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Meanings of tense expectancy in English

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Usage of tense expectancy in English
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Dozens of soldiers were gathered outside in an atmosphere of tense expectancy.
Acts of faith
2
Ross longed to know the reason for the tense expectancy of the men around him.
Key Out of Time
3
All about her the Indians stood in tense expectancy.
The Gun-Brand
4
There was a tense expectancy, almost an eagerness there.
The River's End
5
There was a look in his face of tense expectancy that was pitiful to his friend.
The King's Men: A Tale of To-morrow
6
After that MacKelvey went away and the waiting, the tense expectancy was more marked than before.
The Short Cut
7
A few minutes of tense expectancy went by.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
8
The shouting from the bank had ceased, and everybody waited in tense expectancy when the otter disappeared.
Vane of the Timberlands
9
Not one but was waiting in tense expectancy for the move that should disclose the guardsman's mission.
The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days
10
Its quiet suggested that same tense expectancy, that breathless waiting, he had noticed under the big trees.
Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
11
Torches flared in the distance, and the beat of drums throbbed nearer amidst waves of tense expectancy.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
12
On the far side of the circle a sudden commotion broke up the tense expectancy of the onlookers.
The Man in the Twilight
13
A tense expectancy charged the air.
Acts of faith
14
She did not ask him what he meant, though her whole being was strung to a tense expectancy.
Greatheart
15
Nay, everything in sight was beginning to assume a different air, as though everything were charged with tense expectancy.
Through Russia
16
There was a tense expectancy.
The Scar
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Tense expectancy across language varieties
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