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1  I expect you to feel flattered.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  It drew him forth sooner than I expected.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  The evening of their expected arrival came.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  I made no reply, because I saw that he expected none.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  No, Miss Catherine, the acquaintance must be dropped entirely: so papa expects, and I shall see that it is done.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  I got Miss Catherine and myself to Thrushcross Grange; and, to my agreeable disappointment, she behaved infinitely better than I dared to expect.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Catherine, also, deemed it judicious to moderate her expressions of pleasure in receiving him; and he gradually established his right to be expected.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  Mrs. Earnshaw expected him by supper-time on the third evening, and she put the meal off hour after hour; there were no signs of his coming, however, and at last the children got tired of running down to the gate to look.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton: for I had engaged to call again next day, when we quitted him; but, as you stayed up-stairs on the morrow, I escaped that trouble.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  She also got a trick of coming down early in the morning and lingering about the kitchen, as if she were expecting the arrival of something; and she had a small drawer in a cabinet in the library, which she would trifle over for hours, and whose key she took special care to remove when she left it.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  In vain she wept and writhed against the interdict, and implored her father to have pity on Linton: all she got to comfort her was a promise that he would write and give him leave to come to the Grange when he pleased; but explaining that he must no longer expect to see Catherine at Wuthering Heights.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV