We had hoped for a truce of trouble until we came up to Woodford beyond the Valley River.
I hoped to stop you without being compelled to destroy this bridge, but you force me to make this move, and I shall make it.
I hoped it might sting cruelly the hand that flung it.
But the score isn't as big as I hoped it would be," expostulated Lanky.
The afternoon had worn away while they strained and labored, trying for the last time some of the plays by means of which they hoped to carry the ball into Clifford territory during the coming game.
He really hopedthat nothing would interfere with his reaching Columbia safely, now that fortune had been so kind.
Eddie sighed as he thought of the beautiful lake at Riversdale, and then said he hoped Mr. Murray might have some ponies, as he was longing for a good canter.
Elsie wondered what they were going to do with her, and hoped she would not get into any trouble.
The manager announced in the most gracious terms that he had read with the keenest pleasure his drama in verse, entitled L'Atelier, and he hoped that the reading committee would accept this work.
He had not that shock of surprise and enthusiasm in the presence of St. Mark's and the Doges' palace which he had hoped for.
Violette hoped for a more independent career for his son, if it were possible.
When this letter was written the Endymion was becalmed, but Charles hoped to reach Portsmouth by Monday or Tuesday.
She became in time one of the best loved of the sisters-in-law; but we are told that at the time the engagement was a slight shock to Cassandra and Jane, because the lady chosen was not Martha Lloyd, as they had hoped she might be.
He dines here to-morrow and proposed bringing his son; so I must submit to seeing George Hampson, though I had hoped to go through life without it.
We reached Staines yesterday, I do not [know] when, without suffering so much from the heat as I had hoped to do.
The former went out of town, only saying that he hoped the landed interest would have its due share of influence.
The daggers were better; but Jane hoped that the besiegers would not come close enough for daggers to be of any use.
Granny was better, and mother and father hoped to be home that very afternoon.
He only hoped he would be able to understand what they said to him.
He had hoped for a victory of principles, but now saw only the possibility of a temporary compromise, achieved by political arts.
It did not, as they hoped it would, rouse up every power, hurry along the cautious and irresolute and unite them all together.
But the animosity of the parties had already grown to such a height that little was to be hoped for from conciliatory measures.
The deeper the agitation, the more they hoped to gain.
So, too, in our times, no good is to be hoped for from any party, whether under civil or ecclesiastical form, the inspiring soul of which is not the divine breath of love.
Through the bishops of Chur, especially through their friends in Graubuenden, they hoped to obtain access to the authorities of the Archducal government in Inspruck.
He feared directly the opposite of what he had first hoped for, the final overthrow of all thorough scientific culture.
The Five Cantons and the party belonging to the old faith hoped from this Conference so glorious an acknowledgment of it in the others, that even Zurich would be obliged to submit.
It washoped that their language would, for this reason, be less offensive in Obwalden.
Such a state of things could not last long in any case, but the very means, by which the Five Cantons hoped to prevent the breach, led directly to it.
He hoped by thus placing a vehement character over against a gentle one in each case, to render the after approach of the chief combatants more easy perhaps.
She had hoped to cross to England, but, expressly to prevent this, the Chief of the Police had added a postscript to his letter, forbidding her to embark at any northern port.
I certainly never hoped to find you alone," were Malcolm's first words.
Besides, Dinah sent you a message--she and Elizabeth will be delighted to see you, and all that sort of thing, and they hoped you would stay as long as possible.
But if they had been an hour late Dinah would have greeted them with the same kind smile, andhoped that they were not tired.
I hoped you would have married before this, Malcolm.
I hoped you would have stayed with us for ten days at least.
VI Ward had not been in the court-house for years, and, as he entered the building that morning, he hoped he might never be called there again if his mission were to be as sad as the one on which he then was bent.
He hoped now that his case would be one of the last.
As they passed out, the white rubber-tired carts were being wheeled down the halls, the patients they bore still breathing profoundly under the anesthetics, from which it was hoped they would awaken in their clean, smooth beds.
She hoped he had not come to dress for some engagement that would take him away.
Elizabeth had hoped that there would be no unfinished business for the society to transact, but she had not learned that there was one piece of business which was always unfinished, and that was the question of raising funds.
The ranks will be thinned, and hearts made sorrowful at their coming that hoped to rejoice in the fullest fruition of gladness.
It is hoped that The Little Times will be found in the shop of every newsvendor, and on the stalls of every railway station.
I hoped sincerely that no militia bullet would find any part of either of us.
I knew that with two young hounds they would never catch him, but I hoped that he would give them a good run before the sun killed the scent.
Besides I hoped that I should escape school, the very thought of which I hated.
This was a better chance than I had hoped for; so drawing my dagger, I resolved to put things to the test.
I hoped that the escape pipe of the bath might be a great stone conduit leading to a fish-pond in the garden.
In a way, I hoped that might have another tussle with her, not because I liked adventure, no sane creature does, but because I thought of her with liking.
I hoped to make no more stir among the fern-tops than would be made by one of the many pigs scattering about in the enclosure.
When I saw it I fondlyhoped that it led to some outer stable or cart-shed, separated from that in which the carter slept.
With a P," said Mr. Blake boldly, acting on his usual principle of asking for more than he hoped to get.
I hoped that he would pull you over the edge, so that in one short minute you became nothing but a red plum-pudding at the bottom of the gulf.
I hoped that by this time you had given up talking to yourself, Godfrey, which, as I always told you, is a bad habit.
Then she explained that she had become friendly with this young gentleman, and hoped that he would be allowed to visit her whenever he wished.
In the end it was settled that they would go to London for a night, and then on to Cornwall, which they hoped fondly might be warm at that time of year.
Sometimes the wind seemed to lull, and Digby hoped that the storm was going to be over, but it again breezed up, and blew harder than ever.
Digby hoped that he was to be allowed to remain, and to find his way home as best he could after the smugglers had gone; but again he was doomed to disappointment.
Even now Digby hoped that he might be allowed to get away.
That she was a revenue vessel Digby had no doubt; and now he hopedthat his emancipation was near.
One afternoon, a few days after Julian's arrival, Mr Nugent announced that he had engaged a vessel for the following morning, and that he hoped the long talked-of trawling expedition would at length take place.
Mrs Nugent had supplied them with some cold provisions; and they took potatoes to cook, and tea and sugar; and they hoped to catch some fish, which would be a great addition to their fare.
All the evening Mr Nugent and Marshal were preparing the jars, and bottles, and boxes for preserving the specimens of marine zoology which they hoped to dredge up.
No one, however, said that they hoped soon to see him again.
He looked at Digby with no pleasant expression, and Digby looked at him, and hoped that he was not the usher under whom he was to be placed.
He hoped to recover his friend, and to enjoy the delight of restoring him to his family.
The Doctor, of course, knew all that had occurred, and though he hoped that Julian would have been sufficiently punished, he kept a very watchful eye over him.
The major informed him that he hoped to sup in Trent.
Beaten off, they escaped up the Val di Ledro, and secretly entered Trent, where they hoped to spread revolt, but the Austrian commandant knew what a quantity of dry wood was in the city, and stamped his heel on sparks.
As regarded the expected defence of Milan, the little woman said, that if it brought on a bombardment, she would call it unpardonable wickedness, and only hoped that her daughter would repent.
Leone assured Vittoria that Angelo was aware of its nature, and approved it--hoped that the same might be done for himself.
She spoke comforting words of Carlo Ammiani, whom she hoped to see released as soon as the excitement had subsided.
She had patiently submitted to the fact of his betrothal to Vittoria, which was his safeguard in similar perils; and she rather hoped for Violetta to wean him from his extreme republicanism.
In 1902 when I informed Major Powell that I was preparing my history of the Colorado River, he said he hoped that I would put on record the second trip and the men who were members of that expedition, which I accordingly did.
The medicine chest was drawn on again, and we hopedthat the attack would not last long.
I did not care to have any Shewits or even Uinkarets visit me and I hoped they were all in their own camps, though I sometimes had a feeling that one might be watching from the shadows of the great basaltic rocks.
All hands kept an ear open for signal shots, which we hoped to hear soon, and have the Major once more in our company.
The year 1871 ended in this way and we hoped the new one would be more propitious.
We hoped Monday would begin the week with a clear sky, but we were disappointed.
We hoped to be able to get some new shoes from Salt Lake when we reached the Uinta River and again would be in touch, even though a very long touch, with the outside world.
They had met with no Indians on the way in and they hoped to be equally fortunate going back having no desire to see any.
She at first refused the valuable present Leonard had sent her, saying that to receive forgiveness was in itself more than she had hoped for.
I had hoped that you knew me too well to think it necessary to ask the question," Leonard said earnestly.
They had hoped to surprise them without giving time for others of the king's soldiers to lend their aid.
Thus he hoped to draw Coryon's people away from the palace and the houses to this place, where, he says, it will be better to make a stand and fight them, since thus no other persons will be injured in the encounter.
She hoped for the coming of Pomponia and Aulus; she entreated that they too be present.
He understood this now for the first time, when he hoped to possess her.
What Greek, or even barbarian, could have hoped for this?
Petronius was a man of courage and felt no dread of death; but since he hoped nothing from it, he had no wish to invite it.
He hoped also that Christ would let him continue to serve her.
It was determined, therefore, to seize them at all costs, for it was hoped that with their death the last root of the hated sect would be plucked out.
Lygia had made no confession to her, but she had said that she looked for rescue to him, to Vinicius: she had hoped that he would obtain for her permission from Cæsar to return home, that he would restore her to Pomponia.
But he hoped that it would not be too difficult to persuade him to the journey without her.
He hoped to finish that night with the guards, but wished first to run in to see his mother, who in that uncertain and dreadful time had no rest for a moment thinking of her son.
In going to the feast, she had hoped that Vinicius and Petronius would win her from Cæsar, and return her to Pomponia; now she knew that it was they who had brought Cæsar to remove her from the house of Aulus.
The wide street led us into the business region, and we hoped it might carry us to the hotels.
I don't know yet what "Association" it was that was heartless enough to give an order like that, but I hoped it would live to repent it.
This was honor, but when one day the Bishop of Avignon was made Pope John XXII, and established his seat in his own home, the little city became suddenly what Arles had only hoped to be--the capital of the world.
It is to behoped that "the uncontrollable principle" will not appear so very like an uncontrollable want of it as it did in days gone by!
I did not know Greville was going home so soon, I hoped to have shaken him by the sain hand once more before we parted for so long.
What became of the women and children we know not; it is hoped they might have been sent away earlier and escaped; otherwise it is horrible to think of what may have been their fate.
He hoped that, owing to the rain or the sun, he might get her to stop under some doorway, and that, once there, she would go into some house.
Nan could see his head and shoulders now and then as he plunged on after the sleigh, and a wickeder looking beast, she hopednever to see.
Once she was afraid Margaret had come to the window to peep in when Nan had the doll out of her hiding place; but she was not sure, and Nan hoped her secret was still inviolate.
We hoped to give our children, if we were blessed with them, an even better start in life than we had.
She hoped that Toby would feel sufficient gratitude to help Uncle Henry win his case against Gedney Raffer.
It is over two months since he came here, and yet the--er--affair which we had hoped to bring about seems no nearer its conclusion than when first he came.
We had not hoped that you would arrive so soon, but fortunately my daughters, to whom you appear to have been of service at Choisy, warned me that you were journeying hither.
Moreover, every Hebrew woman might be destined to become the mother of the long hoped for Messiah, and the mere possibility of that event won for her a high degree of reverence.
He was a profligate Roman, who had been guilty of malversation in office and hoped by his new alliance to return to power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
