Officious fate, resolved our lover From such an illness should recover, Presented always to his eyes The mute advisers which the ladies prize;-- Mirrors in parlours, inns, and shops,-- Mirrors the pocket furniture of fops,-- Mirrors on every lady's zone,[ 13 ] From which his face reflected shone.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

SYN: Anticipate, await, forecast, forebode, wait for, rely on, look for, foresee.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

There was only a glimmer of life in her, a glimmer of consciousness that she had been a lady who had once had her own serfs, that she was the widow of a general whom the servants had to address as "your Excellency"; and when these feeble relics of life flickered up in her for an instant she would say to her son: "Jean, you are not holding your knife properly!"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When she was parted from him, and all this latter time when she had been feeling a fresh rush of love for him, she had pictured him as he was at four years old, when she had loved him most of all.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With great labour they succeeded in getting out one stone, and then a second, and a third, and when three days were over the first ray of light fell on their darkness, and at last the opening was so large that they could look out.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The full recognition of leaf forms, as the general source of subordinate decoration, is one of the chief characteristics of Christian architecture; but the two roots of leaf ornament are the Greek acanthus, and the Egyptian lotus.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

What far reaches of level fields!
— from Europe from a Motor Car by Russell Richardson

Nothing seems to escape their attention, and every few steps offer subjects for remark or laughter; for the risible muscles of the negro are uncommonly excitable.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

Being in columns of squads, to form line to the front; Right (or left) Front Into Line , 2 March , 3 Company , 4 Halt , 5 Front .
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

We would again urge a full representation of ladies from all the churches.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889 by Various

He advanced at a snail’s pace until he passed the base of El Capitan, when of a sudden, as he rode out from among high projecting rocks full into the opening, faint rays of light from the eastern dawn revealed the narrow, strangely enclosed and perfectly hidden valley before him.
— from Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

That was the limit, he thought, of vast sums of trouble, hope, desire, enjoyment—enjoyment which forthwith consumed itself to make way for renewed desire, for illusions of possession, for realities of loss, for anguish, for conflicts, for meetings and partings; all uncontrollable processes bound up with suffering and fresh suffering and suffering again.
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann