Hopes

Examples

• There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• May I say, at parting, that it is the dear object of MY hopes too? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As I had sufficient hopes of the will to be in a flutter about it, Allan and I agreed to go down to the court that morning. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It fills me with hopes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And she surveyed her position, and its hopes, doubts, and chances. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Bingley met them with hopes that Mrs. Bennet had not found Miss Bennet worse than she expected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• That the oldest had still hopes of living one day longer, and looked on death as the greatest evil, from which nature always prompted him to retreat. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Am I mad to build the hopes I do on those dear words? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He says he hopes you are not going to forsake us. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I have great hopes for my boy, observed Jo, watching him fly over the fence with an approving smile. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She had her girlish ambitions and hopes, and felt some disappointment at the humble way in which the new life must begin. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I was in hopes there would be act the fourth, retorted I; but, seriously, what do you understand by a scene? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The sudden and romantic appearance of his son in the lists at Ashby, he had justly regarded as almost a death's blow to his hopes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was one of mamma's cherished hopes that I should become united to a tall member of society. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Does this discovery of some one lost, this return of some one so long gone, come upon him as a strong confirmation of his hopes? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Your happy future is the dear object of many hopes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But Sir Thomas hopes he will be better to-morrow, and says we must consider his journey. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The successful politician--good or bad--deals with the dynamics--with the will, the hopes, the needs and the visions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Great and wonderful had been the hopes that had gathered to Paris. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We are in great hopes that Miss Woodhouse may be prevailed with to try it this evening. Jane Austen. Emma.
• What the coming summer would bring, we knew not; but the present months were our own, and our hopes of a cessation of pestilence were high. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• From Harriet's manner of speaking of the circumstance before they quitted the ballroom, she had strong hopes. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was taking leave of all his old hopes--all nobody's old restless doubts. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He gives me hopes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Her hopes were bound up in this dream. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Yes; if you and Mr. Woodhouse see no objection, and I trust you cannot, my father hopes his friends will be so kind as to visit him there. Jane Austen. Emma.

Typist: Moira