All eyes were fixed on the Beyond, at first with an immediate expectation of the Judgment, afterwards with a continued looking forward to Paradise or Punishment.
Yet neither the expectation of heavenly bliss nor the fear of purgatorial pain was felt with that intense sincerity which inspired Dante's cantos and Orcagna's frescoes.
The Assembly doe hereby Ordaine That none be sent to Universities from Presbyteries, nor be admitted as Bursers of divinitie, but pious youths, and such as are known to be of Good expectation and approven abilities.
And we hope the expectation of such, shall not be disappointed, but that the Lord will open to them a doore for carrying on of his work, and making the lying spirit to passe out of that land.
From a study of their ancestors these normal parents appeared to be simplex, and the classification of the offspring showed more than 25% nulliplex, which is the expectation from simplex x simplex mating.
The classification of the children showed a close fitting to the expectation from a simplex x simplex mating.
The expectation is that 25% of the offspring would be nulliplex, in reality 35% were found to be mentally deficient.
But if the young chief was watching in that expectation he fixed his eyes upon the distant horizon in vain.
But all was silent save a low murmur from the far-spreading city--a low, strange buzzing burr as if from some vast hive, suggesting that the whole place was awake and in expectation of something about to happen.
In our letter of the 28th January last we stated the reasonableness of our expectation that certain contributions towards the expenses of the war should be made by the Rajah of Tanjore.
Still these fundamental errors in their views do not prevent a clear and distinct expectation similar to that of the heathen at the time of our Lord's coming.
This event has thrown the city into great consternation, and every one who can, is buying corn in expectation of what is to follow.
In the hourly expectation of being plundered, I have put such things as I should be sorry to lose in a hole made in the wall, by the falling of a room.
To the dear boys it has been a great disappointment, for it was the constant theme of their conversation, and a cheering expectation to see friends from England.
The agony of expectationbecame at last too great to endure; he felt his way to the door and passed out, and groping down the narrow stair, reached the outer door, and the road.
There seemed to be a feeling of expectation everywhere.
Both Nick and the nurse seconded this, and, seeing there was nothing that she could do, she gave way in the matter, lying down as she was with but small expectation of sleep.
Under ordinary circumstances this expectation of hers would doubtless have been realised, for Nick had plainly every intention of keeping out of her way; but the day of emergency usually dawns upon a world of sleepers.
I had lived for some time in hourly expectation of being captured, and I could not throw off the feeling.
People in Moscow were looking forward with eager expectation to the event of the coronation, and it was supposed that half the great people of Europe would be there.
The young Escalante has never been discovered, though the poor Lady Hilda lives on in expectationof recovering her son.
Poor Hilda had never heard from Pedro Alvarez, nor had she received tidings of her son, though, hopeless as it might seem, she lived on in the expectation of one day recovering him.
And thus our expectation of unhappiness is happy, but of happiness unhappy.
The Japanese still had some expectation of localizing the North China and the Shanghai conflicts.
In the Saint-Mihiel drive, and afterward in the Saint-Mihiel sector, the 89th had fully met the high expectation of its old commander and his admirers.
This book is not called "The Young Woman's GUIDE," with the expectation that she will consider it her only or even her principal guide.
Jupp's face in expectation of his admiring surprise.
The decks were cleared--the guns cast loose, and every man stood in eager expectation at his quarters.
With eager expectation I hurried to the house in which I had requested her to remain.
The names of both are written in brilliant characters on some of the most eventful pages of the history of India, and both were removed at a time when expectation as to the services which they might still render to India was at its height.
There she was in all her imposing magnitude, crouched on the margin of the Desert, looking over the fertile valley of the Nile, and her gaze fixed on the East as if in earnest expectation of the sun-rising.
As wife and mother, she had passed in expectation many long hours of anguish, offering fervent prayers to heaven.
Alexander's concessions raised the expectationof a constitution among those who knew what the word implies, including the students at the universities.
The completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway aroused great expectation for the future of Russia's commerce.
I came here, sir, in the expectation I should be alone.
An Indian never gives away anything without some expectation of a return or some other interested motive.
Both of the daughters were zealous Protestants, and the expectation that one of them would receive the English crown on the King's death had kept the people quiet while James was endeavoring to restore Catholicism.
The morning had found Ahmed in a wretched hovel, rising from a sorry bed, in the expectation of losing his life: in the evening he was the lord of a rich palace, and married to the only daughter of a powerful king.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expectation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
