He dry-washed his hands in anxious anticipation of pleasing the Mother Confessor.

Five paces away Cato's ears burned and his blood went ice cold in anxious anticipation.

Twenty million miles away, the frightened people of a devastated planet waited in anxious anticipation for word on their attempt to destroy the menacing form.

The Jesuit turned slowly, his heart pounding with anxious anticipation.

A general tenor of anxious anticipation preceded the revelation by those who had heard the Voices.

The carver was so full of anxious anticipation he found it hard to contain himself.

At that moment a fresh breeze swirled between them, and the hunters unfurled their membranes in anxious anticipation.

And it establishes an atmosphere that mixes anxious anticipation with a tired resignation.

Dillon wanted to return the thumbs-up, but instead sat there frozen by anxious anticipation.

And nowhere is there more anxious anticipation than at M'kor Shalom.