On my not expressing any surprise at the mention of the latter's name, she volunteered the information that Mr. Morphy was a celebrated American player, who had beaten everybody he had played with, and that they expected him yesterday.
The champion from whom we expected so much had a head-wind against him, and he was beaten.
I noticed that he was restless throughout the contest, which was only to be expected after having been so long in bed, and without nourishment.
That was expected of him, but only in the unexpected might he find safety.
Of course, after this nothing but war could be expected from the southwest Indians, who would be only too glad of an excuse to capture the white man's goods and teams.
Every Indian had sunk into forest or weeds or brush, to wait for the expected reinforcements.
In fact, they had not beenexpected before morning.
The Shawnees scarcely had expected to achieve this feat.
There was great joy, the next morning, when with all his prisoners Captain Church was met by Lieutenant Rowland on the Rehoboth road--for nobody had expected to see the captain alive again.
None of us ever expected to get out alive," says Private Harrington.
Certainly, factors other than those pertaining to egg deposition may cause mature egg-laden females to live in shallow water, or explain the deviations from the expected 1:1 ratio.
I have not noticed this coloration in other males of the subspecies emoryi; however, long-preserved males might be expected to lack the orange color; the specimens mentioned above were initially preserved in alcohol.
There are no specimens that indicate intergradation between calvatus and muticus; calvatus is expected in streams that drain into Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana.
Kyphosis is to be expected in all kinds of softshells as are other abnormalities, such as albinism (reported for Lissemys by D'Abreu, 1928, and partial albinism noted in T.
Therefore, smaller clutches are to be expected in the south.
Such movements are revealed by trapping procedures that yield deviations from the expected 1:1 sex ratio.
Being speedier than, the others, Legazpi naturally expected that it would reach the islands ahead of him and there await the fleet, but he was disappointed.
Alvarado with eleven vessels has called at one of the ports of New Spain, "to excuse the differences and scandals that were expected between Don Antonio de Mendoza .
I charge you that, in accordance with your offer, you make this expedition, and do therein all that is expected from your religion and goodness.
He could scarcely understand this leniency; he had expected a vigorous prosecution of Mortimer; had almost dreaded its severity.
He expected an order for "Red Eye," as he had baptized strong drink since it had grown familiarly into his being.
It had occurred to him that he had done a remarkably smart thing; he had expected commendation for his adroitness in looking after his master's interests.
He had expected opposition from Allis, but had hoped to overcome the anticipated objections; he had failed in this, but it was only a check, not defeat.
He had expected the searching for evidence would be a tedious matter; his fortunate star was guiding him straight and with rapidity to the goal he sought.
Mortimer had read much about confidence men, and half expected that his self-imposed acquaintance would try to borrow money, but he was disillusionized presently.
He expected the girl to denounce indignantly such a possibility; he was surprised that she remained silent.
If he and his chums expected Mr. Jessup to show surprise at the mention of the hermit they were disappointed.
I had never had, and never expected to have, a foreign correspondent.
Fan did not make over her straw to any of these men, as I fully expected that she would; nor did they seem to expect it.
Our voices and our hearts died within us, for there came to our ears the dreaded but expected sound—the clamorous jabber of many tongues.
Judging from the tone of their remarks (for Nancy held too tight a grip of me to allow of my seeing anything), I should say that their language to each other was not so polite as one might have expected from men of their nation.
Ahmet was referring to himself and his wife, for he fully expected to be cast into prison on the following day as an impostor.
And he glanced over his shoulder as if he half expected to see Spot come bounding towards him.
And everybody that came was expected to wear fancy clothes, and a mask.
He expected to hang it on the door of a neighbor's house, where there lived a young girl-rabbit.
And one day he told his mother that he expected to become a tramp, so he wouldn't have to wash his face.
She had expected to arouse the anger and excite the jealousy of the rough audience she addressed; but the result of her envenomed jeers disappointed her hopes.
She was scarcely awakened when you discovered her in my arms, and my entry into her chamber, was as little expected by her, as it was by you.
He seemed to be listening for some expected sound.
His eyes were fixed on the door by which she had departed, as if he expected her to return.
Some spoke boastfully of the achievements that would be performed by the Romans, when their expected auxiliaries arrived from Ravenna.
And now, as the hour of her expected return gradually approached, the image of Goisvintha banished from his mind whatever remained of those peaceful and happy contemplation in which he had hitherto been absorbed.
The chance of vengeance last expected was the chance that had first arrived.
If my efforts at my expected interview--and I will not spare them--are rewarded with success, it will be necessary to obtain some refuge for Antonina that will neither be suspected nor searched.
Their religion is such as might be expected among a people in their condition.
We were allowed to visit our friends at the other town, and spent our time as agreeably as could be expected under the circumstances.
Dab seemed to have expected as much, for he turned to Ford with, "Then I'll tell you what we must do.
He had his wish, and did his part handsomely when he least expected to have a chance.
Nearly everybody he met had some question or other to ask him about the wreck, and it was not to have been expected that Jenny Walters would let her old acquaintance pass her without a word or so.
An acorn-burr is just the thing to worry a restive horse, if put in such a place, but Joe and Fuz had hardly expected their "little joke" would be so very successful as it was.
Who would haveexpected as much from a raw, green country boy?
But this would be a somewhat flat piece of cynicism, only justifiable on the ground taken by the Telegraph, that modern actors cannot play, and ought not to be expected to play, modern tragedy.
To do it with dignity is all that can be expected of us.
The most important of these was the powerful ironclad ram Arkansas, which was expected to come out of the Arkansas or the Yazoo River into the Mississippi and attack the fleet of gunboats.
George evidently felt that this question came so near home he ought not to be expected to answer it, and he was silent.
They took pretty good care of the river above Vicksburg, and below that point Farragut's fleet was expected to do the work.
Again, the word betrothed points legitimately to a marriage which is always justly expected to follow if both parties are faithful to the engagement.
Unexceptionable references will be given and expected on either side.
For well I know, that their works, for want of this, will never produce that effect which (if all mankind were cool metaphysical reasoners) might be expected from them.
In other words, vines should be manured each season if they are expected to keep in good health and continue to develop.
Success cannot be expected in a soil unduly retentive of moisture.
In other words, that we are not expected to derive much pleasure from the garden for six months of the year.
When all the buds on the branch have developed into flowers, nothing more can be expected from that branch in the way of bloom, unless it can be coaxed to send out other branches.
Indeed, some of the very finest flowers I have ever had have been grown from collections that cost so little that one hardly expected to find anything but the commonest flowers among them.
Of course plants so treated are not to be expected to attain much size.
You would not have expected a base betrayal from one whom you had befriended and against whom you had committed no offence.
That boy's diary is of the economical sort that a person might properly be expected to keep in such circumstances--and be forgiven for the economy, too.
They did as well as they knew how, but really what was justly to be expected of them?
He said that the railroads could not be expected to do their whole duty by the traveller unless the traveller would take some interest in the matter himself.
This could be expected to furnish forth a parliament of a pretty inharmonious sort, and make legislation difficult at times--and it does that.
Then came Sunday and church at which Isobel did not appear; two churches in fact, and after these a tea party to the churchwardens and their wives, to whom Godfrey was expected to explain the wonders of the Alps.
The Pasteur examined the fine pipe through his blue spectacles, saying that never had he expected to own one so beautiful, then at once filled it and began to smoke.
He felt that their demeanour portended he knew not what, more at any rate than hope of deriving pleasure from his society; in fact, that they expected to get something out of him.
I've just had a telegram saying that I must report myself on Wednesday, goodness knows why, for I expected to get a month's leave.
Such things are to be expected in these times, are they not?
As to the future, he could say nothing, except that having been Miss Ogilvy's medical attendant for some years, he had expected something of this sort to happen, and known that her life could not be very long.
Being ignorant, however, and still very young and untaught of life, she could not be expected to take these large views, or to guess at the Hand of Mercy which holds the cup of human woes.
It is good vision--psychometry is the right term--though of a humbler order such as might be expected from a beginner.
Now John Blake was not an idealist, nor in any sense romantic; therefore, from marriage he expected little.
He knew that even if he became a peer, as he fully expected to do, it would be the same story; outward deference and lip service, but inward dislike and contempt.
Do you know that while we were kissing each other there some very queer ideas got hold of me, not only of the sort which might be expectedin our case?
We do not know how many Christians expected any particular kind of Second Advent to take place within any given length of time.
Those writings in which Chiliastic expectations took the form of advocating the active preparing for and co-operating with the expected Messiah would suffer extinction.
But such a technological development was not expected nor indeed wished for.
They gave him bhang to smoke and arrack to drink ere he slept that night, for his great fear had deprived him of reason for awhile; and he looked round him as though he expected to see the tiger's eyes everywhere.
When all eyes were turned upon the pundit, and he found himself in the trying position of one who wasexpected to give proof of his opinion, his natural modesty overcame him and he was suddenly silent.
A few years ago much wasexpected from transfusion of blood, but gradually the conviction has forced itself upon us that it is wellnigh useless, and indeed that, on the whole, it is worse than useless.
Unfortunately the second Russian project failed, through no fault of his own, and as he had borrowed money at usurious rates on his expected profits, he found himself compelled to fly once more from his creditors.
What the public had expected and desired was shown by its enthusiastic reception of "Rienzi," and its colder treatment of the "Dutchman.
Yet Mr. Reed had the effrontery to say that he "expected us to make the missionary societies duly sensible of their obligations" to him.
When he reached the Congo a steamboat was waiting for him at Equatorville, two hundred miles further up the river, where he was expected to emerge.
Neutral correspondents are expected to use this sort of thing, which is turned out by the hundredweight, as the basis of their communications to their newspapers.
Attrition, to be sure, works both ways, but if the Germans are out-gunned this year in the West to the extent expected their position must become untenable.
This he cannot reasonably have expected to obtain without war; but when the war comes we hear exactly the same tale as now of the Germans' love of peace and the despicable deceitfulness of their enemies.
I fully expected to be placed under arrest or be deported, but I determined to put up the best bluff possible.
