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 Current Search - expect in A Farewell to Arms
1  I was expecting my wife, I said.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 4: 34
2  I had always expected to become devout.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 4: 35
3  We expected a bombardment but it did not come.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 3: 27
4  I had expected it to be flatter, more like a plateau.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 3: 27
5  We expected an attack all day but it did not come until the sun was going down.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 3: 27
6  At the station I had expected to see the porters from the hotels but there was no one.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 4: 34
7  "I had expected to become more devout as I grow older but somehow I haven't," he said.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 4: 35
8  I do not know what I had expected, death perhaps and shooting in the dark and running, but nothing happened.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 3: 30
9  I do not know what I expected to see but I did not see anything except the fields and the bare mulberry trees and the rain falling.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 3: 30
10  If they shot floorwalkers after a fire in the department store because they spoke with an accent they had always had, then certainly the floorwalkers would not be expected to return when the store opened again for business.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 3: 32