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Example sentences for "might hope"

  • But the moment drew near when I might hope to squeeze her tiny fingers and press her hand tenderly in mine.

  • The dance at an end, I impatiently awaited the following one, when I should be able to talk with Caroline, and it would be easy for me to find out how far I might hope.

  • I had no doubt that she had read my note, and on the morrow I would go to her shop and find out how far I might hope.

  • However, the occurrence made us look out more carefully for deer, as we might hope to catch one or two, and venison we calculated would be highly prized by our friends.

  • We might hope to reach some place where we could defend ourselves until the savage pack had grown weary of besieging it.

  • We had been saved from one danger, we might hope to escape others.

  • This was fortunate, as we might hope to capture him by stratagem, without the use of steam.

  • Still the disparity was not so great, but that I might hope to beat my enemy in a fair fight.

  • If he could succeed in reconstructing the Southern States, to the exclusion of Congress, he might hope to get the votes of those States in the next Presidential election.

  • With a little management and caution, I might hope to uncover the birds, no faster than I could bag them.

  • The want of sails prevented our taking the ship into some sheltered place which we might hope to find on one side or the other.

  • We soon found a palm of moderate dimensions, which we might hope, even with our knives, to cut down in the course of a day or two by working away assiduously.

  • Oliver proposed that we should look for another spot at a lower level, where we might hope to be more successful.

  • Had it not therefore been for the presence of the mulatto mate and his associate, we should have had no great cause for anxiety, as we might hope in a short time to be rescued by some vessel visiting the spot.

  • The wind blew from them, so that we might hope to get near without being perceived.

  • This, coupled with their quietness, made me suspect that they also had got hold of a cask of wine, and that as long as that lasted we might hope to escape any annoyance from them.

  • With this unexpected ally we might hope to deal forcefully and yet fairly with my rear-guard.

  • The night was dark, and as the roads where they were anchored were very wide, I might hope to slip by without being observed.

  • How distant the prospect appeared, with the numberless vicissitudes of a sailor's life intervening, when we might hope to meet again!

  • To allow Carleton to reach Ticonderoga without opposition would be disheartening, whereas by delay and vexation he might hope to dampen the enthusiasm of the invader.

  • The pay of the private soldier was much above the wages earned by the great body of the people; and, if he distinguished himself by intelligence and courage, he might hope to attain high commands.

  • The judge and the elders would go to him and state when each villager might hope to bring his due, and therewith the mandatar was satisfied.

  • But I wanted to have some idea how soon I might hope to see the Emperor.

  • By these means he might hope to join the Duke; though it was but a forlorn hope.

  • The present state of excitement in the country appeared to afford him an opportunity by which, after some active employment, he might hope soon to realise the object of his wishes.

  • From others hope is none; since they who raise This fearful war against him, are his own: Vext by that cruel one, aye night and day, Whom he might hope to find his natural stay.

  • There was so much truth in this idea as that amid the disorders of a Russian retreat he might hope to pass undetected in his disguise.

  • The chief explained that far to the north, in the high hills above the lower valley of the Mu-tan-chiang, he might hope to elude pursuit for an indefinite period.

  • When they were well on their way he suggested to his guide that it would be good policy to follow hard on their heels; entering the city in their wake he might hope to pass without attracting special attention.

  • After fourteen years he might hope to be permitted to return to Siberia or Russia.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cups water; might come; might fall; might have been anticipated; might have been said; might make; might never; might possibly; might seem; might still; might think; might well; mighty army; mighty chief; mighty fine; mighty good; mighty hand; mighty hard; mighty host; mighty nigh; mighty sight; mighty warrior; mighty well; never seed; rough sketch; these letters