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Example sentences for "wished them"

  • They did not say anything about leaving the fish-curer, but only he wished them to agree.

  • I asked him where he wished them from, and he said Hay & Co.

  • They might have gone to the ends of the earth, to the south, or elsewhere, for anything he cared; but when they did fish, I suppose he wished them to fish for Williamson.

  • He did not wish to keep the inhabitants of the South-western Territory out of the Union, but he wished them to be admitted in a constitutional mode.

  • He differed from the opinion formed by the House, but he wished them to act in conformity to their own principle.

  • If gentlemen wished to carry the Treaties into effect, he entreated them to come forward and do so; or, if they meant to defeat them, he wished them at once to say so.

  • He did not mean to alarm the people of the United States, but he wished them to understand their situation.

  • He wished them coolly to deliberate upon the business, which they could scarcely be expected to do, when their passions were so strongly affected as they must be at present.

  • Every branch of Government had the same right, and he wished them to exercise it.

  • I thought it would be prudent, however, to abstain from calling at Laura's house, for fear of the chattering nuns contriving to know it, and discovering in that manner a great deal more than I wished them to find out.

  • I began by writing to my chief creditor that I had decided to come to an agreement with them, but I wished them all to wait upon my notary, with witnesses, to put a formal close to the action and render me a free man again.

  • They were amazed, and, as I wished them to have full scope for wrong reasoning, I left them.

  • We wished them at Jericho, where the man fell among those who used him worse than a Turk would have done.

  • They there wished me good-night, and I wished them at the devil.

  • We wished them, and sometimes ourselves, in heaven.

  • The first thing he wished them to prize was, their Sunday School.

  • In the third place, he wished them to prize their chapel.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    compact mass; could gain; few more; four braccia; free city; general paralysis; grand army; historical research; its author; left foot; let them; many races; mighty warrior; modern society; saw three ships come; sensible woman; shall suffer; slender stalk; though more; what would you think; wide reputation; wished himself; wished them