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Thanking you in anticipation.

The children had trouble falling asleep on Christmas Eve in anticipation of the visit from Santa Claus.

The crowd was growing restless in anticipation of the band coming on stage.

Mother took the clothes off the line in anticipation of rain.

Film director Alfred Hitchcock once remarked that there is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

An exhibition was given in anticipation of the Queen's visit.

The crowd was growing restless in anticipation of the band coming on stage.

And the knowledge we now possess justifies us completely in the anticipation, that when the still lower Eocene deposits, and those which belong to the Cretaceous epoch, have yielded up their remains of ancestral equine animals, we shall find, first, a form with four complete toes and a rudiment of the innermost or first digit in front, with, probably, a rudiment of the fifth digit in the hind foot;[3] while, in still older forms, the series of the digits will be more and more complete, until we come to the five-toed animals, in which, if the doctrine of evolution is well founded, the whole series must have taken its origin.

But anticipation has no less charm than retrospect, and to an Englishman landing upon your shores for the first time, travelling for hundreds of miles through strings of great and well-ordered cities, seeing your enormous actual, and almost infinite potential, wealth in all commodities, and in the energy and ability which turn wealth to account, there is something sublime in the vista of the future.

and broken lances and queens of beauty seemed to fade into insignificance, or to be only incidents in the tumult of secular life and worldly struggle, and her spirit quailed at the anticipation of the journey she had once desired, the gay court with its follies, empty show, temptations, coarsenesses and cruelties, and the strange land with its new language.

75 „ The result completely corroborates the foregoing anticipation.

I knew beforehand of this letter, and Miss Messenger has given me work in anticipation of your visit.

Now the great advantage formerly possessed by the sailor-an advantage cruelly curtailed by the establishment of "homes," and the introduction of temperance-was, that he could be and was a prodigal at the end of every cruise; while the voyage itself was an agreeable interval provided for recovery, recollection, and anticipation.

" The events of the French Revolution were still in the public mind; and many Englishmen, who had looked on with horror at the spectacle of a neighbouring country writhing in the grip of anarchy, narrowly watched the course of events at home, in fearful anticipation lest any of the causes which had brought about the debâcle in France should be reproduced in this island.

Of course, hunger is frequently and naturally accompanied with anticipation of the pleasure of eating: but careful introspection seems to show that the two are by no means inseparable.

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