en attendant
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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We had only insisted upon your regularity at chapel and at lectures, and we hear of your attention to them comparatively, and we are fixed to be contented en attendant.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny
My situation has, en attendant, been made picturesque by the successive arrivals of your different mementoes, each one of which has done its little part to assuage my solitude and relieve my gloom.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
Burke is a farmer, en attendant a better place; but visiting about too.
From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington
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
My dear M. de Gramont, I meant to excuse myself; but as I am forced to wait for that tantalizing dress, a few moments with you, en attendant, will divert my thoughts.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
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