However, the long looked-for Thursday came at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the White-Rock Cove] Reference

At this critical moment the looked-for opportunity arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference

It was not until September 17th that the looked-for success came.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

At last, the long looked-for hour arrived to start for Philadelphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference

In November, previous to William's escape, her long looked-for dissolution took place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference

The long looked-for order came at last, ''Bout face!' and we were on our homeward march.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference

The chance was not vouchsafed her; the looked-for juncture never came: it was not likely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

At last arrived the eagerly looked-for day of release from collegiate restrictions and labors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

The anxiously looked-for period was at length arrived, which had unveiled the mystery of her birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference

Without this storm the balloon would have started already and the looked-for opportunity would not have then presented itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

I expect an upset at her death, yet we hope for good results, though you promise me irritating labors by this looked-for change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference

Beginning perhaps with how she was so far enjoying the Season, and -- because her looked-for departure must depend upon the question!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gatlinburg] Reference

How trifling and insignificant do all other events appear, compared with the close of the race, and the arrival at the looked-for goal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir] Reference

The journey to the Gila River was a hard one, but the chronicler was compensated by seeing "the long looked-for country of California," which it was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference

The looked-for day came at last; and Grace's eyes sought the face of the young man to whom her sister had given her love, and spoke to him most eloquently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

Meanwhile, the much looked-for help the federal government has offered will be available only to those Americans whose governors aren't trying to score political points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Nussbaum: Laid Off and Left Out] Reference

The telescope, after having slowly swept the horizon, at last stopped on the looked-for spot, and Cyrus Harding, lowering it, pronounced one word only, — “A vessel!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

It was strange that, instead of the looked-for lightening of gloom, there was, if possible, in his bearing, his wife being safely dead and buried, an increase of melancholy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

When the long looked-for day of emancipation arrived, which she had never expected to witness, the unbounded thankfulness of her heart found expression in the appended letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference

This, however, occupied but a short period, even of those looked-for days; and in spite of her pride, and her constant needle, the weary six months went from her all too slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Clerks] Reference

Monday morning brought Clara Harry's looked-for letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times] Reference

At daylight we perceived the looked-for spot, and stood towards it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

But as yet appeared not the one so anxiously looked-for, and the half-hour was up!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference

The mail to-day was an event to me, as it has brought your long - looked-for letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

I suspect the officers themselves began to doubt whether the looked-for hurricane would ever come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Jack] Reference

Having in vain looked-for the Resolution, he bore away to the north, till Van Diemen's Land was sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries] Reference

It is seldom the case that a looked-for letter -- especially from a great distance -- arrives when hoped for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls] Reference

He was successful in his search for Easter, or Davis Island, which had in vain been looked-for by several previous navigators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries] Reference

But week after week followed the widely heralded announcement of the purchase without the looked-for visit from the new owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughter of a Magnate] Reference

The fire was the looked-for signal that the superintendent had been reached, and the word went from group to group of men up the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughter of a Magnate] Reference

Haslet was still standing, we searched the register, and another link of evidence was made clear by the finding of the looked-for entry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales] Reference

The seamen now began to murmur at the continuance of the tempestuous weather, declaring that the looked-for straits would never be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference

Besides, time pressed; the moment of the looked-for tribute was at hand, and little combinations of circumstances determine often the greatest events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference

Troubles are a sociable brotherhood; they love to come hand in hand, or sometimes, even, to come side by side, with long looked-for and hoped-for good fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference