expectant

• "It is a very different thing The curate looked expectant, as if believing that his remarks were going to be noticed. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)
• Across the policeman's pointing arm, Waters saw the face of his enemy, expectant, avid, bestial with hideous and cruel mirth. —  Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories
• His perennial wit kept his audiences expectant, and his compact, forceful utterances seemed to break the argument of an opponent as a hammer shatters a pane of glass. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
• But, for the Valois, insanity always lurked at the next corner, expectant, and they knew it; to save the girl's reason the Queen was forced to break off all discussion of the match. —  Chivalry
• We naturally become profoundly interested, expectant, and, to the limit of our powers, critical. —  The Threshold Grace

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