The Earl wished it to take place when he could be present and give away the bride, and he wanted first a fortnight's retreat at Ashridge, to which place he had arranged to go on the last day of September.
He wished Clarice to take it, if her husband would allow her, and was willing to continue in his service.
His master wished his attendance in his private sitting-room.
Even if she wished to come back after this, she could never retrace her steps.
When Clarice timidly inquired what name he wished the child to bear, Vivian distinctly intimated that the child and all her belongings were totally beneath his notice.
I do believe that, if she had made up her mind to a match between them, she would undo it again, if she thought they wished it.
I suppose that would scarcely do," said the Countess, in a tone which sounded as if she wished it would.
Clarice had not been told of their coming by the Countess, because she was not sufficiently interested; by the Earl, because he wished it to be a pleasant surprise.
I am an Independent, but I would go to Church if my employers wished it.
I sometimes wished that he had never inherited any love whatever for what is usually considered to be the Best, and that he had been endowed with an organisation coarse and commonplace, like that of his colleagues.
When the question came what was to be done with him after he left school, his father naturally wished him to go into the mill.
I wished I could cut the rope and carelessly cast him adrift as he had cast me adrift, but I could not.
I wished also to avoid the self-mortification which must ensue from altercation.
He would have liked to offer a messengership, but the Treasury had hundreds of applications from great people who wished to dispose of favourite footmen whose services they no longer required.
If he were going to try to tutor Margaret Adair, whose slightest wish had never yet known contradiction, she thought it probable that the much-wished for marriage would never take place at all.
He retained the Red House, but he bestowed on his brother enough to give him an ample income for the life that Cuthbert and Nora wished to lead.
You only let him think that he was to be forced to do it--you only made him lose faith in you as his natural protector, and believe that you wished him to do what he thought wrong!
Well, as I was saying, I wished to speak to you about your friend, Miss Colwyn.
For the first time in her life she wondered whether she had been mistaken in the girl, who had always seemed to reproduce so accurately the impressions that her teachers and guardians wished to make.
This will be your home always: Andrew particularly wished me to say so.
Of course I betrayed no sign of recognition, but I wished myself at Jericho very heartily.
And Lady Ashley, seeing that her departure was really wished for, hurried from the house.
No, I was standing here wishing that I could see you first of all; and, just as I wished it, you came in sight.
He told her vaguely that he had had a miserable, unsatisfactory sort of life, and that he wished to amend.
Lady Caroline wished that he had left the words unsaid.
She was at that very moment standing in the conservatory opposite a tall, dark man, who, hat in hand, looked at her expectantly as if he wished her to open the conversation.
She returned his love, but was too conscientious to elope with him and forget her cousin, as he wished her to do.
A little more reserve, a little more caution, in your demeanor, and you will be all that I have ever wished you to be--a credit to your parents and to the school which has educated you!
Now they wished to push on, but their guide swore that it was impossible, as in the dark they would fall over precipices while descending to the plain.
Yes, they kissed her, and the queen threw about her a chain from her own neck as a parting gift, and wished her joy of so gallant a lord.
Peter began to give thanks for this judgment; but while he was still speaking the king asked if any of those present wished to proceed in further suits.
He assented readily, indeed it was clear that he wished to be rid of them, for the other men were staring at the guide and their companion, and muttering amongst themselves.
So I went, who wished to learn all that I could of the building.
The colony was kept poor by the great expense incurred in employing agents to defend itself from the surrounding colonies, that wished to crush it.
He had long been interested in northwest explorations; and, according to his own account, he wished to go as mate with Knight twenty-five years before.
They wished to be members of such a Church themselves; and not only so, but also to force upon others such membership.
They professed that they still clung to its breast, and wished to be nourished from it.
They wished to have hand and voice in initiating and planning the ecclesiastical institutions under which they were to live as Christians.
And, as I have become a friend of the Admiral’s, if I wished to go thither I should get an archbishopric.
The Puritans wished to sort out the draught of the Gospel net, which gathered of every kind.
Hakluyt had this, and says in effect, in the Introduction of his 1589 edition, that the friends of Drake who did not wish their publications forestalled, had wished him to omit it.
Drake wished to recompense him, but he would take nothing but a hat, which was thrown into the water.
She sometimes indeed thought she saw repentance in Chloe's face, and wished for nothing more than to seal her pardon.
He wished a nation founded which should cross the Alleghanies, and, holding the mouths of the Mississippi, take possession of all that vast and then unknown region.
You wished me a happy Christmas instead, and I ought to have had one in consequence.
I myself, however, did not fancy that dear Avery wished to encourage him.
Mr. Lorimer playfully remarking that he wished to give his young daughter the benefit of his individual attention during the period of his brief sojourn with them.
They both of them wished it to be as quiet as possible," murmured Mrs. Lorimer.
Privately she was growing anxious about Jeanie, and she wished that he would be more communicative.
But I've often wished to heaven since that I'd stayed and faced it out.
She wishedshe might have had longer for the building of that wall.
But he came forward then and shook hands with them both and wished them happiness.
There were times when Sir Beverley almost wished he had been, albeit in the bitterness of his soul he had never had any love for the child she had borne him.
Indeed he was pretty well convinced that he had done nothing of the sort, and he wished for a chance to think, so that he might determine what was best to be done.
Jake Elliott had objected, and his objection being peremptorily overruled by Sam, he had undertaken to go on alone to the point at which he wished to pass the remainder of the day, and the night.
He merely wished to make the boy hold his tongue, and he meant to do that in any case, using whatever measure of violence he might find necessary to that end.
The man was now in precisely the mood in which Sam wished to have him.
Sam took the first watch, because he wished to see, before going to sleep, that everything was likely to go well.
The Evangel has always been good news to sinning people who wished to be different.
And it is significant that both the governor and the Assembly wished to have the laws read before Bacon's men "for their satisfaction.
Thomas Mathews tells us that Berkeley wished to hang it on a gibbet, but on exhuming his casket he found in it nothing but stones.
It had occurred to him that his drastic action might have more disastrous effects than merely nipping Denis's passion in the bud, and he wished to rejoin the company at Brineweald at the earliest possible moment.
Well," he said, "I was beginning to tell you why you wished to lead me astray.
The Incandescent Gerald was so jubilant that he wished to laugh outright; but his keen eager wife prevented him.
There was a general movement as if the whole party wished to draw closer to the speaker, and Stephen Fearwell, who was leaning against one of the outside uprights of the bower, swung round until his head was well inside the shelter.
She was groping for strength: she wishedto fortify herself.
Mrs. Delarayne began to examine her rings very studiously, as if she wished to make quite certain that none of the stones had gone astray in the last five minutes.
In that brief moment in the woods with Leonetta, he had wished to achieve but one object,--to show Denis plainly and finally that Leonetta could not be his.
The vast and peaceful expanse of the grounds delighted him, and knowing the pertinacity and loquacity of his fair admirer, he wished to have both his walk and his first view of his new abode alone, before presenting himself at the house.
Its most important characteristic is that it adopts a mnemonic form,--that is to say, the form you would instinctively cast words into if you wished to remember them.
However, he wished to allow for every possible chance.
I neverwished him--Willy, I say I am sorry, but I don't really feel anything.
She wished never to see him again, but the revolt that had followed her knowledge of the conditions under which he had married her was gone.
She was going there now, not so much because she wished to go, as because she began to feel that her Aunt Elinor needed her.
Did Tom"--there were many things the old lady, knowing Tom, wished to ask.
Again she glanced at the window and wished for Billy Stark.
It was as if she spoke to one whom she wished to regard leniently, though she might in reality shower her with that elfin raillery which was the outcome of her own inquietude.
She wished she could see it crowning some head, not hers, some girl quite worthy of him.
He had wishedto kill the man, but God instead had killed him.
With his death he seemed to have withdrawn into a remote place where no summons could reach him, even if she wished to call.
She wished she were able to be as easy as she liked; but she never could be, with other people perpetually doing and saying things in such bad taste.
The ring was of a very antique pattern and shewished to have it copied for a wedding present for one of her pupils.
And I told mother that I wished for a ring-dove," said Boris.
Nan had been very snubbing and very disagreeable, and Kitty cordially hated her for the time being, and wished with all her heart that Boris was there.
Hester took her to it, saw that she had every comfort, and wished her good-night.
Kitty said afterwards that the dirge made her feel nearly as bloodthirsty as a Red Indian, and Boris openly wished that he could live in a wigwam and wear scalps.
But Tom did not feel satisfied, for it seemed to him that he was behaving in a cowardly way; and as he tramped along the lane, he wished that he had walked out boldly and confronted his enemy instead of remaining in hiding.
For he wished to meet her in the moon that night, but when they did meet, the white veil of the falling waters of the dam blew across her face and he could not brush it away.
He had not replied to the letter from the law department of the Provisions Company which asked if he wished to sue for libel, and begged him to do so.
He said that he did not agree with his cousin Alexander upon all the points the latter had mentioned, that he did not care to prolong a violent scene, and he wished him good morning.
He believed that he was doing right, he wishedto do what was kind, and he knew that he was acting legally and that the law must support him.
It was not until half an hour later that they found themselves together in the crowded entrance hall, and Ralston assured himself more particularly that everything was as she wished it to be.
He did not in the least trouble himself to find out why he liked Ralston, and wished to be of service to him, and he wisely asked for nothing whatever in return for what he gave.
The violent opposition had come from Katharine’s father when, a year previously, the two had boldly told him that they loved each other and wished to be married.
He wished everything to be legal, and the best way to make it so was to follow a lawyer’s directions.
She found fault with little things that Katharine did in a way John had never noticed before, and as for himself, she evidently wishedhe had not come.
But he was very far from looking up to him, and perhaps even from respecting him as he wishedthat he might.
Hamilton Bright, on the contrary, often wished himself away, and in spite of his excessively correct appearance even the easy formality of American metropolitan life was irksome to him.
He wished that he were free to tell her everything, however, and to ask her advice.
Katharine noticed that when he next wished to dispose of the pencil he put it into his pocket.
She even wished that she were not obliged to go into Fifth Avenue, where she might meet an acquaintance, or at all events to cross it, as she decided to do when she reached the first corner.
A couple of Cockney Tommies had also made a dive for the shelter of this pile of bricks and were crouching down, when the officer crawled from the fireplace.
Suddenly the expected happened, and in a few minutes one of the sweepers was settling down fast by the stern.
One November night a miserable ration party was wading through the thin slimy mud.
Uncle Ross wanted to make a business man of him; Uncle Jack wished him to go into the army.
If I wished Catherine to be worldly-wise, Mrs. Arderne, I should be wishing her to give me up.
Uncle Ross wished to prevent Catherine from speaking to his brother.
When he wished to show how water flowing over soft ground resulted in a deltoid Nile, he took the class to a low, flat portion of the creek bed and pointed out the effect.
For example, the respect which we all have for the property of others is a habit, and is so firmly intrenched that we should find ourselves unable to steal if we wished to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
