In a private letter he says: "I need not tell you that I went to England with no purpose or thought of being lionized, but only quietly to see old friends, to seek recreation, hoping to renovate my failing health by the voyage.
His father, noticing the change, got him on a course of biographical reading, hoping to divert his thoughts.
What racing and chasing along muddy western roads, to obscure towns, each party hoping that the length of the way and the depth of the mud would discourage their opponents, keep them away and so give their own side the majority.
She stood at the other side of the table, hoping he would look up and say something--but he still continued writing.
Selina gave her a pretty, insipid kiss, and Maria bade her good-bye, hoping she would soon learn to keep the brats in order.
It was impossible to decide; and anxious to gain time, she dismissed her daughter with promises and caresses, hoping to discover some method of evading the annoyances which menaced her.
Quick as thought he turned up the first street he came to, hoping to throw them off the scent and get home by a back way.
Hoping you will publish this, as I think you ought to do, Yours truly, CHUBB Minor.
Jackson continued up the Valley and stopped at Mount Jackson, hoping the Federals would follow.
Hoping to protect Rockfish Gap, General Early had his Confederate forces quartered in the town.
One day in October, 1864 he was granted a furlough and was riding southward to Culpeper, hoping to reach his home in that county.
She was desperately hoping that her hair was smooth and that there wasn't any blue from the typewriter ribbon daubed on her cheeks!
Gently arbitrary, dearer than ever to Una in her helpless longing for kindly neighbors and the familiar places, Mrs. Golden went on hoping that she could persuade Una to go back to Panama.
So he sits down, and feasts his foolish eyes upon his idol, hoping for a few words before the evening is over.
And so she swept in, with her arm round Lucia's waist; while Elsley stood looking after her, well enough satisfied with her reception of him, and onlyhoping that the stream of words would slaken after a while.
But he had a strongly-hoping heart and a sure foot.
Hoping to throw the destroyer off, the Z-3 doubled on her track.
Then I stationed myself in front of the canteen hoping to flag a passing ambulance.
I piloted them across to the office, and returned to the canteen, hoping to find an American ambulance boy who would run me over to the hospital.
I at once went to bet on his adversary; hoping to lose my money.
Hoping and intreting that it may not bee offensiue, though in this sorte I make relation of their actions.
All was eagerness now, and they pressed forward, hoping to be able to reach the open country before night set in.
As night approached it increased, but they continued tacking, hoping that they might reach the western extremity, and thus be able to run to the east before the wind.
A vile whitewash disfigures the walls, whilst the fact that the church has not been designed by one hand as a complete whole deprives us of that satisfied sense of perfect proportion for which we are forever hoping but so often in vain.
He had also a theme to write on "The Future of Our Country," and he devoted considerable time to this, hoping it would receive at least honorable mention, even if it did not win the prize offered for the best production.
Well, I amhoping for something better," said Roger.
I am like Roger, hoping for something better," answered our hero, with a smile.
I mention this little incident hoping it may prove a warning to the unwary who, like myself, may fall among the sharpers of the Modern Athens.
Noiselessly as a shadow, he stepped out, hoping to escape the attention of his canine guards; but in a moment, every cur was on his feet and were about to make the welkin ring, when he threw at the leader the contents of his vial.
Gladys opened her brown eyes wide to see her cousins, their sleeves stripped up, plunging their hands blindly about hoping to trap their reluctant playfellow.
Very sadly he retraced his steps and carefully covered the precious bulb, hoping that when the season of storm and frost was past, there might come to it renewed life.
I have heard of your illness, and wishing to render you any assistance in my power, I have ventured, unannounced, into your presence, hoping that I at least am not unwelcome.
And leaving her with Ann he went to his room, hoping to get some work done.
She did not resist, nor did she break out weeping as he had been almost hoping that she would do.
He knew that the work was not good, but he would say nothing, secretly hoping that she would soon tire of the drudgery and let him get at the machine, as he was now hungry to do, in his own way.
She did not know as she crossed West street, now silent and deserted as a country road, that Jimmie had walked recklessly through its roaring traffic, weakly half hoping that something would happen to him.
We long for rest, we long to flee, Hoping some friendly haven may be found Of refuge from the fierce desire, That raging, roaring, darkens all around.
On June 27th he put into North Bergen in the Shetlands for water, and thence passed the Orkneys and stretched toward the North Cape, hoping to intercept the Archangel fleet.
Instead of this he always declined the fight when alone; and he owed his ultimate success to the fact that the Essex instead of escaping, as she could several times have done, stayed, hoping to bring the Phoebe to action single-handed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
