With the specter of famine thus banished, confidence, good humor, and the luxurious expectancy of a reposeful summer returned to Mrs. De Peyster.
While Mrs. De Peyster leaned there in the blackness, gathering strength, her mind mounted in sweet expectancy to her suite.
A buzz of expectancy went around when the inspector walked in from the ante-room and mounted the stand.
Dobbs had drawn his chair up to the table, set Floyd opposite him, and made one hand wash the other with the true gourmand's expectancy while he gave this savory order.
There was a strange, radiant expectancy in her eyes that set his heart to beat wildly.
The man made him no answer--only looked at him with a strange, eager light of expectancy in his eyes, and his lips twitched nervously, but no sound issued from them.
Jacqueline, who could not hear a word, told her companions with a child's expectancy only to wait and they would see Fra Diavolo eat up the poor little crow.
Gathered before the house, they prattled to one another in childlike expectancy of the Señor Emperador.
Mendez was a strikingly handsome and gallant Indian, but his expectancy now was not for battle.
She would pause in delighted expectancy to see his eyes grow big when she thrust, and then to see his mouth twitch at the corners as he caught her blade on his own keen wit.
Jack stood in an attitude of politeexpectancy at the door.
Thus, if the practice of a certain mortification or labor reduces the expectancy of life for a few years, a lesser reason suffices than if it reduces the expectancy for ten or more years.
Hence, there is no superstition in astronomical predictions, weather forecasts by meteorologists, tables of life expectancy drawn up by insurance experts, etc.
Such is the health and the expectancy of life among our immigrants from Norway.
But the expectancy is far more than this for him who passes infancy; thus if one attains to the age of fifty in Norway, one still may expect to live twenty-three years.
It was with an expectancy which was slightly toned down by misgivings that Hawtrey drove over to the homestead where Agatha was staying the next afternoon.
Any day that we can hear the guns faintly, we know that there is an undercurrent of nervous expectancy running through the whole city.
Pearl-divers are more susceptible to the charms of wayward Fortune than those who have not realised tile thrill of expectancy with which a huge goldlip, encrusted with coral and swathed with seaweed, is seized.
From nine to twelve years must elapse, but expectancy is not wholly measurable by the arbitrariness of time.
Chapter I On the west side of Ellen's father's house was a file of Norway spruce-trees, standing with a sharp pointing of dark boughs towards the north, which gave them an air of expectancy of progress.
She was rather more charming now than when one had looked at her with any expectancy of youth, since there was now no sense of disappointment.
There was something in her attitude of bland and helpless expectancy that probed the deepest fount of his sympathy.
Wrinkle sucked audibly at the stem of his pipe before he delivered himself into the eager expectancy that was massed between him and his companion.
From shy expectancyto burgeoning, From burgeoning to ripeness and decline, The seasons run their various course and bring Again at last the sober days benign.
A little rustle ofexpectancy swept through the group of listeners.
Sleep, deep and dreamless, blessed the racked body throughout the day; the sleep that leaves one's past life far behind and from which one wakes in weak expectancy and the helpless peace of a new-born child.
A vast expectancy hung solemn, breathless, upon the red lips of the day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expectancy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
