"Anticipative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a deep voice, with a sort of oily, anticipative gentleness in it, 'can you forgive ...
— Fair Margaret - A Portrait • Francis Marion Crawford
... touching. Meanwhile the redoubted Corporal, who was by no means pleased with the change in his master's plans, lingered behind, whistling the most melancholy tune in his collection. No young lady, anticipative of balls or coronets, had ever felt more complacent satisfaction in a journey to London than that which had cheered the athletic breast of the veteran on finding himself, at last, within one day's gentle march of the metropolis. And ...
— Eugene Aram, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... us, carrying torches alongside the carriage of the General, not so much to show their enthusiasm as to ensure our safety (Bourrienne) These brigands became so bad in France that at one time soldiers were placed in the imperials of all the diligences, receiving from the wits the curiously anticipative name of "imperial armies".]— ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... maid-servant, becoming used to the position or making the best of it, began to bustle about and wait upon their visitors, who had already drawn up their seats to the supper-table, which had been spread with good things two hours ago anticipative of the return Reuben ...
— Stories by English Authors: England • Various |
