"Wait on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 3 "O Spirits, who wait on God, look at me, and at my being unable to see you! For when I was in my former bright nature, then I could see you. I sang praises as you do; and my heart ...
— First Book of Adam and Eve • Rutherford Platt
... unpleasant and unchristian action—as we drift, by right of God's dear love, into more spiritual [5] lines of life—let each society of practitioners, the matter- physicians and the metaphysicians, agree to disagree, and then patiently wait on God to decide, as surely He will, which is the ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... understand her and will do anything in the world to make her happier. Dr. McClain says that Kara's state of mind worries him a great deal. Yet how can it be different? Surely we can make her physically comfortable in the evergreen house and all of us will wish to wait on her. I—" ...
— The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest • Margaret Vandercook
... quickly, as though to avoid further argument. The elderly serving-man busied himself by setting out decanters and glasses, then went out like one who considered his duty done, leaving the company to wait on themselves. ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... confessed, very red and embarrassed, Janet observed composedly that the person on whom they had relied to help them to-night had failed them at the last moment, and they had decided that it would be simpler for them to wait on themselves. ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
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