Some sanguinepeople love for life-- Some love their hobby till it flings them.
But then the counting was in our own hands, and an enterprising official might be sanguine in his figures.
The eyes of his countrymen were upon him; and he well knew the sanguineanticipations they had formed of his campaign, and that they would hold him responsible for its success.
He had won a victory more complete than the most sanguine of his countrymen had a right to anticipate.
Still we must not base over-sanguine calculations on it, or attempt to winter very weak stocks, which a provident apiarian would at once unite with a stronger colony.
Having succeeded with regard to your little protege, you are now so sanguine with respect to yourself, that a trifle light as air is magnified, as the poet says, 'into confirmation strong as holy writ.
Under the influence of the fiery stimulant, Kent's sanguine temperament boiled and bubbled over.
We've succeeded beyond our most sanguine expectations, as the boy said, who ran away from school to catch minnows, and caught a ducking, a bad cold and a licking.
He never tired of it, and in his more sanguine moods he looked forward to the time when the world would acknowledge its merits, and his genius would find full recognition.
Master Gridley threw cold water on the young man's too sanguine anticipations of success.
It is a pity, for he seemed a smart fellow, and sanguine about getting to the bottom of it.
In sanguine fœdus=--A covenant ratified in blood.
Our population advances with a celerity which, exceeding the most sanguine calculations, proportionally augments our strength and resources, and guaranties our future security.
With all the merits of a sanguine temper, our young English drover was not without his defects.
He talked long with Margaret, and, she says, was not sanguine as to the outcome of the difficulties of the moment.
And were not man ever more sanguine than facts at the moment justify, he would remain torpid, or be sunk in sensuality.
I confess, frankly, that I hold their sentiments, and entertain hopes of ultimate good to my country as sanguine as theirs.
Virtuous in his character, sanguine in his hopes, present evils he saw, and for present remedies he panted--but he looked not far on to consequences.
All my sanguine hopes have planned To thy wisdom I resign, And would make thy purpose thine.
He draped the tapestries and strode into the sitting room with his shoulders held back--a sanguine light in his olive eyes.
Women in furs and heavy cloaks glanced up at his olive face from which peered sanguine eyes bent upon a known destination.
The expert was not of a sanguine disposition in the minute which ensued as he ran over the prints, studied them, held them to the light then laid them down on a table and shook his head.
The least sanguinepeople here expect, the latter end of this month or the beginning of the next, to have the account of the taking of Cape Breton, and of all the forts with hard names in North America.
In some articles I am very sure that my most sanguine wishes will not be disappointed; and those are the most material ones.
You have a fund to be sanguine upon, and good forces to rally.
It was built just at the exact moment when steamboats were on the point of revolutionizing ocean traffic; and so, though in itself a magnificent and lordly undertaking, it failed to satisfy the sanguine hopes of its projectors.
As each day in its flight carried the Stamp Act and the repeal more remotely into past history, the sanguine and peaceably minded began to hope that England and the colonies might yet live comfortably in union.
But Franklin was at once too patriotic and too sanguine to admit that matters were so bad as they seemed.
No man was sanguine enough to see hope for the colonies, when suddenly an occurrence, which in this age could not appreciably affect the power of an English premier, snapped Grenville's sway in a few days.
For he was sanguine by nature, by resolution, and by policy; and his way of alluring good fortune was to welcome it in advance.
He had long since ceased to be sanguine on any subject; and he felt that he could sustain disappointment on graver matters than this.
We see the confident, smirking tradesman gaily holding up the bottomless sack, and Scott, with the sublime folly of a generous and sanguine nature, pouring his hard-won treasures into it.
We know from Lockhart that the editor's most sanguine expectations were exceeded by its success.
But Scott was sanguine by nature, and it was the interest of the Ballantynes to keep their businesses going.
Their hope, if sanguine as to its immediate fulfillment, was far from groundless.
Bishop Wilberforce wrote: "Gladstone has risen entirely to his position, and done all his most sanguine friends hoped for as leader.
The result of the elections throughout the country exceeded the most sanguineexpectations of the Liberals.
Fritz seemed sanguine that we would be able to return for more, but of that I was far from certain.
But I was sanguine that I could succeed, though hundreds had failed before me.
While in this sanguine state, an individual who had been for thirty years a publisher and editor, prompted, as he said, by a sincere interest in my welfare, called to see me in order to give me the benefit of his experience.
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