Lady Fawn, too, was very careful, but she had owned to herself long since that she could not bear to look forward to any permanent severance.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Robert looked forward to a penitential Sabbath-day.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

8 Ajainin did not share their wrath, and he sent forth another messenger with costly gifts to Jesus at the farmer’s home; he sent this message with the gifts: 9 I pray you, master, listen to my words; The Brahmic law forbids that any priest shall go into the home of any one of low estate; but you can come to us; 10
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

In the evening, while she was sitting alone in her room listlessly reading a book on modern painting by an author with whose views she did not agree, and looking forward to a probably sleepless night, there was a knock on the door, and a rose cheeked page boy, all alertness and buttons, tripped in with a note on a salver.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

At the very moment when the Government, engaged in negotiations to settle the question of the presence of American military forces on Haitian territory, was looking forward to a prompt solution in accordance with law and justice, it finds itself faced with the simple seizure of possession of the customs administration of the capital.
— from Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. by James Weldon Johnson

Lead for the above purpose should be quite free from copper and iron.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

There are some natures who can believe, who can look forward to a prize so great and wonderful as to hold the pain and trouble of the race of very small account when weighed against the hope of victory.
— from The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume II by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

But he is not one whit the less for this a poor sinner, fallen and guilty.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

New experiments made at Genoa in 1901, at which Eurico Morselli, professor of psychology at the University of Genoa, was present, were reported by my learned friend the astronomer Porro, successively director of the observatories of Genoa and Turin, to-day director of the national observatory
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

For SHE knew that the Princess wasn't one bit happy, because she was so lonesome for things and people she had known when she was just the girl.
— from Just David by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter