"Anticipation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... How they drawled it over, the beautiful, rich German. Hermann had begged so, but she had felt differently then. She had loved her work in anticipation. To marry and settle down—she was not ready. It would be so good to be independent. And now—But it was too late. That was years ago. Hermann must have found some yellow-braided, blue-eyed Dorothea by this—some Maedchen who cared not for calculus ...
— A Reversion To Type • Josephine Daskam
... window, he deposited in his bosom. The casement was suddenly closed. The lover, eager to read his billet, made all imaginable haste to regain the road, where, mounting his steed, he arrived in a brief space, almost breathless with anticipation and impatience, at his own door. The contents of the despatch were quickly ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... of those who at the time maintained that even in the Allies' interests Rumania ought not to enter the war at that conjuncture, and anticipation of that invasion was one ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... the real stuff," thought Beaumaroy as he eyed it in pleasurable anticipation. "Where the dear old man got it, I don't know; but in itself it's ...
— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony
... lion of that nature when fairly aroused: his own character had in it something of a woman's—an unprincipled, gifted, aspiring, and subtle woman's,—and in Maltravers—stern, simple, and masculine—he recognised the superior dignity of the "lords of the creation;" he was overawed by the anticipation of a wrath and revenge which he felt he merited, and which he feared might ...
— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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