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

Inside the great temple the people of Nedra were singing and chanting with anticipant joy; outside the world was smiling benignly.

From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr

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

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.