anticipant

Example Sentences

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The bride, seeing these two dying animals, and hearing the cries of anticipant ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father.

From Time Magazine Archive

Motion stirred there; the pair of them laughed like anticipant children when two wide-winged moths swam into sight and floated toward them, eyes glowing like veiled emeralds.

From Pet Farm by Aycock, Roger D.

He said "Now" with a little sucking in of breath and a thin anticipant smile and spun on his heel.

From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

I saw that its thin oval had rounded, the cheeks gained a faint color; animation was in every feature, life anticipant in the eyes.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

O meek anticipant of that sure pain Whose sureness gray-hair'd scholars hardly learn!

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew