EXPECTATION in Classic Quotes

1  The period of expectation was now doubled.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

2  She now lost every expectation of pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 54

3  All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

4  I shall then give over every expectation, every wish of his constancy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57

5  No one but Jane, she thought, could flatter herself with such an expectation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

6  But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation, she made no answer.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40

7  My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

8  You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

9  "At four o'clock, therefore, we may expect this peace-making gentleman," said Mr. Bennet, as he folded up the letter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

10  As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61

11  The wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a blow as this.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

12  If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it to contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

13  In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits were affected by it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

14  They were of course all intending to be surprised; but their astonishment was beyond their expectation; and on the part of Mrs. Bennet and Kitty, though she was perfectly unknown to them, even inferior to what Elizabeth felt.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56

15  At that ball, while I had the honour of dancing with you, I was first made acquainted, by Sir William Lucas's accidental information, that Bingley's attentions to your sister had given rise to a general expectation of their marriage.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

16  With no expectation of pleasure, but with the strongest curiosity, Elizabeth opened the letter, and, to her still increasing wonder, perceived an envelope containing two sheets of letter-paper, written quite through, in a very close hand.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

17  The introduction, however, was immediately made; and as she named their relationship to herself, she stole a sly look at him, to see how he bore it, and was not without the expectation of his decamping as fast as he could from such disgraceful companions.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43