expectant

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In its new ten-story quarters Lane Bryant has given over the entire fourth floor to the customers it calls "expectants."

From Time Magazine Archive

The General is already overwhelmed with expectants, and if he had millions would not be able to command a farthing.

From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II by Dundonald, Thomas Barnes Cochrane, Earl of

I should like, if possible, to meet your Lordship where there is likely to be the least crowd of expectants and parade to take up your time and distract your attention.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

The ordinary work of the "yape" expectants was, no doubt, apparently going on; but the looking of "twa ways" for gloaming was, necessarily, exclusive of much interest in the work of the day.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

A crowd of eager expectants had gathered round the crates of merchandise which our sailors had brought on shore, and the barter began.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von