On the contrary, they show a dreary apathy, morbid fearfulness, or a belligerent self-defence, anticipative of other forms of the cruel neglect which has been their dreary experience.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
The Mother thought she had never been so happy before in her life, and the ugly little beast yelped with anticipative joy.
"The Very Small Person"
Annie Hamilton Donnell
He pledged himself to it in anticipative requital of the Providence that was to bring them all together again, alive and well; good as he had felt himself to be, when he thought of the love in which he and his wife were bound, he had never experienced so deep and thorough a sense of desert as in this moment.
"The Quality of Mercy"
W. D. Howells