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Sentences starting with wait

Wait there till you hear from me. [5]
Wait a little while! [9]
Wait a bit, wait.... [2]
Wait a bit--only wait. [10]
Wait a bit, wait!--With a definite aim before my eyes I have never yet failed to find my way--in the realm of science, of course; but what is life--the life of the sage but applied knowledge? [10]
Wait till our turn comes. [6]
Wait one moment, till I have said good-bye to my friends. [10]
Wait a moment--is this the gentleman? [5]
Wait till after the storms. [13]
Wait a minute--I'll tell you--it's the woman who sits in the cashier's cage at Grady's. [9]

Sentences ending with wait

You are very young: you can afford to wait. [6]
No, sir, if you want to see me, you've got to wait. [9]
And besides, while you are waiting, Nature does not wait. [4]
In time help would come, so she must wait. [11]
You and I will wait. [11]
Clearly, the thing was to go on as before, keep his marriage secret, meet the Countess, apparently accede to all the Duke proposed, and wait--and wait. [11]
After that there was nothing for us men but to wait. [11]
By instinct--for there was no time for thought--he did the only thing which could help him, he made a swift gesture to Jean Jacques, a gesture that bade him wait. [11]
How hard it was for Katterle to wait! [10]
I knew there was a way, if I would wait. [5]

Short sentences using wait

I'll wait for you. [9]
Wait, I tell you. [11]
They wait to yield them. [5]
But wait a while! [10]
But if he wait? [5]
I could not wait. [9]
I can hardly wait. [9]
But we didn't wait. [5]
Be silent, and wait. [5]
Well, she would wait. [11]

Sentences containing wait two or more times

One has to wait, and wait, even if the heart grows harder, and one gets hopeless. [11]
But--oh, Lassiter, wait, wait! [13]
Only wait, only wait! [10]
But only wait, wait! [10]
But if he wait until de men of de privator coum to him, he will wait till we see him sitting there now. [11]
And if you're to wait for an answer, Sir, you may wait in the passage, Sir, which is an airy and well-ventilated apartment, sir. [12]
I am counselled to wait and watch--D. V. I will do so; yet it is harder to wait with the hands bound, and the observant and reflective faculties at their silent and unseen work, than to labour mechanically. [14]
If I am silent, my people will wait until I speak again; if they see me not they will wait till I enter their camps once more. [11]
A very pretty game!--But wait, only wait. [10]
Wait, only wait! [10]

More example sentences with the word wait in them

My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
It afforded the young man genuine pleasure to wait upon the faithful old woman and give her her medicine and barley-gruel. [10]
He mentioned my young friend and said he was very anxious to have the $7000 now to begin his banking operations with, and could wait a while for the rest. [5]
We'll wait for you when we get to shore. [5]
Didn't I take you out of poverty, and make you head of all this, with people to wait on you and all the rest of it? [11]
When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want to wait until you are ninety to read some of the rest. [5]
There will no wrong come of all this, if you will but wait a little while. [6]
The idea of writing to me would have had to wait a long time if it waited until your brain originated it. [5]
To make sure, write the names of the stages on my little tablet.--But wait, I must rub it smooth. [10]
She said she would wait, now, where she was, and die--it would not be long. [5]
He said he would wait while I dressed, and then we would go to his apartments and I could take a bottle of champagne and a cigar while he dressed. [5]
No doubt he would wait now any length of time for her. [4]
She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
He allowed we would steal the bogus swag and wait all night for him to come up and get drownded, and by George it's just what we done! [5]
Time and patience would be pretty sure to bring out new developments, and physicians, of all men in the world, know how to wait as well as how to labor. [6]
She thought it would be delightful, and promised to wait for me at a certain place outside of the city. [10]
Don't wait and worry about a good price but sell out for whatever you can get, and come along, or you might be too late. [5]
Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
A tall, quiet woman, who had learned the lesson of mothers,--how to wait and how to pray, how to be silent with a clamouring heart. [9]
For you, old woman, have done everything with your own hands for so long, that you deserve to have some one to wait on you for once. [10]
The weary old woman had wanted to return home long before, but the command of the grand chamberlain compelled her to wait for Barbara and accompany her the short distance to the house. [10]
Sunset came, bringing with the end of her labor a patient calmness and power to wait that had not been hers earlier in the day. [13]
Do your best with Carnegie, and don't wait to consider any of my intermediate suggestions or talks about our raising half of the $200,000 ourselves. [5]
Then he said, with a wisdom that surprised him, for he would have liked to yield to the impulse of his curiosity: "Perhaps we'd better wait till Mrs. March comes down, and let things take the usual course. [8]
Perhaps," continued he with a sneer, "you would do as well to wait here, for another colonel. [5]
But I am willing to wait, should you wish to see more of the world. [9]
He had been willing to wait for her love, believing that by patience and devotion he could win it. [11]
I think we will wait awhile before we pour out the Elixir Vitae. [6]
She steeled her will to wait till then, no matter how dark the sky might be. [11]
Two of them will sometimes wait nearly half a day while a comrade goes for a tool. [4]
A Mr. Lewis will probably follow you with something from me on this subject, but do not wait for him. [7]
I suspect he will not be long to wait for. [10]
He wanted his wife to abandon his wretched carcass long ago, as she herself was sound and well, but Luka said that she was content to remain and wait on the man she loved till the spirit should be freed from its burden. [5]
The young fellow whom I have so often mentioned was a little free in his remarks, but very good-natured.--Sorry to have you go,--he said.--School-ma'am made a mistake not to wait for me. [6]
But on the whole it would be more decorous to wait, and perhaps he was willing to hear what the object of his favorite antipathy had to say about it. [6]
Erasmus listened silently while Wolf eagerly made these statements; but when the latter closed with the declaration that the evangelical faith would never attain the same power of elevating hearts, he interrupted the knight with the exclamation, "We shall have to wait for that! [10]
There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. [6]
He was wondering whether he would go at once to Jasmine or wait until he had finished breakfast. [11]
Go in there where they are meeting, and wait for me. [2]
Now and then, when a particularly shining name was called, the house made the Chair wait while it chanted the whole of the test-remark from the beginning to the closing words, "And go to hell or Hadleyburg--try and make it the for-or-m-e-r! [5]
What if she were still standing at the door of the house to wait for Biberli? [10]
The qualities that were born in her had to wait for circumstance and opportunity--but they were there: they were there to stay, whether they ever got a chance to fructify or not. [5]
Some say he went east some say west, some north, some south--but all say they did not wait to notice, particularly. [5]
Whether it is well or ill done, I don't know; D. V., I will now try and wait the issue quietly. [14]
No, Masse Veneer, we'll both stay in th' of mansion 'n' wait for th' Lord! [6]
Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded in every possible way against fraud), so that, when he acquires a legal right, he will have no occasion to wait for additional legislation; and if he has practiced fraud let the courts so decide. [7]
But Major said we were not in a hurry, and would wait for the car to be put on. [5]
After all this we started for a luncheon at All Souls, but had to wait (impatiently) for H. R. H. to rest herself, while our resting was done standing. [6]
During the occurrence we have described, the king's pioneer and the young wife of Mena were obliged to wait for the princess. [10]
When we arrived we had to stand around in the garden a little while and wait, and the outlook was not good, for he had been turning away Maharajas that day and receiving only the riff-raff, and we belonged in between, somewhere. [5]
There warn't no way but to wait for dark, and start back in the canoe and take the chances. [5]
One of these was the History of the Conquest of Mexico, which he afterwards surrendered to Mr. Prescott, and another was the "Life of Washington," which was to wait many years for fulfillment. [4]
The two-hour wait was over too soon. [5]
At present he was in his office with Herr Casper Eysvogel; Biberli might wait in the kitchen till the latter went away. [10]
A floating beam was held out to sinking men, and they would no longer wait for the life-boat that was approaching to rescue them, with strong hands at the oars and a trusty pilot at the helm. [10]
Long before it was decided Dada had been impatiently fingering her wreaths, and could hardly wait any longer to fling them into Marcus' chariot. [10]
But Miss Lucretia was content to wait, and guessed at many things which Cynthia did not tell her, and made some personal effort, unknown to Cynthia, to find out other things. [9]
As the master was at the market, the strangers were led by the steward, an old servant grown grey in the service of Theopompus, into the Andronitis, and begged to wait there until he returned. [10]
Our captain, however, was a cool man and a seaman, and slipped through the cruisers lying in wait off the Capes very triumphantly. [9]
Philip had to walk some five miles before he reached a little station, where he could wait for a train, and he had ample time for reflection. [5]
The place is waiting for him, and it can't wait longer than the last boat down. [11]
Still, I can wait. [11]
I could only wait. [11]
The singer can wait. [10]
I would rather wait, with anything harsh I might have to say, till the convictions become conventions. [5]
You people must wait, we will soon call you to come under shelter. [10]
There is another wait, the companies standing at ease. [9]
The printers must wait, the artists, the canvassers, and all the rest. [5]
Prudence bade me wait, since Grafton had not consorted with the rector openly, at least--for more than a year. [9]
You bet I'D wait, if it was seven year. [5]
She did not wait, but reached up and kissed him on the cheek. [11]
The pillory--" "Oh, wait, brother; say no good word for that institution. [5]
They preferred to wait, and toll the victims along, and get to one of their regular burying-places ('bheels') if they could. [5]
How could she wait until then? [9]
How could she wait until the dawn of another day?... [9]
We had to wait until somebody should come along. [5]
That they must wait until after the departure of the Alexandrian with her numerous train, and for the first dark night, was a matter of course. [10]
We had to wait twenty or thirty minutes. [5]
He could not wait to turn the insult over in his mind, to weigh the exact amount of affront in each question, to take counsel, to sleep over it, and reply to it with diplomatic measure and suavity. [6]
She would not wait to take off her things. [5]
She did not wait to speak to Ephraim, and she was going out again when a man rushed past her and through the partition door. [9]
We did not wait to see. [5]
One need not wait to see the smoke coming through the roof of a house and the flames breaking out of the windows to know that the building is on fire. [6]
He didn't even wait to see the doctor. [9]
I will not wait to see Lady Eglington. [11]
You must not wait to be brought forward by the older men. [7]
He would not wait till tomorrow. [11]
If you can wait till then--I mean without discomfort, without inconvenience--it will be a large accommodation to me; but I will not allow you to do this favor if it will discommode you. [5]
Haschim must now wait till the morrow, and he, the guide, would counsel him to pass the night in the city at an inn kept by one Moschion, where he would be well cared for. [10]
I should rather wait till the last day for some of my motives to come to the top. [8]
He could not wait till the door was opened again, for he must carry out her commission quite early in the morning, and if he were caught and locked up for only half the day the Nabathaean would take some other engagement. [10]
She would not wait till she had seen Kingsley Bey, or Donovan Pasha again; she herself would go to Ismail at once. [11]
You said you'd wait till I got back, though you knew not where I was goin'. [11]
He would gladly wait there longer to afford the old man's granddaughter an opportunity to soften the tidings of the impending misfortune. [10]
She would still wait the arrival of his letter to her grandfather. [11]
The ship could wait only a little while because of the quarantine. [5]
There was another wait of half an hour toward nine o'clock, but I had gone through so much by that time that I had no spirit left, and so had no desire but to be let alone. [5]
There was a wait of half an hour at the end of the first act, and I could not trust myself to do it, for I felt that I should desert to stay out. [5]
I determined to wait no longer. [7]

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