I had expected her to notice that I looked dull and dismal.
I had expected to see her employed in reading the Bible.
I had expected to see papa's face made beautiful by his winning smile.
He did just what I had expected--said I had spoken truly, and disappointed the family by asking to be excused if he refrained from entering into explanations.
I try not to take gloomy views of things; but I am not quite so happy as I had expected to be when my dear was in the same town with me.
It was so startling that I leaped to my feet and looked back at the edge of the forest, as though I had expected an answer of some sort to that black display of confidence.
I had expected to see a knob of wood there, you know.
We broke down--as I had expected--and had to lie up for repairs at the head of an island.
But it did not come as soon as we had expected, and before many minutes my companion was fast asleep, and I was rapidly falling into the same state of happy forgetfulness.
She did return to the house; and the result of my precaution was, as I had expected, to throw her off her guard.
He turned in eager expectation, and found himself face to face with the last man under heaven whom he had expected to see.
The dread of those other words that I had expected to hear from him left me as suddenly as it had come.
I had expected a great deal from him, but I had certainly not expected that.
I scarcely know; I had expected to have seen him before now,' replied Kate.
Smike glanced round, and his eye rested, for an instant, on Nicholas, as if he had expected him to intercede; but his look was riveted on his desk.
I was greatly touched, and disappointed too, for I had expected that we should be quite gay on this happy and long-looked-for occasion.
Without being nearly so much surprised as I had expected, my mother entered into it readily; and it was all arranged that night, and my board and lodging during the visit were to be paid for.
Happily, too, the greater part of the boys came back low-spirited, and were not so boisterous at my expense as I had expected.
Her manner turned my head, for it was so different from what I had expected.
She did not fly into a storming rage as I had expected, but went quietly out of the room and presently returned with two papers, which she read.
My wife supplied this omitted courtesy, as I had expected.
This neighbourhood, so retired, so aristocratic, was far from what he had expected.
From a man of taste and a votary of art, I had expected it,' returned the conspirator politely.
The play went better than she had expected, and the enthusiasm of the audience convinced her that it was a success before the fall of the curtain on the second act.
He had expected her to rave and weep, to protest and plead--before denouncing him and bidding him mind his own business.
Nor I you," said she, as pleased as he had expected, and showing it with a candor that made her look almost the child he had last seen.
I had expectedto see Mr. Jeffrey terribly shocked, but not in so awful a way.
Crossing immediately to Mr. Moore's side of the street, I encountered him as I had expected to do, at his own gateway.
It was my own conclusion but it did not sound as welcome to me from his lips as I had expected.
His manner, fettered though it was by gloomy thoughts, was not just the manner I had expected to encounter.
He had expected to be a candidate for the Presidency, with a strong probability of election, but had accepted the Vice- Presidency; and the subject which seemed to elicit his most vitriolic ill will was reform in the civil service.
Mr. Platt found the elements supporting Mr. Fassett even stronger than he had expected.
But this campaign of 1884 ended as I had expected.
In this address my endeavor was to indicate the lines on which reforms of various sorts must be instituted, and along which a better future for the country could be developed, and it proved a far greater success than I had expected.
To complicate matters still more, students began to come at a period much earlier and in numbers far greater than we had expected; and the first result of this was that, in getting ready for the opening, Mr. Cornell and myself were worn out.
I had expected, of course, to see them betray a sense of pain, although in a less degree than their mother, and this would have been sufficient to confirm my opinion concerning the habitual endurance of atmospheric pressure.
These symptoms were more than I had expected, and occasioned me some alarm.
He made, however, no attempt to descend as I had expected, but struggled with great vehemence to get back, uttering at the same time very shrill and piercing cries.
As I had expected it to do, the announcement created an immediate uproar.
The Portland women took very tender care of me, and in a few days I was ready for work, but we found conditions even worse than we had expected.
Harry was carrying a rope with which we had expected to lead home our reluctant cow, and I seized one end of it and whispered to him that we would "play horse," pretending he was driving me.
Many of them left the church in a white fury, but others--more than I had expected--remained to speak to me and assure me of their sympathy.
As he had expected, Captain Doane immediately pounced on him.
And yet the feeling was not so strong as I had expected.
The day of arrival at Varna made us individually satisfied that things would not be just as we had expected.
I had expected a rush of gas from the week-old corpse.
The collapse had come, as on former occasions, just as I had expected.
They were all locked, as I had expected, and the locks were comparatively new.
But there was not the slightest trace of that pain, wounded pride, indignation, or anger, that he had expected to see upon it.
That opportunity came sooner than he had expected.
She had not done anything that he had expected of her and so inasmuch as he loved her he loved her more.
The meeting had placed him in such a position that he had expected a lot of condescension on his own part.
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