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Sitting up in bed, she wrote in lead-pencil, two lines; "I will never see you again. I never want to hear your name again." She did not even sign her name. To have David go away for the long-anticipated trip with Dr. Lavendar, was a relief to Helena struggling up from a week of profound prostration.
"Here, massa! here, Capting, is de berry heart of de fire!" and laying it carefully in the bowl of his pipe "dat, sar, will keep yer terbacker gwine all day." "Thank you, marm Juno! We shall try and bring you home some fish for dinner. A ninety-pound halibut, eh?" The Captain having performed that operation so very necessary to his comfort, we all sallied forth for the long-anticipated sail.
Were a man to go suddenly flapping his way through the streets of London on the long-anticipated flying-machine, the average Cockney would scarce betray the unfeigned astonishment that is depicted on the countenances of these Croatian villagers as we nde into their midst and dismount. This afternoon my bicycle causes the first runaway since the trifling affair at Lembach, Austria.
Presently he came upon a mounted messenger of the enemy; he struck him down from his horse, flung himself into the saddle, and rushed on towards the camp; as if he were riding to his wedding. During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise.
They were sometimes very funny, and Miss Etta felt a little inclined to laugh as they were read, but little by little they were educating the children to be unselfish and helpful, and that, next to being godly, is the best thing in the world. The long-anticipated Harvest Home Festival arrived at last.
With this parcel peeping enticingly from my pocket, and with persuasive argument that I could never again leave the Basin without his likeness, as aid to Mrs. Kobbe's tears, we at last seduced him up the stairs of the studio to the long-anticipated ordeal. Now if young Mrs. Kobbe had had the discretion to keep silence!
She had three good reasons for being particularly happy that day the first and foremost of these being the long-anticipated adventure that lay before her; the second that her two young brothers had improved so greatly in health that the tedious hours of her solitude were very nearly over; and the third that a letter from Jack, cousin and comrade, was tucked up her sleeve.
Eat as much as I would, however, the sense of hunger never left me; and this diseased craving, in ignorance of its injurious effects, was gratified in a way that might have taxed unimpaired powers of digestion. At length the long-anticipated New Year's Day, on which I was to be emancipated forever from the tyranny of opium, arrived.
Laurie was brought home to Pine Lea and immediately the mending process began. Already one could read in the patient face the transformation hope had wrought. There was some day to be college, not alone for Ted but for Laurie himself, college, and sports, and a career. In the fullness of time these long-anticipated joys began to arrive.
It was not the horror of being dashed to pieces I dreaded it was the horror of the phantom horse of its sinister, hostile appearance of its unknown powers. What would it do if it overtook us? With each successive breath I drew I felt sure the fateful event the long-anticipated crisis had come. At last my expectations were realized.
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