He had ensconced himself outside of the zareba in a corner formed by the white-ant hillock and the tree and there, having his head and sides protected, had awaited developments, prepared in an emergency to repel an attack by kicking heroically with his heels.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Getting behind a hummock, we awaited developments.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
His relations with his father were curiously passive during this time, and suggested, in their hint of future developments, something ominous and uneasy.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole