Expected Sentence Examples

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  • I am a patient person by nature and fully expected to later take them one or two at a time.

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  • He expected to be punished.

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  • This is what I expected from you--I knew your kindness!

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  • The last was a thought he never expected to have.

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  • If he expected a chuckle, he was disappointed.

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  • I never expected him to be capable of treating you well.

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  • I switched boats mid stream and expected you to follow me.

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  • My progress in lip-reading and speech was not what my teachers and I had hoped and expected it would be.

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  • We tend to notice every time the expected effect is triggered by the cause, but may not notice all the times it isn't.

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  • By the confidence in his voice, he expected her not only to agree, but to resume her place on his arm.

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  • By the look of understanding on his face, he knew what she expected to feel.

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  • I didn't know you expected a gold-engraved invitation.

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  • Adrienne expected a sharp response from Mr. Marsh, but he only regarded his wife thoughtfully for a few moments.

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  • Would she be invited along, or would she be expected to stay on the ranch?

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  • He hadn't thought twice about Toni's message that he'd delivered the package from the stash house to his condo until he walked in and discovered the vamp he expected was a woman.

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  • It was Friday, a week day, and the height of the season, so he had expected most of the town's folk to be too busy for political small talk.

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  • He expected to die from starvation.

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  • There too, as everywhere, I sometimes expected the Visitor who never comes.

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  • He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future.

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  • Over supper they talked of the expected foal, the ranch, and everything but why they hadn't talked much for the last four days.

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  • She was ready to hang up but I added the sad news Howie's mother, her aunt Rose, wasn't expected to live.

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  • He didn't even prattle on about some alleged personal experiences in a diamond mine in Africa, a search for gold or other such nonsense he was expected to resurrect or invent.

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  • It was about a foot in diameter at the big end, and he had expected to get a good saw-log, but it was so rotten as to be fit only for fuel, if for that.

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  • You expected him to come storming after you.

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  • He expected the wolf to come his way any moment.

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  • The worse everything became, especially his own affairs, the better was Pierre pleased and the more evident was it that the catastrophe he expected was approaching.

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  • Lisa leaned over the sack and examined the cookies with the expected enthusiasm.

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  • I expected you to go soon.

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  • He had not at all expected such a sight.

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  • What she expected to see when she turned was Sarah's white Plymouth, but the car that stopped before the house was Allen's red Eagle Talon.

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  • She'd been molded to exist for one reason and expected to step aside when her purpose was fulfilled.

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  • You're handling this better than I expected.

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  • That path lies in a direction I never would've expected.

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  • It sounded as if she expected him to be on the mountain.

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  • No, this definitely wasn't what she expected when she made the choices she did long ago to start this chain-of-events.

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  • They expected Lori to return that day, but she didn't.

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  • She expected him to react, but he didn't.

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  • Instead of the horror Deidre expected to see, Daniela's face warmed even more, softening the skin around her eyes.

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  • Uncertain what he expected, his anger was boiling at the silent rejection.

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  • I expected you to take me to a Sanctuary, not here.

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  • It was something she might have expected of Jonathan – someone immature.

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  • I only spoke a few words, as I did not know I was expected to speak until a few minutes before I was called upon.

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  • A skull, a coffin, the Gospel--it seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more.

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  • Next day after her talk with her mother Natasha expected Bolkonski all day, but he did not come.

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  • Kutuzov seemed not to understand what was expected of him.

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  • With a number of renowned restaurants and chefs within the city, making a choice for dinner might be more difficult than expected.

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  • Prices are on the higher side and reservations are expected.

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  • He and Sarah had done far more for her than could have been expected.

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  • However, while noticeable, his damaged appearance was less disagreeable than I expected.

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  • The hospital was much more extensive than I expected.

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  • It surprised me to find he'd carted more of his research to California than I'd expected.

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  • He hadn't expected her to know how to fight.

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  • Darkyn himself had shown some signs of being affected by her, perhaps not as much as she liked, but more than she ever expected.

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  • Lori's disappointed statement left the impression that she expected Destiny to know her.

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  • But then, I never expected you to get up at night and take care of the baby when I was worn out.

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  • Life was so different than she had planned or expected, and yet, it was so much better.

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  • The doctors still said they expected him to wake up any day, but Carmen was skeptical about how much they believed it.

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  • Maybe it was something she simply expected.

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  • Her lip was still mending, but otherwise she didn't look as bad as expected.

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  • As Carmen expected, he went back to work only a few days after he came home.

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  • He hadn't expected anything different when he met the reincarnated Deidre a few years ago and started down this path.

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  • Gabriel's shout was closer than she expected.

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  • Darkyn had no intention of going easy on her, even if it was her first lesson in the proper behavior expected of a demon's blood slave.

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  • She wasn't sure why she expected either from him, except that she still held half a hope that she might live beyond three months.

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  • Admitting the truth out loud was worse than he expected.

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  • He wasn't bristling, as she expected.

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  • She'd expected to piss him off.

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  • She wasn't sure why she expected him to speak but found herself wishing he'd say something.

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  • At close to seven feet with eyes and hair blacker than night and a permanent scowl, he was what most expected Death to look like.

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  • Rhyn never expected to hear these words from the death dealer, who needed nothing from anyone.

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  • His clothing was thick and heavy this night, as if he expected to be standing outside her window until dawn.

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  • Jade awaited him, as he expected.

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  • Her feet were swollen and shredded, as she expected.

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  • He looked like the rabid dog she'd expected Rhyn to be.

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  • She expected joy at the offer but felt wary instead.

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  • Kris's gaze flared again, and she assumed he'd expected her to ask for her freedom.

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  • The room was more welcoming than she expected, the stone walls covered and smoothed with Sheetrock painted a light green and edged with pumpkin orange.

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  • Wow. Not what I expected.

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  • She expected someone to be angry that there was a man in the women's wing.

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  • He.d expected things to change once he pledged his soul to Death, but he hadn.t expected anything so drastic, so soon.

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  • He never expected his long dead parents to respond but waited anyway.

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  • The healer sank next to her on the bed, large eyes darting around the room as if he expected the furniture to grow fangs and chase him.

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  • He expected Sasha to sense his betrayal, but Sasha.s gaze glowed for a different reason.

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  • He wasn.t sure what they expected of him; he.d never been included in any Council meeting.

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  • She wasn.t sure what she expected, but it wasn.t for him to fight for her, especially when she was already damned.

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  • The dinner party Evelyn threw to celebrate Kiera's first commissioned piece of art had been a success, as was expected.

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  • It was expected from Evelyn but not from the man himself.

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  • She relaxed into the comfortable black desk chair in front of her computer, wondering if Romas had told Evelyn of the half a dozen kids he expected.

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  • Evelyn looked defeated, and Kiera expected she had already covered the subject exhaustively.

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  • She expected real space to look closer if nothing else.

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  • She'd expected him to go out the window to avoid detection.

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  • He expected the news and turned away from the wall displaying his woman to the wall displaying his battle plans.

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  • The battles were silent, the swords clashing without the clang of steel she expected to hear.

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  • From the layout, she expected it was A'Ran's conference room for meeting with his advisors.

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  • It was a good, perfect little life, so much more than she ever expected, with the exception that her best friend in the universe-- Kiera-- might as well have been dead to her as far as Romas and his clan were concerned.

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  • If anything, he was gentle and patient, traits she hadn't expected from a warrior.

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  • His weren't the words she expected to hear.

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  • She expected to be left behind many more times.

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  • With a sense of deep dread, he felt for the first time that the role he expected of her may not be a role she chose to fulfill.

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  • She hadn't expected to be forced into such a decision.

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  • She expected another similar chamber with a low ceiling and plain walls and was stunned at the massive cave before her.

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  • They were going fast, much faster than he expected.

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  • With the town's elevation near eight thousand feet, plenty of snow was to be expected.

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  • Cynthia had received a phone call from the Boston sisters telling her their flight was delayed and they weren't now expected until late afternoon.

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  • It was not a reaction the Deans expected when Effie read the sordid confirmation her great aunt was a prostitute and carrying on an adulterous affair.

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  • Mother slept constantly, Cynthia said, but according to the doctor, her progress was "as expected."

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  • As well as can be expected.

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  • There was hurt in her eyes but not the anger Deidre expected.

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  • He never expected to see the blue sky again or the trees around the fortress, let alone sip sweet tea and nibble on berry scones.

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  • It wasn't what she expected.

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  • It took her a few minutes to become accustomed to the gearing, but she was shifting smoothly much quicker than he expected.

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  • He added a little tequila this time, and the absence of the plastic improved the taste more than he expected.

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  • It went exceptionally well, better than I expected.

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  • I really never expected it to hang anywhere, but I think you have the perfect spot for it.

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  • I expected to be convincing you to accept me today.

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  • Getting permission to turn Connor was simple, just as Jackson had expected.

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  • She told me you are expected to have children.

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  • How he expected to achieve that by feigning interest in the goats was a mystery, but at least he cared enough to make an effort.

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  • Of course, she would have expected nothing less of any animal Alex owned.

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  • Did he think she expected him to pay for her wedding?

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  • Carmen expected him to switch to being a big brother now.

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  • There's a lot more going on than we expected.

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  • He expected her to name off Tim and answer his unasked question about the relationship between the two of them.

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  • Faster than he expected, the door opposite them opened.

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  • Of course, no one had ever expected the nuke attacks to happen, even someone involved in the insurgent organization blamed for them.

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  • Let's say, this isn't what we expected.

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  • What isn't what you expected, Elise?

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  • Elise's news of the PMF fighting alongside her forces wasn't something Lana expected to hear.

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  • At any moment he expected the people around him to whip out lasers and attack.

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  • The woman before him was younger than he expected and cute in an elfin way, with large eyes, a tapered chin, delicate jaw line, and expressive brow.

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  • He hadn't expected her to be as small or exotically beautiful as she was.

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  • Though he took an oath to take care of her, he'd never expected she'd be lying in his bed, helpless against his world.

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  • She's not what I expected at all.

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  • She'd expected him to explode.

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  • Lana hadn't expected to sleep in so long but was grateful Elise had thought to leave her alone for the full night.

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  • The raw emotion was more of a turn-on than he expected.

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  • She'd never expected to see her condo again and couldn't shake the feeling it wouldn't be the same.

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  • The condo's layout was the same as hers, and she found the bathroom where she expected.

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  • He felt worse than he expected.

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  • So far, this wasn't what Lana expected.

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  • He hadn't expected the sudden loss to hurt like it did.

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  • Lana gazed at her, unable to shake her surprise that those in this small community were the opposite of what she expected.

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  • But this is so much better than anything I expected.

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  • It's working out better than any of us expected.

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  • It's not what I expected.

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  • She'd expected his voice to cause more confusion after she learned what he was, but she felt only comfort and hope.

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  • You're shorter than I expected.

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  • He pulled up the hood and strode into the forest, towards the castle.  Beneath the hood, he took in the numbers of demons present.  There weren't as many as he expected but far more than he could fight without his magic.

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  • Instead of the supportive response he expected, Kiki was quiet.

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  • The petite woman who materialized out of the shadows wasn't what he expected.  Her flawless features were unremarkable, her large eyes turning colors faster than his.

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  • Katie tore her eyes away from Gabe to follow where Toby was pointing, hoping to see Rhyn.  It wasn't Rhyn or anyone else she expected to see, and she gasped.

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  • Rhyn opened the door, surprised to find the jailer's room empty.  He'd expected Jared at least.  He closed the door quietly behind him.  He snatched the talisman hanging near the door, the one that freed inmates from their cells.  He ignored the quickening of his pulse as he entered the familiar cell block.

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  • You look better than I expected.

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  • The super-demon bowed his head and left.  Darkyn watched him go then looked again at the hourglass.  He hadn't expected Death to quit, but she was about to give him a new window of opportunity, one that might be more powerful.  He might soon take over the underworld and its army of souls.

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  • Dean expected a spirited argument at the very least, but tomorrow was Wednesday, Atlantic City day, and Fred needed a good night's sleep.

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  • When Dean pulled into his drive he was surprised to see the lights on, as he'd expected Fred to be out for the evening.

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  • Dean had wondered what the two hoods expected to find in his house.

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  • Dean went through the motions of checking the phone anyway, but found what he expected, absolutely nothing.

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  • On June 10, plans for his trip west began to come together, but not in the way Dean expected.

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  • It was warmer on Monday and Dean was pleased his body felt better than he expected.

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  • While he was disappointed, he hadn't expected much else.

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  • With each turn in the road he expected to see the summit but was only greeted with another long uphill climb until he lost track of the numbers.

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  • Did he talk to you about being faithful and what would be expected of you?

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  • Marriage was exactly what she expected and thought she would want – and yet there was something missing.

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  • Not exactly the reaction she had expected, but certainly not a negative one.

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  • Checking all the other pockets, she came up with what she would have expected – nothing.

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  • This threesome with Josh isn't what I expected.

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  • That was to be expected - but it was more than that.

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  • Never in her wildest dreams would she have expected him to react so strongly.

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  • He'd expected the Grey God's powers to be like the White God's, yet they weren't.

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  • Yeah. It's not as hard as I expected.

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  • She expected the blow to faze the Grey God, but it didn't.

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  • The idea of losing herself to Darian was more appealing than she expected.

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  • A different instinct went off in Darian's mind, one that recognized the look on the Black God's face as being another sign Jenn was in more trouble than expected.

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  • If her mind wasn't so scattered, she'd have thought it odd he expressed none of the surprise she expected.

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  • He expected the sight of her to stir the storm within him.

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  • Jenn expected him to run around the power coursing upward.

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  • She expected to feel the turmoil she'd felt before at his transition.

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  • As I expected, Memon has doubled his presence to the north and is hedging in from all other directions.

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  • She sniffed at the cider but found it smelled no differently than she expected.

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  • Not who we expected.

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  • I knew he was meant for greatness, but I expected him to serve me when I'd rid the kingdom of my father.

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  • The warlord's magic keeps them stronger than our enemies expected.

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  • She fell farther than she expected.

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  • She hadn't expected the words.

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  • So much was expected of him.

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  • Maybe that was to be expected of a personality like his.

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  • At first he expected Carmen to lead the tour, but she reminded him that he was equally responsible for the business.

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  • My life turned out so different than I expected.

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  • Alex couldn't be expected to handle everything and she couldn't be expected to consult him on everything.

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  • Obviously Alex expected him to take care of Carmen in his absence.

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  • Felipa kept watching Alex, as if she expected him to make an announcement.

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  • Evidently it wasn't at all the response he expected and his planned route was foiled.

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  • It was something he expected her to accept, but he hadn't.

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  • Denton was fastidious about his appearance and he expected the woman at his side to mirror that image.

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  • No doubt, he expected her to come back - begging his forgiveness.

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  • The house was nothing like what she expected.

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  • I just wanted to let you know I got here and everything is better than I expected.

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  • Clara couldn't be expected to know she hated being called Ms.

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  • Instead of the sweet taste she expected, it was bitter - like alum.

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  • I have to admit it wasn't what I expected to find, but it isn't so bad.

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  • Thanks to pain medication, Clarissa was resting as comfortably as could be expected.

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  • Of all the emotions she expected to feel on the day of her great victory, anger and guilt were not among them.

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  • When he emerged from his hallway, the Guardian he expected was seated in his living room.

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  • Xander handled the star-struck woman with amusement she expected and patience she didn't.

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  • His touch was gentler than she expected.

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  • She expected to see Xander on the porch or somewhere in the living area.

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  • Xander was right about hook-ups being expected at these parties.

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  • He heard the brush of skin against metal, as if someone had Traveled to a spot with tighter quarters than expected.

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  • She was at anchor surrounded by baulks of timber, and a cordon of boats had been stationed to row guard against an expected Federal attack.

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  • During these two or three years of incessant political intrigue and warfare it was not to be expected that the Lateran council should accomplish much.

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  • Although Mount Everest appears fairly bright at 100 miles' distance, as seen from the neighbourhood of Darjeeling, we cannot suppose that the atmosphere is as transparent as is implied in the above numbers; and, of course, this is not to be expected, since there is certainly suspended matter to be reckoned with.

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  • This is at least of the order observed, which is all that can be expected from a calculation which assumes I + and I_ equal.

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  • Although this separation might have been expected to be final, it is not certain that it was so.

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  • In person Propertius was pale and thin, as was to be expected in one of a delicate and even sickly constitution.

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  • The Trias does not belong, as might have been expected, to the Alpine or Mediterranean type; but resembles that of Germany and northern Europe.

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  • Native capital is lacking, and taxation on unremunerative lands is, as elsewhere in Italy, too heavy in proportion to what they may be expected to produce, and not sufficiently elastic in case of a bad harvest.

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  • But with all these often opposed conditions, we find less variation than might be expected, the main and really important divergence being due to the necessity of transposition, which added a very high pitch to the primarily convenient low one.

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  • Shams al-Ma t adi Qabus, the generous ruler of Dailam, himself a poet and a scholar, with whom he had expected to find an asylum, was about that date (1012) starved to death by his own revolted soldiery.

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  • In the absence of literary culture the Albanian dialects, as might be expected, are widely divergent; the limits of the two principal dialects correspond with the racial boundaries of the Ghegs and Tosks, who understand each other with difficulty; the Albanians in Greece and Italy have also separate dialects.

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  • Scotland had produced nothing, and was perhaps the last country in Europe from which a great mathematical discovery would have been expected.

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  • A very considerable percentage of Argentina's population of five to six millions is hopelessly poor and unprogressive, and cannot be expected to bear its share of the burden.

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  • The electoral districts so formed are expected to be equal in proportion to the number of inhabitants; but this method has led to much abuse in the past, through the making of unequal districts for partisan purposes.

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  • As most of the records appealed to are from temple archives, it may be expected that the Sabbath days would show an increased number of records.

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  • In a region so extensive very great varieties of climate are naturally to be expected, but it may be stated as a general law that the climate of Australia is milder than that of corresponding lands in the northern hemisphere.

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  • He is expected one day to awake and eat up the world.

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  • Irish in a league against the supporters of the parliament, and only a few scattered forts held out for the Commonwealth, while the young king was every day expected to land and complete the conquest of the island.

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  • Cromwell expected more results from the effects of education and culture.

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  • Shelburne expected great service from him as a pamphleteer, but Watson proved from the ministerial point of view a most impracticable prelate.

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  • In the large towns banking and commerce flourish to a degree beyond what might be expected.

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  • In commercial matters, payment in kind was still common, though the contracts usually stipulate for cash, naming the standard expected, that of Babylon, Larsa, Assyria, Carchemish, &c. The Code enacted, however, that a debtor must be allowed to pay in produce according to statutory scale.

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  • This was done by contract, which usually specified what the parent had to leave and what maintenance was expected.

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  • When crossing a desert camels are expected to carry their loads 25 m.

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  • As might be expected, progress has been most rapid wherever education, at the moment of national unification, was most widely diffused.

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  • But he did not move so fast in the path of reform as was expected, and agitation continued throughout the papal states.i In 1847 some administrative reforms were enacted, the laity were admitted to certain offices, railways were talked about, and political newspapers permitted.

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  • The Neapolitans were ignominiously beaten in May and retired to the frontier; on the 1st of June Oudinot declared that he would attack Rome on the 4th, but by beginning operations on the 3rd, when no attack was expected, he captured an important position in the Pamphili gardens.

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  • If Piedmont was to be fitted for the part which optimists expected it to play, everything must be built up anew.

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  • On the 24th he captured Monte Rotondo, but did not enter Rome as the expected insurrection had not broken out.

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  • Considerations such as these could not be expected to appeal to the nation at large, which hailed the advent of the Left as the dawn of an era of unlimited popular sovereignty, diminished administrative pressure, reduction of taxation and general prosperity.

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  • Unfortunately in the case of Signor Sonnino public opinion expected too much and did not take to the idea of such a compromise.

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  • Expected or not, the primacy was forced upon him within a very few months of his marriage.

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  • The business of the divorce - or rather, of the legitimation of Anne Boleyn's expected issue - had now become very urgent, and in the new archbishop he had an agent who might be expected to forward it with the needful haste.

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  • As regards the Brahman, he would doubtless be chosen from one of those other three classes, but would be expected to have made himself thoroughly conversant with the texts and ritual details appertaining to all the officiating priests.

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  • In view of the great resemblance between Microhydra and the polyp of Limnocodium, it might be expected that the medusae to which they give origin would also be similar.

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  • Buffon remarked that the same temperature might have been expected, all other circumstances being equal, to produce the same beings in different parts of the globe, both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Yet lawns in the United States are destitute of the common English daisy, the wild hyacinth of the woods of the United Kingdom is absent from Germany, and the foxglove from Switzerland.

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  • Sequoia and the tulip-tree still remain; figs are abundant; laurels are represented by Sassafras and camphor; herbaceous plants (Ranunculaceae, Cruciferae, Umbelliferae) are present, though, as might be expected, only fragmentarily preserved.

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  • Fossil Birds Much had naturally been expected from the study of fossil birds, but, so far as the making of classifications is concerned, they have proved rather a source of perplexities.

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  • In any case the various Nearctic subdivisions completely merge into each other, just as is to be expected from the physical configuration and other bionomic conditions of the North American continent.

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  • It will therefore be seen from the above that next to the Nearctic area the Palaearctic has a much greater affinity to any other, a fact which might be expected from geographical considerations.

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  • So far we have dealt with forms of address explicitly directed towards a power that, one might naturally conclude, has personality, since it is apparently expected to hear and answer.

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  • In return for Russia's service in preventing the aid of Austria from being given to France, Gorchakov looked to Bismarck for diplomatic support in the Eastern Question, and he received an instalment of the expected support when he successfully denounced the Black Sea clauses of the treaty of Paris.

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  • The admission is now general that the Bible cannot be expected to use the language of scientific astronomy.

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  • All Maoris are natural orators and poets, and a chief was expected to add these accomplishments to his prowess as a warrior or his skill as a seaman.

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  • In the expected war with Poland, which followed quickly, the Russians were so successful that the arrangement was upheld; but it was soon found that the Cossacks, though they professed unbounded devotion to the Orthodox tsar, disliked Muscovite, quite as much as Polish, interference in their internal affairs, and some of their leaders were in favour of substituting federation with Poland for annexation by Russia.

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  • The innovations, it must be admitted, did not prove so efficient as he expected, because human nature and traditional habits cannot be changed as quickly as institutions.

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  • They had fought for freedom in order to liberate themselves not only from the yoke of Napoleon but also from the tyranny of their own governments, whereas he expected them to remain submissively under the patriarchal institutions which their native rulers imposed on them.

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  • This arrangement was expected to ensure a sufficient change in air to keep such railways properly ventilated, but experience has proved it to be ineffective for the purpose.

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  • Though expected to take part in the negotiations which led in 1648 to the peace of Westphalia, he refused to deliberate with heretics, and protested against the treaties when completed.

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  • After breakfast " he was expected," he says, to spend an hour with Mrs Gibbon; after tea his father claimed his conversation; in the midst of an interesting work he was often called down to entertain idle visitors; and, worst of all, he was periodically compelled to return the well-meant compliments.

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  • More usually, however, the ring might be expected not to be uniform, and, therefore, to condense in some parts more rapidly than in others.

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  • The alliance between Owen Roe and Ormonde had been opposed by Phelim O'Neill, who after his kinsman's death expected to be restored to his former position of command.

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  • Many instances of exaggerated and apparently unnatural structure nevertheless occur, as in the case of the genera Pangonia, Nemestrina, Achias, Diopsis and the family Celyphidae, .and, as might be expected, it is chiefly in tropical species that these peculiarities are found.

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  • If the latter actually occurred, the hostility of the Israelite prophets is only to be expected.

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  • The whole gives an impression of unity, which is designed, and is to be expected in a compilation.

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  • Ananus the high priest, their leader, remained in command at Jerusalem; Galilee, where the first attack was to be expected, was entrusted to Josephus, the historian of the war.

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  • At the end of 1909 was held the first conference of Jewish ministers in London, and from this is expected some more systematic organization of scattered communities.

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  • The Cretans themselves, however, were eager for a change, and, disappointed in the hope of a Genoese occupation, were ready, as is stated in the report of a Venetian commissioner, to exchange the rule of the Venetians for that of the Turks, whom they fondly expected to find more lenient, or at any rate less energetic, masters.

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  • These dictators appointed for minor purposes were expected to retire from office as soon as their function was completed.

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  • But, as was to be expected, their mysticism moves in that comparatively narrow round, and consists simply in the heaping up of these sensuous experiences.

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  • Even his sister wore no mourning for him until she arrived at Vienna and saw that this was expected of her.

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  • The embassy threw out a hint, - their lord was dead and David himself had been anointed king over Judah; but the relation between Jabesh-Gilead and Saul had been a close one, and it was not to be expected that its eyes would be turned upon the king of Judah when Saul's son was installed at the not distant Mahanaim.

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  • There were men of stronger build than the weak Ishbaal and the crippled son of Jonathan, the survivors of Saul's house, and it is only to be expected that David's first care must have been to cement the union of the north and south.

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  • In the discharge of these duties they are expected to visit each family in the congregation at least once a year.

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  • At this point Aratus appealed to Sparta to help the Achaeans in repelling an expected Aetolian attack, and Agis was sent to the Isthmus at the head of an army.

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  • They have generally the lofty brow, the regular features, the spare upright figure, and the calm aspect which might be expected in a race maintained in great purity yet upon a broad basis.

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  • At the Restoration, instead of being recalled to England, as he probably expected and certainly desired, he was appointed to the see of Down and Connor, to which was shortly added the small adjacent diocese of Dromore.

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  • The utter exhaustion of his people in the course of a hopeless struggle with Holland, France and England was seen by him with sympathy, but he considered it an unavoidable misfortune and not the result of his own errors, since he could not be expected to renounce his rights or to desert the cause of God and the Church.

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  • In the south, and in the plains, the harvest, as might be expected, commenced some weeks earlier than in the northern and mountainous districts.

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  • Like her brother, she had all the domestic virtues, and, as was to be expected of a sister of Louis XVI., she was in favour of absolutist principles.

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  • Mill complains that his father often required more than could be expected of him, but his tasks were not so severe as to prevent him from growing up a healthy and high-spirited boy, though he was not constitutionally robust, and his pursuits were so different from those of other boys of the same age.

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  • It never has been, and never can be, more than an indication of the kind of thing which might he expected in a purely hypothetical world.

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  • He possessed all the qualifications she expected from an archbishop except celibacy.

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  • The poet was at that moment in the bath, and seeing the sacks, and believing that they contained the expected gold, received them with great satisfaction, but finding only silver he complained to Ayaz that he had not executed the sultan's order.

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  • This is, as might be expected, what is found to be the case in all " reversed " Gastropods.

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  • Everything, therefore, portended a change in this sphere, but few persons expected a change so drastic as that which Bonaparte now brought about in the measure of 28 Pluviose, year VIII.

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  • As was natural, when he sought to steer a middle course between the Scylla of royalism and the Charybdis of Jacobinism, disturbances were to be expected on both sides of the consular ship of state.

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  • The partition of Turkey had to be postponed; the financial collapse of England could not be expected now that she framed an alliance with the Spanish patriots and had their markets and those of their colonies opened to her; and the discussions with the tsar Alexander, which had not gone quite smoothly, now took a decidedly unfavourable turn.

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  • Mainly, it would seem, because he desired hurriedly to screen the refusal, which might at any time be expected from the Russian court, under the appearance of a voluntary choice of an Austrian archduchess.

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  • Further, an alliance with the House of Habsburg might be expected to wean the Germans from all thought of gaining succour from that quarter.

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  • The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

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  • It is at the solution of these two questions that philosophy in the immediate future may be expected to work.

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  • As regards doctrine, the work is exhaustive; but it is diffuse, obscure, and occasionally selfcontradictory, as might be expected in a work which consists of a number of unconnected paragraphs of various authorship and date.

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  • This charge he resigned in the next year, and, after making arrangements for the protection of his northern diocese from an expected inroad of the Scots, he proceeded in July 1336 to France to attempt a settlement of the claims in dispute between Edward and Philip. In the next year he served on three commissions for the defence of the northern counties.

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  • If we admit that the larva has, in the phylogeny of insects, gradually diverged from the imago, and if we recollect that in the ontogeny the larva has always to become the imago (and of course still does so) notwithstanding the increased difficulty of the transformation, we cannot but recognize that a period of helplessness in which the transformation may take place is to be expected.

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  • Two supplementary parts were issued in 1835 and 1840 respectively, and the work for many years deservedly maintained the highest position as the authority on European ornithology-indeed in England it may almost without exaggeration be said to have been nearly the only foreign ornithological work known; but, as could only be expected, grave defects are now to be discovered in it.

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  • That the eggs laid by birds should offer to some extent characters of utility to systematists is only to be expected, when it is considered that those from the same nest generally bear an extraordinary family likeness to one another, and also that in certain groups the essential peculiarities of the egg-shell are constantly and distinctively characteristic. Thus no one who has ever examined the egg of a duck or of a tinamou would ever be in danger of not referring another tinamou's egg or another duck's, that he might see, to its proper family, and so on with many others.

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  • He returned instantly before any one expected him, and took the city by surprise.

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  • The depth of the middle portion of the lake has not yet been measured, but must exceed 500 fathoms. It was expected that an underground ridge would be found connecting Olkhon with Svyatoi Nos; but depths exceeding 622 fathoms have been sounded even along that line.

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  • A man accustomed to devote the whole of his time to the study of demand and supply in relation to cotton, after some years of experience, will be qualified ordinarily to form fairly accurate judgments of the prices to be expected.

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  • Demands for yarn cannot be expected to come always at the most favourable time socially for the distribution of the cotton.

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  • In this table measurements of price movements stated both absolutely and as percentages of price levels are given, because authorities have expressed doubts as to whether the former or the latter might be expected to remain constant, other things being equal, when price rose.

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  • The First Crusade was not, indeed, what Alexius had asked or expected to receive.

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  • The conquest of Zara, a port on the Adriatic claimed by the Venetians from the king of Hungary, was the only object overtly mentioned; but the idea of the expedition to Constantinople was in the air, and the crusaders knew what was ultimately expected.

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  • Their language, which is neither monosyllabic nor tonic, has nothing in common with that of the MonAnnam group. It has, moreover, been pointed out that had the Malays been driven southwards by the stronger races of the mainland of Asia, it might be expected that the people inhabiting the country nearest to the border between Siam and Malaya would belong to the Malayan and not to the Mon-Annam or Mon-Khmer stock.

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  • Owing to the configuration of the soil, the climate of Moravia varies more than might be expected in so small an area, so that, while the vine and maize are cultivated successfully in the southern plains, the weather in the mountainous districts is somewhat rigorous.

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  • Moslem women, as a rule, are expected to say their prayers at home, but in some few mosques they are admitted to one part specially screened off for them.

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  • When, as in the formation of naphthalene tetrachloride, for example, the one ring becomes saturated, the other might be expected to assume the normal centric form and become relatively inactive.

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  • The second method possesses greater advantages, for rings of approximate stability come in one group, and, consequently, their derivatives may be expected to exhibit considerable analogies.

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  • If, on the other hand, the sulphur system be replaced by a corresponding selenium system, an element of higher atomic weight, it would be expected that a slight increase would be observed in the vertical parameter, and a greater increase recorded equally in the horizontal parameters.

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  • The following table shows where isomorphism may be generally expected.

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  • Although Caesar could hardly have expected the bill to pass, the aristocratic party would be saddled with the odium of rejecting a popular measure, and the people themselves would be more ready to welcome a proposal by Caesar himself, an expectation fulfilled by the passing of the lex Julia in 59, whereby Caesar at least partly succeeded where Rullus had failed.

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  • Euripides, as might be expected from his humanitarian cast of sentiment, and the " premature modernism " which has been remarked in him, rises above the ordinary feelings of his time in regard to the slaves.

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  • When the work of conquest had been achieved, it could not be expected that a radical alteration should be suddenly wrought either in the social system which was in harmony with it, or even in the general ideas which had grown up under its influence.

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  • Even under Theodosius the combats of the amphitheatre were permitted, if not encouraged, by the state authorities; these sports were still expected from the candidates for public honours.

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  • Macaulay, James Stephen, and others, continued the struggle, only suspending it during a period allowed to the local legislatures for carrying into effect the measures expected from them.

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  • On the 23rd of July all was confusion at the depots, and the leaders were divided as to the course to be pursued; orders were not obeyed; a trusted messenger despatched for arms absconded with the money committed to him to pay for them; treachery, quite unsuspected by Emmet, honeycombed the conspiracy; the Wicklow contingent failed to appear; the Kildare men turned back on hearing that the rising had been postponed; a signal expected by a contingent at the Broadstone was never given.

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  • Yet it cannot be expected that every man should accept the faith without reasoning; and here Ficino found a place for Platonism.

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  • Around the hermit of Hyeres, Hugh of Digne, was formed a group of Franciscans who expected from the advent of the third age the triumph of their ascetic ideas.

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  • Also in eschatology, as may be expected, a change took place.

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  • The Catacombs of Rome are the most extensive with which we are acquainted, and, as might be expected in the centre of the Christian world, are in many respects the most remarkable.

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  • It was the basis and starting-point of his opinions that, under the empire of capital and so long as the working man was merely a receiver of wages, no improvement in his condition could be expected.

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  • At her birth, she had been exposed on a hill, her father having expected a son.

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  • Various administrative reforms were in hand in 1910-1911, by which it was expected considerably to reduce the credits demanded by the finance ministry - especially those in connexion with the holy cities.

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  • It is not expected that military expenditure can be much reduced, except in the direction of supply contracts, which have been the cause in the past of iniquitous waste of means.

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  • The immediate results of the battle were not, however, as decisive as might have been expected.

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  • His influence upon his successors has scarcely been as far-reaching as might have been expected - a circumstance which is perhaps in some measure owing to the unfamiliar dialect in which he wrote.

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  • By constructing an entrenched camp at Ulm and concentrating all the available food within it, he expected to compel Napoleon to invest and besiege him, and he anticipated that in the devastated country his adversary would be compelled to separate and thus fall an easy prey to the Russians.

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  • Here help was expected to arrive from England, and the tide might yet have turned, for the Russian armies were gathering in the east.

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  • This time, however, Bennigsen, with over 60,000 men in position and 15,000 Prussians expected to arrive next morning, had no desire to avoid a battle, and deployed for action, his front protected by great batteries of guns, many of them of heavy calibre, numbering some 200 in all.

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  • During the night Augereau and the Guards had arrived, and Ney and Davout were expected on either flank in the forenoon.

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  • They had three children; there was no scandal between them; the baron obtained money and the lady obtained, as a guaranteed ambassadress of a foreign power of consideration, a much higher position at court and in society than she could have secured by marrying almost any Frenchman, without the inconveniences which might have been expected had she married a Frenchman superior to herself in rank.

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  • This iron seems, however, in several respects to be unlike the celebrated large nodules of iron found by Nordenskiold at Ovifak, but appears to resemble much more closely the softer kind of iron nodules found by Steenstrup in the basalt;' it stands exposure to the air equally well, and has similar Widmannstaten figures very sharp, as is to be expected in such a large mass.

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  • It might be expected that there should be a decrease in the Greenland seal fisheries, caused by the European and American sealers catching larger quantities every year, especially along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, and so actually diminishing the number of the animals in the Greenland seas.

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  • So far as we know, however, no case has yet been recorded of a peach or a nectarine producing an almond, or vice versa, although if all have had a common origin such an event might be expected.

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  • Soult Passage of expected the passage of the Douro to be attempted the Douro, near its mouth, with fishing craft; but Wellesley, by May 12,1809, a daring surprise, crossed (May 12) close above Oporto, and also by a ford higher up. After some fighting Oporto was taken, and Soult driven back.

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  • Wellington, convinced that no effort to bridge below Bayonne would be expected, decided to attempt it there, and collected at St Jean Pied de Port and Passages a large number of country vessels (termed chasse-marees).

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  • The officers of the Church during the first few centuries of its existence were content to officiate in the dress of civil life, though their garments were expected to be scrupulously clean and of decent quality.

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  • It is therefore to be expected that as time goes on the quality of " plantation " rubber will improve, and there would seem to be no reason why it should not eventually be fully equal to that of the " wild " rubber.

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  • Each year, however, the output of " plantation " rubber will show a considerable increase, and it is to be expected that ultimately this will form the chief source of supply, unless unforeseen circumstances should arise to interfere with the development of the plantation industry, which has been vigorously started chiefly with European capital in the tropical possessions of Great Britain, France and Germany.

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  • America, and it is therefore probable that with greater experience as to the best methods of tapping and with older trees considerably larger yields may be expected from plantations in the future.

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  • Finally, the laws of distribution of animals over Siberia cannot be made out until the changes undergone by its surface during the Glacial and Lacustrine periods are well established and the Post-Tertiary fauna is better known The remarkable finds of Quaternary mammals about Omsk and their importance for the history of the Equidae are merely a slight indication of what may be expected in this field.

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  • As a rule, this kind of colonization has not produced the results that were expected.

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  • He confidently expected to be nominated for president in 1844, and his famous letter of the 27th of April, in which he frankly opposed the immediate annexation of Texas, though doubtless contributing greatly to his defeat, was not made public until he felt practically sure of the nomination.

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  • The transits of Venus observed in 1874 and 1882 might be expected to hold a leading place in the discussion.

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  • In the light of future researches further development may reasonably be expected.

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  • Ewing has also examined the effects produced by longitudinal compression upon the susceptibility and retentiveness of nickel, and found, as was to be expected, that both were greatly increased by pressure.

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  • Now nickel contracts instead of lengthening when it is magnetized, and an experiment by Knott showed, as he expected, that caeteris paribus a nickel wire twists in a sense opposite to that in which iron twists.

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  • On his accession to the throne in 1840 much was expected of a prince so variously gifted and of so amiable a temper, and his first acts did not belie popular hopes.

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  • The first of these charges cannot be denied; but it is hard to see why a lawyer of the 6th century, himself born in a Greek-speaking part of the empire, should be expected to write Latin as pure as that of the age of Cicero, or even of the age of Gaius and the Antonines.

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  • When he is an emperor, a king, or a president of a republic, it is not expected that he will act personally; he may appoint a delegate or delegates to act on his behalf, and avail himself of their labours and views, the ultimate decision being his only in name.

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  • His object was to found a great empire; but this was a project at variance with the wishes of his employers - an association of merchants, who were dissatisfied because the wealth which they expected to see flowing into their coffers was expended in promoting the permanent interests of a distant country.

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  • As was expected the result was the election everywhere of ultraliberals opposed to the emperor, and in the succeeding year people everywhere exhibited their disaffection.

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  • A charming style, a vivid fancy, exhaustive research, were not to be expected from a hard-worked barrister; but he must certainly be held responsible for the frequent plagiarisms, the still more frequent inaccuracies of detail, the colossal vanity which obtrudes on almost every page,'the hasty insinuations against the memory of the great departed who were to him as giants, and the petty sneers which he condescends to print against his own contemporaries, with whom he was living from day to day on terms of apparently sincere friendship.

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  • The king soon after presented him with the title of Professor, and with the Rosenkrantz grant of loo dollars for four years, the holder of which was expected to travel.

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  • As might be expected in a country possessing the physical features of Natal, the gradients and curves are exceptionally severe.

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  • The various parties meanwhile had split up into some half a dozen sub-sections; but the expected fusion of the party of independence and the government fell through, and the barren struggle continued till the celebration of the millennium of the foundation of the monarchy produced for some months a lull in politics.

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  • But a nation that for a thousand years had maintained its individuality in the midst of hostile and rival races could not be expected to allow itself without a struggle to be sacrificed to the force of mere numbers, and the less so if it were justified in its claim that it stood for a higher ideal of culture and civilization.

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  • But religious people could hardly be expected to see in the worldly prince-bishops of the Empire, or the wealthy courtier-prelates of France, the trustees of the apostolical tradition.

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  • The gross estimated rental is the rent at which a property might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, the tenant paying tithes, rates and taxes.

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  • As an application of this result, let us investigate what amount of temperature disturbance in the tube of a telescope may be expected to impair definition.

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  • The general nature of the effects to be expected in such a case may be made clear by means of an illustration already employed for another purpose.

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  • He inherited a strong sentiment of independence from his mother; and his objections to the social homage expected by those whom the catechism boldly styled his "betters" made him an "agitator."

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  • If our results are imperfect and liable to correction, that is only to be expected in the present position of the historical study of the Bible.

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  • In fact no progress can be expected in the accurate study of the prophets until the editorial activity both of the great prophets themselves and of their more reflective and studious successors is fully recognized.

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  • A word or two may perhaps be expected on Isa.

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  • In any case the doctor had expected more help from a professed patron of literature, and wrote the earl the famous letter in defence of men of letters.

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  • The former, bred in the tradition of the Napoleonic battle, looked for the decision only from the employment of "masses"; the latter, trained with the breech-loader and without war experience, expected to decide battles by infantry fire only.

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  • The times at which crises were to be expected were naturally looked for with anxiety; and it was a cardinal point in the Hippocratic system to foretell them with precision.

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  • Hippocrates, influenced as is thought by the Pythagorean doctrines of number, taught that they were to be expected on days fixed by certain numerical rules, in some cases on odd, in others on even numbers - the celebrated doctrine of "critical days."

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  • So various are the conditions of selfregulation in various animals, both in respect of their peculiar and several modes of assimilating different foods, and of protecting themselves against particular dangers from without, that, as we might have expected, the bloods taken from different species, or even perhaps from different individuals, are found to be so divergent that the healthy serum of one species may be, and often is, poisonous to another; not so much in respect of adventitious substances, as because the phases of physiological change in different species do not harmonize; each by its peculiar needs has been modified until, in their several conditions of life, they vary so much about the mean as to have become almost if not quite alien one to another.

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  • It may therefore be expected to retain evidence of the existence of a Pomoerium and Territorium as at Rome.

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  • Wyat took possession of Southwark, and expected to have been admitted into London; but finding the gates shut against him and the drawbridge cut down he marched to Kingston, the bridge at which place had been destroyed.

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  • The ship captain ordered the red pennant to be raised on the ship to show that the weather was changing and rough seas were expected.

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  • Birdwood in securing close contact with the contingents that had landed at Suvla on the night of the 6th-7th, and from which substantial support had been expected.

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  • The carefully devised scheme of operations from which they had expected so much had come to naught in its most important features.

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  • Then, on Dec. 28, Monro received the expected sanction for evacuating that area also, and Birdwood promptly grappled with this fresh problem.

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  • The siphon is a simple instrument; but the forcing-pump is a complicated invention, which could scarcely have been expected in the infancy of hydraulics.

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  • Some time must elapse before absolute uniformity in the transliteration of these proper names is to be expected; and since different scholars still adopt varying spellings of Babylonian and Assyrian proper names, it has been considered undesirable in this work to ignore the fact in individual articles contributed by them.

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  • Under the guidance of such a principle the writer naturally expected the world's culmination in evil to be the immediate precursor of God's intervention on behalf of the righteous, and every fresh growth in evil to be an additional sign that the time was at hand.

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  • The system worked well at first, but abuses soon crept in, and many persons were unjustly excluded from office; trouble being expected in 1335 a captain of the guard was created.

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  • In Scotland there were public almsmen supported by the king and expected in return to pray for his welfare and that of the state.

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  • That such inferiority may be expected to disappear is suggested by the success of vine-culture in Madeira and the Canary Islands.

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  • It is seen that aldoses and ketoses which differ stereochemically in only the two final carbon atoms must yield the same osazone; and since d-mannose, d-glucose, and d-fructose do form the same osazone (d-glucosazone) differences either structural or stereochemical must be placed in the two final carbon atoms.3 It may here be noticed that in the sugars there are asymmetric carbon atoms, and consequently optical isomers are to be expected.

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  • Itlis not a more untrustworthy account than a vehement controversialist engaged in a life and death struggle might be expected to write of his theological antagonists.

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  • The specific gravity of zinc cannot be expected to be perfectly constant; according to Karsten, that of pure ingot is 6.915, and rises to 7.191 after rolling.

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  • Doughty adds that the Nejd highlands between Kasim and Mecca are watered yearly by seasonable rains, which at Taif are expected about the end of August and last commonly from four to six weeks.

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  • Aluminium bronze (aluminium and copper) and ferro-aluminium (aluminium and iron) have been made in this way; the latter is the more satisfactory product, because a certain proportion of carbon is expected in an alloy of this character, as in ferromanganese and cast iron, and its presence is not objectionable.

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  • Nothing was to be expected from the declining Empire.

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  • They expected 70,000 men, but only a few thousand appeared.

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  • For while the expected " end of the age " delayed, persecutions abounded.

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  • Mill applied to them again, but with the exception of Grote, who sent a small sum, they gave Comte to understand that they expected him to earn his own living.

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  • He felt the majesty of these truths to be the greater that they so represented to him not only the most fundamental of human beliefs, but also all that man could be reasonably expected to believe, though to believe with his whole reason.

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  • By the treaty of the 16th of April 1816, by which the territorial disputes between Austria and Bavaria were settled, the succession to the Baden Palatinate was guaranteed to Maximilian I., king of Bavaria, in the expected event of the extinction of the line of Zahringen.

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  • He began, as was to be expected in his father's son, by supporting the court; and in 1770, when only twenty-one, he was appointed a junior lord of the admiralty with Lord North.

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  • And Fox was too independent to please a master who expected obedience.

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  • This half measure was as ineffective as was to have been expected.

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  • Vanadium, molybdenum and titanium may be expected soon to play an important part in the constitution of steel.

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  • In March 1714 Herville, the French envoy in London, sent to Torcy, the French foreign minister in Paris, the substance of two long conversations with Bolingbroke in which the latter advised patience till after the accession of George, when a great reaction was to be expected in favour of the Pretender.

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  • Despite the strong and graphic touches here and there, exhibiting the impression which the beauty of sea and land, the splendour of Constantinople, the magnitude of the effete but still imposing Greek power, made on him, there is not only an entire absence of dilation on such subjects as a modern would have dilated on (that was to be expected), but an absence likewise of the elaborate and painful description of detail in which contemporary trouveres would have indulged.

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  • From the district of Yukon (Klondike, &c.) £2,800,000 was obtained in 1899, wholly from alluvial workings, but the progress made since has been slower than was expected by sanguine people.

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  • This decrease was largely caused by the practical suspension for many years of the hydraulic mining operations, in preparation for which millions of dollars had been expended in deep tunnels, flumes, &c., and the active continuance of which might have been expected to yield some £2,000,000 of gold annually.

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  • The gold product of California, therefore, may be fairly expected to maintain itself, and, indeed, to show an advance.

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  • From Strido he went to Aquileia, where he formed some friendships among the monks of the large monastery, notably with Rufinus, with whom he was destined to quarrel bitterly over the question of Origen's orthodoxy and worth as a commentator; for Jerome was a man who always sacrificed a friend to an opinion, and when he changed sides in a controversy expected his acquaintances to follow him.

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  • In so barren and rude a country the manufacturing industry of its people is, as might be expected, in a low stage, the few articles produced being all destined for home consumption.

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  • By September food and ammunition were getting scarce, a large relieving force was expected from Sicily, and Piali became restive, on the approach of the equinox, for the safety of his galleys.

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  • But it was obvious that a permanent coalition could not be expected unless some definite understanding on the debated point could be attained; and on the very same day the landgrave despatched to Zwingli an invitation to a colloquy, and received his prompt acquiescence.

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  • A terrible panic prevailed in London, where an attack was expected.

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  • Machiavelli judged the case of Italy so desperate that salvation could only be expected from the intervention of a powerful despot.

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  • Mazarin died in the next year; but so strong was the feeling that the kings of France could only rule through a first minister that it was generally expected that Mazarin would soon have a successor.

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  • It was expected that he would move towards Lynchburg, as part of a combined movement against Lee's communications.

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  • The living Nero was no longer expected to return from the East, but Nero was to be restored to life from the abyss by the dragon, i.e.

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  • The questions, what is the total amount of available coal in the coalfields of Great Britain and Ireland, and how long it may be expected to last, have frequently been discussed since the early part of the 19th century, and particular attention was directed to them after the publication of Stanley Jevons's book on The Coal Question in 1865.

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  • The thickness varies according to the pressure expected, but may be taken at from 4 to i 2 in.

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  • A great future was expected from its use in the liquid state, since a cylinder fitted with the necessary reducing valves would supply the gas to light a house for a considerable period, the liquid occupying about T h.

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  • The journey, which appears to have been undertaken with the usual passport, and under the protection of several powerful Bohemian friends (John of Chlum, Wenceslaus of Duba, Henry of Chlum) who accompanied him, was a very prosperous one; and at almost all the halting-places he was received with a consideration and enthusiastic sympathy which he had hardly expected to meet with anywhere in Germany.

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  • Our friends were greatly surprised to see us, as they had not expected us before the last of this month.

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  • I'm enjoying my work even more than I expected to, which is another way of saying that I'm glad I came.

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  • Besides, there was a still more terrible standing invitation to call at every one of these houses, and company expected about these times.

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  • It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.

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  • The old prince had gone to the town and was expected back any minute.

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  • His eyes, screwed up with fear as if he every moment expected another blow, gazed up at Rostov with shrinking terror.

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  • If it is said that he expected to end the campaign by occupying Moscow as he had ended a previous campaign by occupying Vienna, there is much evidence to the contrary.

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  • Napoleon made ironic remarks during Fabvier's account, as if he had not expected that matters could go otherwise in his absence.

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  • They seemed not to have expected him to talk like anybody else, and the discovery that he did so delighted them.

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  • Even before he gave that order the thing he did not desire, and for which he gave the order only because he thought it was expected of him, was being done.

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  • Those who had quitted Moscow already in July and at the beginning of August showed that they expected this.

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  • Kris was crushed, and Rhyn wasn.t sure how his eldest surviving brother hadn.t expected the rest of them to walk away.

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  • She'd never dated a man half as handsome, annoying, or caring as Romas, and she expected there were very few men like him to go around.

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  • The fact that at this stage the polarization is a maximum, when the angle through which the light is turned exceeds a right angle, is the more worthy of note, as the opposite result would probably have been expected.

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  • The sentence he expected was pronounced on the 6th of July in the presence of Sigismund and a full sitting of the council; once and again he attempted to remonstrate, but in vain, and finally he betook himself to silent prayer.

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  • The larger species, as might be expected from their heavier build, are somewhat less strictly arboreal in their habits than the smaller ones.

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  • Here was the only good ground for mounted troops, and Marlborough followed Tallard's example when forming up to attack, but it resulted from the dispositions of the French marshal that this weak point of junction of his two armies was exactly that at which decisive action was to be expected.

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  • The Mahommedans had all this time refrained from attacking the capital as had been expected.

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  • The forms of poetical composition chiefly cultivated by the Alexandrians were epic and lyric, or elegiac. Great epics are wanting; but in their place, as might almost have been expected, are found the historical and the didactic or expository epics.

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  • Some of the best productions of the school were their epigrams. Of these we have several specimens, and the art of composing them seems to have been assiduously cultivated, as might naturally be expected from the court life of the poets, and their constant endeavours after terseness and neatness of expression.

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  • All the citizens were expected to attend the annual town-meeting, and such male inhabitants as were not citizens were privileged to attend and to propose and discuss measures, although they had no right to vote.

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  • The new liberties, as might be expected, did not tend to improve the relations between the town of Utrecht and its ecclesiastical sovereign; and the feud reached its climax (1481-84) in the "groote vorlag," or great quarrel, between the citizens and Bishop David, the Bastard of Burgundy, who had been foisted upon the unwilling chapter by the combined pressure of Duke Philip of Burgundy, his half-brother, and the pope.

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  • America, broadening in the north as if to span the oceans by reaching to its neighbours on the east and west, tapering between vast oceans far to the south where the nearest land is in the little-known Antarctic regions, roughly presents the triangular outline that is to be expected from tetrahedral warping; and although greatly broken in the middle, and standing with the northern and southern parts out of a meridian line, America is nevertheless the best witness among the continents of to-day to the tetrahedral theory.

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  • The Indies were expected to supply precious metals and raw materials, and to take all manufactures from the mother country.

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  • He places himself in a sense within the dogmatic circle by his declaration that guidance is to be expected from developments - in a " free Protestant evangelical spirit " - out of the old confessions of the Protestant churches.

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  • Imprisonment on such a charge under Northumberland might have been expected to lead to liberation under Mary.

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  • He and his co-signatories confessed that they had lived unchastely, but argued that priests could not be expected to do otherwise, seeing that God had not seen fit to give the gift of continence.

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  • By evening it was expected that the whole would have crossed the Sambre, and would bivouac between the sundered allies.

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  • In regard to the scope of the inquiry, it is recognized that much is practicable in a country where the agency of trained officials is employed throughout the operation which cannot be expected to be adequately recorded where the responsibility for the correctness of the replies is thrown upon the householder.

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  • The standard set up by eminent statisticians, therefore, may be taken to represent an ideal, not likely to be attained anywhere under present conditions, but towards which each successive census may be expected to advance.

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  • Corps on the extreme left of the attack failed to make the progress expected he was sent to take over the corps.

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  • Gradually they resumed church-fellowship in Amsterdam, where they chose the learned Henry Ainsworth as teacher, in place of Greenwood, but elected no new pastor, as they expected Francis Johnson (1562-1618) soon to be released and to rejoin them.

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  • During the Protectorate, with its practical establishment of Presbyterians, Independents and Baptists, the position of Congregationalism was really anomalous, in so far as any of its pastors became parish ministers,' and so received " public mainfenance " and were expected to administer the sacraments to all and sundry.

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  • The charter did not give the encouragement to agriculture that was expected of it because the status created for colonists of a patroon was no attraction to a successful farmer in the Netherlands.

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  • In this Turko-Russian frontier the Turkish Higher Command had expected to do the greater part of their campaigning.

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  • But, as must be expected in an island but 180 m.

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  • He expected their support, on account of his attitude toward the South and hostility to Grant, but he thought it a mistake to give him their formal nomination.

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  • He had, moreover, the perfectly definite purpose of fighting his way north, and at Telissu or Wafangkou on the 14th of June, as he expected, he came upon Stakelberg's detach- Telissu.

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  • But it was not the expected Sedan.

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  • And, to mention a point of a different kind, the parts played by different sections among the Jewish people are such as might be expected.

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  • He determined that Cuba should not be taken over by the United States, as all Europe expected it would be, and an influential section of his own party hoped it would be, but should be given every opportunity to govern itself as an independent republic; by assuming supervision of the finances of San Domingo, he put an end to controversies in that unstable republic, which threatened to disturb the peace of Europe; and he personally inspired the body of administrative officials in the Philippines, in Porto Rico and (during American occupancy) in Cuba, who for efficiency and unselfish devotion to duty compare favourably with any similar body in the world.

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  • Frederick Augustus was succeeded in 1827 by his brother Antony, to the great disappointment of the people, who had expected a more liberal era under Prince Frederick Augustus, the king's nephew.

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  • Waddell (De Pontibus, New York, 1898) proposes to arrange railways in seven classes, according to the live loads which may be expected from the character of their traffic, and to construct bridges in accordance with this classification.

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  • As might be expected, the moments are greatest in this case at the sections under the 15-ton load.

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  • The second postulate was a sound financial basis, which he expected the wealth of France to supply in the shape of subsidies to be spent on armaments.

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  • There are also hooped or bowed canaries, feather-footed forms and top-knots, the latter having a distinct crest on the head; but the offspring of two such top-knotted canaries, instead of showing an increased development of crest, as might be expected, are apt to be bald on the crown.

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  • No one probably expected from Nerva a vigorous administration either at home or abroad, although during his reign a successful campaign was carried on in Pannonia against the Germans (Suebi), for which he assumed the name Germanicus.

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  • It might have been expected that the concession of universal suffrage in the case of the House of Deputies would have led to the abolition of the class system of voting for the legislative bodies of the several territories and the introduction of an equal franchise, and also to the doing away with the three-class system of voting - established on the Prussian model - in the case of the election of municipal representatives.

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  • Enrolment in the army proceeded everywhere without friction, and much more expeditiously than the military authorities had expected.

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  • It was only to be expected that the Germans, whose very existence was in question, should show themselves to be patriotic. But it was somewhat surprising that at Prague, after the declaration of war, Germans and Czechs sang Die TV acht am Rhein together in the streets, and the burgomaster, a Czech, made a speech in German before the town hall in which he called for cheers for the Emperor William and the fraternization of Germans and Czechs.

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  • At first indeed, since the war was only expected to last a short time, there was little disposition to incur the heavy expenditure necessary in order to secure a share in the manufacture of war material; but this attitude was soon changed, and within six months factories everywhere had been adapted to the supply of munitions and all the variety of other things required by the Government for the armies.

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  • Perhaps they also expected aid from France or Liege.

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  • A somewhat different conception of the sovereign's functions was that of Disraeli's great rival, Gladstone, who, though his respect for the person and office of the sovereign was unbounded, not only expected all people, the queen included, to agree with him when he changed his mind, but to become suddenly enthusiastic about his new ideas.

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  • The of Wales's ' 'c i evidence laid before the committee explained to the country for the first time the actual state of the royal income, and on the proposal of Gladstone, amending the proposal of the government, it was proposed to grant a fixed addition of £36,000 per annum to the prince of Wales, out of which he should be expected to provide for his children without further application to the country.

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  • That most favourable to him is that he was expected to lend himself in a more or less complaisant manner to assist and cover Madame d'Epinay's adulterous affection for Grimm.

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  • As was to he expected from its connexion with the early history of England, and from its beauty and fertility, Kent possessed a larger than average number of monastic foundations.

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  • In this war Prince Napoleon commanded the French corps that occupied Tuscany, and it was expected that he would become ruler of the principality, but he refused to exert any pressure upon the inhabitants, who preferred union with the Italian kingdom.

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  • Geneva has always been a favourite residence of foreigners, though few can ever have expected to hear that the "protestant Rome" has now a Romanist majority as regards its inhabitants.

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  • According to the early disciples Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, and had significance only in relation to the expected Messianic kingdom.

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  • This system doubtless was not expected to last after the wars had ceased, but, as it happened, it did last until 1860.

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  • There was not at this time any considerable public feeling on the subject of protection, chiefly because during most of the years of this period the Eastern states, and especially New England, where manufactures might be expected to develop first, were profitably engaged in_an extensive export and carrying trade.

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  • Calvinism, indeed, rather recommended itself to the Poles as being of non-German origin, and Calvin actually dedicated his Commentary on the Mass to the young krolewicz (or crown prince) Sigismund Augustus, from whom protestantism, erroneously enough, expected much in the future.

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  • Both Chodkiewicz and olkiewski frequently had to pay the expenses of their campaigns out of their own pockets, and were expected to conquer empires and defend hundreds of miles of frontier with armies of 3000 or 4000 men at most.

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  • According to Frazer (Early History of the Kingship, 1905; see also Golden Bough, i., 1 9 00, p. 82), the early Greek kings, who were expected to produce rain for the benefit of the crops, were in the habit of imitating thunder and lightning in the character of Zeus.

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  • As might be expected, his views are biased by personal considerations and his intimacy with the royal family, which at the same time, however, afforded him unusual facilities for obtaining material.

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  • Jefferson Davis was chosen president of this confederacy, and an energetic government prepared to repel the expected attack of the "Union" states.

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  • Johnston, than whom there was no better soldier in the Confederate service when a careful defence was required, disposed of sensibly inferior forces, and it was to be expected that the 18th-century methods of making war by manoeuvring and by combats, not battles, would receive a modern illustration in Georgia.

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  • As might be expected, in thickened and highly embossed valves thin spaces occur over the visual organ.

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  • The opposition, as might be expected, came from the side of the Jews, and was due partly to the controversial use which was made of the version by the S Christians, but chiefly to the fact that it was not suffi- ciently in agreement with the standard Hebrew text estab.- lished by Rabbi Aqiba and his school.

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  • The truth is, that not only were Christians expecting (as we say) the Second Coming of the Messiah, but what they expected was the Coming.

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  • Only raw materials came from St Peter, and those probably not checked or revised by him; the arrangement is due to Mark himself, and is more successful than might have been expected in the circumstances - indeed so successful as to suggest advice from some good quarter.

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  • There is no question that many passages in these show signs of Diatessaron influence, but this is only to be expected if we consider that from the end of the 2nd to the beginning of the 5th century the Diatessaron was the popular form of the gospels.

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  • The study of the Semitic elements in early Christianity is less advanced than the study of the Greek elements, so that it is doubtless from the Semitic side that further progress in the criticism of the New Testament may be expected.

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  • Campbell-Bannerman became premier at the end of 1905 was generally expected; but his elevation direct to the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade was somewhat of a surprise.

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  • In the north a feeling of despondency overtook Congress at the "lame and impotent conclusion" of a campaign of invasion which was expected to terminate the war by the defeat of the Confederate army, the capture of Richmond and the immediate overthrow of the Confederacy.

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  • Elizabeth could hardly be expected to go out of her way and ask parliament to repeal its own acts for Mary's sake; probably it would have refused.

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  • But an ascetic life was expected of them only when, like the apostles, they went about as missionaries, in which case the rules in Matt.

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  • His intimate friend, Governor Letcher, appreciating his gifts, sent him as a colonel of infantry to Harper's Ferry, where the first collision with the Union forces was hourly expected.

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  • The silver bars found at Troy averaging 2744, or 1/3 mina of 8232, have been attributed to this unit (17); but no division of the mina in 1/3 is to be expected, and the average is rather low.

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  • Tezcatlipoca was held to be the highest of these, and at the festival of all the gods his footsteps were expected to appear in the flour strewn to receive this sign of their coming.

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  • On the whole, the Revised Version weathered the storm more successfully than might have been expected.

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  • In Stuart times all ranks of society believed in her, and referring to her supposed foretelling of the Great Fire, Pepys relates that when Prince Rupert heard, while sailing up the Thames on the 10th of October 1666, of the outbreak of the fire "all he said was, ` now Shipton's prophecy was out.'" One of her prophecies was supposed to have menaced Yeovil, Somerset, with an earthquake and flood in 1879, and so convinced were the peasantry of the truth of her prognostications that hundreds moved from their cottages on the eve of the expected disaster, while spectators swarmed in from all quarters of the county to see the town's destruction.

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  • His spies were naturally doubtful characters, because the profession does not attract honest men; morality of methods can no more be expected from counterplotters than from plotters; and the prevalence of political or religious assassination made counterplot a necessity in the interests of the state.

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  • From the remoter provinces, which had acquiesced in his accession, little help was to be expected; but the legions of Dalmatia, Pannonia and Moesia were eager in his cause, the praetorian cohorts were in themselves a formidable force and an efficient fleet gave him the mastery of the Italian seas.

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  • After a rough estimate of the perturbations it must sustain from the attraction of the planets, he predicted its return for 1757,-a bold prediction at that time, but justified by the event, for the comet again made its appearance as was expected, though it did not pass through its perihelion till the month of March 1759, the attraction of Jupiter and Saturn having caused, as was computed by Clairault previously to its return, a retardation of 618 days.

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