Wished

Examples

• I don't see why you shouldn't like me to know that you wished to do me a service, my dear fellow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Yes, but you won't do it, answered Laurie, who wished to make up, but felt that his outraged dignity must be appeased first. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• All wished Miss Abbey good-night and Miss Abbey wished good-night to all, except Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into parliament, or to see him connected with some of the great men of the day. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Besides, I wished to touch no deep-thrilling chord--to open no fresh well of emotion in his heart: my sole present aim was to cheer him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I wished to ascertain more of what she thought but no: she would converse no more. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• How dreadful to remember, perhaps, that she had sometimes even wished the old man away who was so swiftly hurried out of life! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I happened to remark to Mr. Rochester how much Adele wished to be introduced to the ladies, and he said: 'Oh! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In your case, I have every reason to suppose that my notes contain something which he actually wished to say to you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Thank you, said Holmes, I only wished to ask you how you would go from here to the Strand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Marianne slowly continued It is a great relief to mewhat Elinor told me this morningI have now heard exactly what I wished to hear. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I am sorry, because I could have wished to keep up a little lingering fragment of respect for him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Shame seemed to hold him back; yet he evidently wished to establish a renewal of confidence and affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She thought he did well to assert his own will, but she wished that will to have been more intelligible to the multitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I decidedly told him it was as heavy as I wished. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That it should all go slowly should be expected too; but now he wished to go. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She turned away, and wished he would not say such things. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I am sorry to grieve you, pursued the widow; but you are so young, and so little acquainted with men, I wished to put you on your guard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She wished her hand had withered before she had done so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I had always wished to love my sisters dearly. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Fascination wished to know if the colour were not called rose-colour? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I always wished I could have understood Siemens's explanations of the points of those stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She wished Beth could hear him, but she did not say so, only praised him till he was quite abashed, and his grandfather came to his rescue. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She wished it was dead, she said; and she wouldn't let me have it o' nights, cause, she said, it kept me awake, and made me good for nothing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was evident, indeed, that she wished me to drop the subject, which I did accordingly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was my fête-day; everybody wished me happiness but you. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I need not narrate in detail the further struggles I had, and arguments I used, to get matters regarding the legacy settled as I wished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• What we wished for was little lights, and a distribution of them to people’s houses in a manner similar to gas. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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