SUSPENSE

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suspense substantiv

1. suspensie;

the question is in suspense problema nu e rezolvată, e în suspensie.

2. îndoială, nesiguranţă; nehotărâre;

after a long period of suspense după o lungă perioadă de nesiguranţă.

3. (lit.) suspens.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

After a moment of suspense, I went and kissed my mother: she kissed me, patted me gently on the shoulder, and sat down again to her work.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Another three days, and no news. This suspense is getting dreadful.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Her feelings made her speak low; and Captain Wentworth, hearing only in part, and probably not having Dick Musgrove at all near his thoughts, looked rather in suspense, and as if waiting for more.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

He was brought, not from doubt or suspense, but from misery to happiness;—and the change was openly spoken in such a genuine, flowing, grateful cheerfulness, as his friends had never witnessed in him before.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"I will run down to the gates: it is moonlight at intervals; I can see a good way on the road. He may be coming now, and to meet him will save some minutes of suspense."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Her suspense was of full five minutes' duration; and she was beginning to think it a very long quarter of an hour, when they both returned, and an explanation was given, by Henry's requesting to know if she thought her friend, Miss Thorpe, would have any objection to dancing, as his brother would be most happy to be introduced to her.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He had begun to talk of it a week ago; and by way of doing something, as shooting was over, Charles had proposed coming with him, and Mrs Harville had seemed to like the idea of it very much, as an advantage to her husband; but Mary could not bear to be left, and had made herself so unhappy about it, that for a day or two everything seemed to be in suspense, or at an end.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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