Accompanied by the Chevalier Johnston, he remained all night in anxious expectation.

We stood in anxious expectation-holdingour weapons ready to dash them back.

She was keyed up to the most racking pitch of anxious expectation.

Maurice read anxious expectation, mingled with some faint hope, in Madeleine's countenance.

She had been silent and had always lived in anxious expectation of blows.

And now the new proprietor was looked for with anxious expectation.

It was for these, then, that Beatrice waited in anxious expectation.

A deep silence ensued, and with anxious expectation each looked at the boy.

Semenoff's description of that night of anxious expectation is worth quoting.

He waited in anxious expectation of a summons from Mme.

Although I could not make myself heard, I waited in anxious expectation of deliverance.

We remained, unable to sleep, in anxious expectation of daylight.

We waited in anxious expectation for the arrival of the provisions, but no boats appeared.

Daniel remained in a state of anxious expectation, impressed with the solemnity of the occasion.

Hermon spent seven long days and nights full of anxious expectation in a darkened room.

While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse.