If the world were not each year renewed, refreshed, glorified by the magnificent honor and fine expectancies of its young men, it would soon become simply fiendish in its sordidness, selfishness, and baseness.
"The Young Man and the World"
Albert J. Beveridge
Lively Passions soon burn out; and then come disappointed expectancies, vain Repinings, fretful Complainings, wrathful Rejoinings.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning
"That may not save you, Valerie," replied Madame d'Albret, laughing, "gentlemen may be satisfied with expectancies; nay, it is possible that one may be found who may be satisfied with your own pretty self, and ask no more."
"Valerie"
Frederick Marryat