft Expectance lingers, and have set me free From th' other circles.
But that, ere the lofty bound Thou reach, expectance may not weary thee, I will make answer even to the thought, Which thou hast such respect of.
XVII On from bower advancing they came in fair array; Much press was there of heroes along the crowded way Through anxious glad expectance to see that beauty rare, The fairest and the noblest of the noble and the fair.
LVI And now with trembling fingers 'gan he shroud the light, Then went with glad expectance where lay his lady bright, And laid him down beside her, nor small the joy he knew, When his arms around her tenderly he threw.
They thought with glad expectance to challenge for their own The praise for the best hunting; but lower sunk their pride, When to the tryst-fire shortly they saw Sir Siegfried ride.
The silence of patient expectance is changed for the melody of received deliverance.
Just as the psalmist began with telling of his own patient expectance and thence passed on to speak of God's help, so in these two verses he sets forth the same sequence in terms studiously cast into the most comprehensive form.
How tedious morns these be in our expectance Of what we tender most?
They're upon the last sound; but our expectance of that great Count, whose desires are winged for us, foreflow our entry.
It may be doubtful whether the psalmist means to represent that attitude of expectance as prior to and securing forgiveness or as consequent upon it.
It falls into two divisions of four verses each, of which the former breathes the prayer of a soul penetrated by the consciousness of sin, and the latter the peaceful expectance of one that has tasted God's forgiving mercy.
But the patient expectance of Noah comes out strongly in the story, as well as the gradualness of God's working.
So we may learn from this prayer the spirit of expectance of victory which is not presumption, and of consecration, which alone will enable us to pass through life victorious.
Mrs. Munger prompted, with an increase of expectancein her large clear eyes, and of impartiality in her whole face.
Sometimes the child stole back from the kitchen or the barn, and peeped in upon her with a roguishexpectance which her gloomy stare defeated, and then it ran off again.
No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something.
All nature seemed rich and glowing with the deep expectance of my heart.
In all probability, too, this element of expectance has indirect as well as direct effects, and the indirect are not the least fruitful in results.
But psychology has shown us that suggestion or expectance forms one element in the developing of faculty, and this whether it be manual dexterity, quickness of memory or exercise of judgment and initiative.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expectance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
