Hapless fate, with nothing better to expect than a head clerkship.

But withal, what better opportunity can he expect than that he has lost?

What more could a sensible, experienced bachelor expect than that?

Sometimes it's easier to give people the answer they expect than to explain what you really think or feel.

What greater victory do you expect than to make your enemy see and know that he is not able to encounter you?

I'd rather be held in the bosom of my enemy and know what to expect than be murdered or attacked by some filthy, drunken Roman.

The random and unlikely are often a lot more expected than you realise.

Nothing was less expected than any opposition on the part of the pontiff.

More had been expected than actually showed, and everybody knew why.

No stronger recognition of their independence could be expected than the one given.

No event could have been less expected than the conversion of Saul of Tarsus.

Nothing less could be expected than that the scene would terminate in some bloody catastrophe.

Meanwhile, his opponents had organized a new party from which more was expected than it actually accomplished.

Multiplied enjoyments fall to but few men, and are no more rationally expected than the highest prize in a lottery.

If, from above, they hear the fiddle screeching, what else is to be expected than that those below should dance?

'As will I,' Mishani replied, though more because it was expected than because she meant it.