en attendant
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Yes, but, en attendant, what are we to do?
From Vera or, The Nihilists by Wilde, Oscar
The duchess, not being able to detach the Duc de Nemours from Mademoiselle de Rohan, fell in love, en attendant, with the leader of the Reformers.
From Catherine De Medici by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
You'll rest with me here then, but don't wait for that to rest somehow—somewhere en attendant.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry
Count Arco suggested I should take a drive, en attendant les événements, and see the neighborhood.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
At least, however, en attendant one may luxuriate in the vision of such a thing; and the reader shall now see such a vision rehearsed.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas
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