I do not wish to make you vain, but I may add, especially as you are aware of my personal feelings toward you, that you are the only person in the world to whom I would make this offer.
Our voyage is only begun, and I do not wish to be deprived so soon of the honour of your company.
Oh, sir, it will not get better if we do not wish it.
I will say no more; I do not wish to enter into minute explanations, for I do not need to do so.
You know it now--I do not wish you to marry Rosario!
You are free either to accept or to reject it, and if there is in your mind the slightest repugnance to it, arising either from your inclinations or from any other cause, I do not wish you to do violence to your feelings on my account.
The entite is the support of those who do not wish to confess their ignorance.
You know that I love her, and yet I do not wish to owe anything to her spite.
Langis said, in a wholly unconstrained voice: "I do not wish M.
I do not wish in the least to reflect on the morality of the "Shikarris"; but it is on record that four men jumped up as if they had been shot.
During this process of lighting the pipe we had sat--I do not wish to use exaggerated language, but we had sat and watched that alcoholic scamp's proceedings as though we were witnessing an action which would leave its mark upon the age.
I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing.
I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.
I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.
I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors.
I do not wish to be rash, but want to give my rebel friends no chance to accuse us of want of enterprise or courage.
I do not wish to discuss these points involved in our recognition of the State governments in actual existence, but will merely state my conclusions, to await the solution of the future.
But I do not wish to go in the road of Rufinus, whose history I was to tell thee, nor of Fabricius Veiento; hence no one knows of this, and do thou mention it to no man.
I want you to have the comfort of a house, but I do not wish to force one upon you, against your will or against your judgement.
I know you do not wish to be away, though you are striving to get as far away as possible.
I think I ought to know, as she refused my son, and I do not wish to know his name.
The natives of the Upper Nile knock out the four front teeth, saying that they do not wish to resemble brutes.
But I do not wish to assert that this tendency may not be more than counterbalanced in other ways, as by the multiplication of the reckless and improvident; but even to such as these, ability must be some advantage.
This fashion is carried so far that the Indians of Paraguay eradicate their eyebrows and eyelashes, saying that they do not wish to be like horses.
But I do not wish to deny that the females alone of some species may have been specially modified for protection.
I do not wish to tease her with my--' 'She knows, she longs to help you.
I do not wish you to break with an old friend while we know of no positive charge against her, though I should think there could be little to attract you.
If their good opinion depends on narrow-minded prejudice, I donot wish for it.
I do not wish to restrain your reasonable freedom, but I must beg that another time you will not fix your plans without some reference.
They were very kind in asking me,' said Lady Elizabeth, 'and so was Emma about leaving me; but I do not wish to be a drag upon her.
I do not know your name, I do not wish to know it, and I tell you mine, it is Ducoudray.
I do not wish to banish my son," the king protested.
After a suitable time she continued: "I should not like your son to be at Tara when I am there, or for a year afterwards, for I do not wish to meet him until I have forgotten him and have come to know you well.
But at this demand the lady frowned and answered decidedly: "I do not wish to tell it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not wish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
