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Examples
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I will take care, that settlements shall exceed your ex-pectation.
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Be-fore Sir Charles arrived, and when we were in ex — pectation of his coming, being apprised that Sir Charles had a serious turn, he threatened to play upon him, and, as he phrased it, to bamboozle him; for these wits and witlings have a language peculiar to themselves.
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Eyes glistened, damp with unfulfillable ex-pectation.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all seemed to be waiting for some - thing to occur; the dead man only was without ex - pectation.
Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909
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I went up the steps, always with the same ex - pectation of something terrible, and I rang.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription] 1890
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[(Furnival\222s account of his reception, added little to the ex) -10.6 (pectation of the pleasure my) 29.4 (first visit to)] TJ
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[(I) 22.3 (ndies, had not been remitted according) 9.3 (to his ex) -10.7 (pectation; and the friend who wrote him)] TJ
Honoria Sommerville 1789
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- The Fall - Words of E.pectation (live: Arena, Rotterdam, 12 Feb. 1983) - Mark E. Smith's Guide to Writing Guide & London (both printed in "vII") - M.E.S. poem - Manchester (bit of this spliced into Garden on PBL) - Spandau Ballet - Communication
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X. 31: Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God, we certainly have not conformed to the viev»s which the Creator proposed to himself, in placing us under this economy of ex - pectation and trial.
Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague Sutcliffe, Joseph, 1762-1856, tr 1812
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In a word, Is the ex - pectation of Israel well-founded, or is it chimerical?
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