"wait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dor waited humbly.
- So I waited humbly, watching the street and the folk passing by, and trying to look at ease in the biting wind.
- It is trod by a few who humbly wait for a fiacre* or wish to get off quietly o' foot when the opera is done.
- He waited humbly, saying nothing, just outside the gate sill.
- Then he sat humbly waiting for his cup.
- He whirled toward the servants who waited humbly near the wooden boxes that had been removed from the now-sunken launch.
- When Blanche quarrelled with Strickland she had only to leave him, and her husband was waiting humbly to forgive and forget.
- At the end of an hour you would find him waiting humbly beside the track, and glad to be taken aboard again.
- Jake waited humbly until Nog's father finished, then asked timidly, "Are you going to tell my father?"
- They looked about, talked among themselves, and waited humbly for the warm food they had been promised.
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