Significados de strain expectancy en inglés

They were not talking; and her eyes had a look of strained expectancy.

The eyes of the woman were filled with a strained expectancy.

Herbert's face had already assumed a look of strained expectancy.

Cyril had created, by his restless movements to and fro, an atmosphere of strained expectancy.

He found that back of the seeming repose of the Midas there was a strained expectancy.

Harry knew that every heart in the fifty thousand beat, like his own, with strained expectancy.

The long pauses between the strokes held me in a state of strained expectancy until I wanted to howl.

This dramatic interruption of the hearing served to increase the strained expectancy with which those in the room had followed the proceedings.

No inch of space in the court-room was untenanted; an air of deep importance, a hush of strained expectancy lay over all.

He stood there, listening all the while, strained expectancy in his eyes as if he too were vaguely conscious of something outside happening....