Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell yo ...

He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up. "

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.

I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense ...

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, wi ...

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.