attendre

Nous nous réfugiâmes dans une grotte et attendîmes que la tempête passe.
We took refuge in a cave and waited for the storm to pass.
Nous attendîmes qu'il fît son apparition.
We waited for him to turn up.
Nous attendîmes.
We waited.
Longtemps, nous attendîmes des nouvelles du Lone Star ; elles ne nous parvinrent jamais.
We waited long for news of the Lone Star of Savannah, but none ever reached us.
Pendant des dizaines de milliers d’années, nous attendîmes tous avec impatience la septième et dernière effusion de Micaël.
For tens of thousands of years we all looked forward to the seventh and final bestowal of Michael.
Et il arriva que nous attendîmes de recevoir des provisions et des forces du pays de Zarahemla.
And it came to pass that we did wait to receive provisions and strength from the land of Zarahemla.
P.1316 - §4 Pendant des dizaines de milliers d'années, nous attendîmes tous avec impatience la septième et dernière effusion de Micaël.
For tens of thousands of years we all looked forward to the seventh and final bestowal of Michael.
Pendant la période la plus sombre, la plus fermée aux espoirs, de la réaction, Ioffé et moi attendîmes en toute assurance une nouvelle révolution et précisément dans la forme qu'elle devait prendre en 1917.
In the darkest days of the reaction, Joffe and I were confidently waiting for a new revolution, and we pictured it in the very way in which it actually evolved in 1917.
On dépouilla vareuses et habits, on rabattit les cols des chemises, on retroussa les manches jusqu’aux épaules, et nous attendîmes là, chacun à son poste, enfiévrés par la chaleur et l’inquiétude.
Jackets and coats were flung aside, shirts thrown open at the neck and rolled up to the shoulders; and we stood there, each at his post, in a fever of heat and anxiety.
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