Wishing

Examples

• Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Burke, now:--when I think of Burke, I can't help wishing somebody had a pocket-borough to give you, Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You have a reason, Walter, for wishing her to know of her husband's death besides the reason you have just mentioned? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As to wishing, my dear Ladislaw, I have the highest opinion of your powers, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I am grateful to you for wishing to do the best for me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And at his side let us place the just man in his nobleness and simplicity, wishing, as Aeschylus says, to be and not to seem good. Plato. The Republic.
• Mr. Brooke came for his umbrella, began Meg, wishing that Mr. Brooke and the umbrella were safely out of the house. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She had been decided in wishing for a Miss Weston. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Because I have particular reasons for wishing to know something of him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My aunt is acting like a sensible woman in wishing for you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any thing like it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• After wishing Mrs. Sydenham joy I took my leave. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I can't help wishing sometimes, that Mother and Father hadn't been so particular about such things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But what signifies our wishing? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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