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This time, before Dick Lewis could get a physician, the unexpectant mother was in the third stage of labor, in their bedroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wrote the Manchester Guardian: "These performers, against all the odds, gave a performance�or rather three performances�that held the whole audience, from expectant novice to unexpectant critic, completely beguiled."

From Time Magazine Archive

At times a shrill, sharp pipe, screaming with gusts of horror, split my unexpectant ear.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

Every other virtue poses; none is absolutely unconscious and simple, and unexpectant of decoration or recognition, like this.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

The unexpectant passer-by would have been rather surprised at this, but we who are acquainted with the parties must all begin to have our suspicions.

From The Brown Mouse by Quick, Herbert