Maybe the corporate masters didn't expect ever to pay it out, either.

My masters expect me to be hunting for news.

The masters at Nylan are expecting you, and several others, the day after tomorrow.

A master of strategy, The Shadow had expected this step.

He left her, saying that his master the mage expected him at home, and he did not come back to the meadow the next day.

Those new masters of yours will not expect you to adopt this perspective.

My master peered down this as if expecting to see a vision at the bottom.

Sergei nodded in agreement because that's what his master expected, but the truth was, he didn't understand and perhaps never would.

The master of mystery had been expecting crime to issue from this place.

Towards evening he returned, reporting that he had seen plenty of buck, but could not get near them, which was just what his master expected.