We are in a kind of anticipative purity, which is becoming personal to us and a fixed habit; we are living to be pure, as Christ is; but, regarded as apart from him, the work is only initiated, — we still have sin, we are broken, disordered, and corrupt. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
It is not too much to say that such remnants of doubt have been at the bottom of almost every such visitation, and that the appalling horror which has sometimes been brought about, is to be attributed, even in the cases most in point, and where most suffering has been experienced, more to a kind of anticipative horror, lest the apparition might possibly be real, than to an unwavering belief in its reality. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
Most semiconductor manufacturers due that kind of anticipative ordering so we would hope when they exit bankruptcy that could benefit us. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But this is an anticipative adaptation when you exhaust the muscles, they adapt in case you need that level of exertion again, not just calories in/calories out. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Many protestations of friendship, and expressions anticipative of the pleasure which must inevitably flow from so happy an acquaintance, were exchanged, and the visitors departed, with renewed assurances that at all times and seasons the mansion of the Wititterlys would be honoured by receiving them beneath its roof. ❋ Unknown (2007)
BOYD: Well, number one, we have to have an anticipative security program at every airport. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Everyone was out of harness, fidgety and anticipative. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
Ignoring the conglomeration of anticipative vileness, Ehomba reached slowly over his back. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1999)
The Literary Gazette considered the futuristic setting as "affording scope for much matter not connected with the catastrophe, and enabling the writer to indulge in every possible (and impossible) flight of her anticipative imagination, touching the nature of human society, and of all other mundane matters, a hundred and fifty years hence!" ❋ Unknown (1995)
Next day at luncheon Mr. Amherst, having carefully mapped out one of his agreeable little surprises, and having selected a moment when every one is present, says to her, with a wicked gleam of anticipative amusement in his cunning old eyes: ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (N/A)
For the moment, the gorgeous tinseled parade was forgotten in the vaster anticipative glories of the show. ❋ Annie Hamilton Donnell (N/A)
-- [From Frejus to, Aix a crowd of men kindly escorted us, carrying torches alongside the carriage of the General, not so much to show their enthusiasm as to ensure our safety (Bourrienne) These brigands became so bad in France that at one time soldiers were placed in the imperials of all the diligences, receiving from the wits the curiously anticipative name of "imperial armies".] -- ❋ Various (N/A)
His poor mind seemed wholly taken up with one anticipative idea, and whatever failed to minister to that he hadn't, as poppa sadly said, any use for. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
Its posture is firm, steady, self-poised, conscious of rectitude, and anticipative of veritable and valuable results. ❋ Various (N/A)
How does the reader show that ll. 7-12 are merely anticipative? ❋ A.E. Marty (N/A)
The Augean task of cleansing the Treasury has commenced, and brooms and scrubbing-brushes are at a premium -- a little anticipative, it is true, of the approaching turn-out; but the dilatory idleness and muddle-headed confusion of those who will soon be termed its late occupiers, rendered this a work of absolute time and labour. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the distress which had come like a cloud over the sunlight of his spirits, so gayly anticipative a few hours previous, they flung a wordless challenge to the battling instinct in the man, and he accepted it with the thought that the best balm for troubled minds is strenuous bodily action. ❋ Eliot H. Robinson (N/A)
Patricians and fair ladies had departed, and left the course to the lower orders of citizens and to slaves, who now emerged from the arches and alleys, and, anticipative of the morrow's holiday, swarmed in dusky crowds hither and thither in search of rude pastime. ❋ Various (N/A)
