I saw a pale light at the other end, when I entered; but it was dark in the middle, and turned out to be much longer than I had anticipated.
As he had anticipated, Marie de Medicis was startled by so extraordinary a proposition.
As he had anticipated, on the day of the canvass a letter was received from the ministers, ordaining the re-election of the mayor without modification or explanation of any kind; an affront which so exasperated M.
But to my great surprise, when I first announced to Isora my intention of revealing our marriage, I perceived in her countenance, always such a traitor to her emotions, a very different expression from that which I had anticipated.
We had now been cruising for six weeks, and I found that my profession was much more agreeable than I had anticipated.
In a moment afterwards the pulpit was filled, not by a white man, as we had anticipated, but by a tall negro.
This point gave Spike more trouble than he had anticipated.
As the schooner stood up better than he had anticipated, the mate felt as all seamen are so apt to feel, when they see that their vessels might be made to perform more than is actually got out of them.
While, for him, the quiet pleasure he had anticipated in the visit had not materialized and he longed to leave at once, for Daney's sake he remained for tea.
Indeed, before the first day of his retirement had passed, he had begun to suspect that joy without labor was apt to be something less than he had anticipated.
I went into the country, and, as I had anticipated, there was no meeting called.
As he had anticipated, I arrived within ten minutes of the time; and in answer to his polite message I returned another, thanking him for his attention, and promising not to detain him five minutes.
My voice failed to produce the startling effect that I had anticipated.
The impression of sublimity, however, which I had anticipated, was almost entirely lost in the sense of personal discomfort.
The task proved more difficult and of longer duration than he had anticipated; and before success rewarded his efforts his wife rejoined him, in tears.
As he had anticipated, the soil had not all been washed away from the flat land, and he advised the inhabitants to plant quick-growing seeds at once.
The fury of the blast which had just left them had exceeded everything that Cosmo had anticipated, and he saw that, in the face of such hurricanes, the Ark would be practically unmanageable.
It came even sooner than he had anticipated, with the results that we have already noted in New York.
Essex soon found that the conquest of Ulster was not quite so easy a task as he had anticipated.
But the Deputy's own career was nearer its termination than he had anticipated.
St. Malachy found his mission as painful as he had anticipated.
James contrived to be first in the retreat which he had anticipated, and for which he had so carefully prepared.
Aunt Lizzie's desertion, and for such a reason, was the last thing he had anticipated.
Though Wallie could not notice it when he paid them, he said nothing, for by now he was accustomed to having everything cost more than he had anticipated, however liberal he might be in his estimate.
Concluding that every thing was as safe for his operations as it would become at any time, he slowly felt his way to the door of the ward which held Paul Benedict, and found it fastened on the outside, as he had anticipated.
The request came in so different a form from what he had anticipated, and was so tamely courteous, that he laughed over the note in derision.
The General found more to engage his attention than he had anticipated, and after a few hours' absence from the fascinations of his idol, he began to feel uneasy about his book.
The mountain, upon the summit of which we stood, occupied the middle of the eastern half of the island, and proved to be, as we had anticipated, the crater of an apparently extinct volcano.
The river appeared still to be widening, and, as I had anticipated, before my watch had ended, the raft entered the Mississippi.
But Sim did better than I had anticipated, and in half an hour he declared that he had "got the knack of the thing.
She was calmer than I had anticipated, and I ventured to go into the room.
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