With the energy, however, of her original wishes and efforts, died all that could reconcile her to this sort of life.
Their own wishes and hopes were caught by other objects.
Yes, he will cease to glow so warmly with the glory of the metropolis; all his wishes will be turned toward the preservation of his family!
Numberless settlements, each distinguished by some peculiarities, present themselves on every side; all seem to realise the most sanguine wishes that a good man could form for the happiness of his race.
When the work was finished, the company made the woods resound with the noise of their three cheers, and the honest wishes they formed for Andrew's prosperity.
The reason why Lord Byron wishes for the change, arises from the repeated complaints of Mr. Henry Drury respecting his inattention to business, and his propensity to make others laugh and disregard their employment as much as himself.
Method apart, every one says he wishes for the good of mankind; and many do truly wish for it.
Then certainly the ideas and interests of that class or party will triumph, and the wishes and interests of the others will be sacrificed.
In fact, if you divest legislation and all the operations of government of what is intended to protect the privileged, and what represents the wishes of the privileged classes alone, nothing remains but the aggregate of individual governors.
She guessed shrewdly--perhaps her experiences with the late Mr. Bernard Temple helped her--that it was during the time of courtship when most of her wishes would be carried out.
What I say is this, that as Sir John Thornton is so generous, and as he wishes everyone in the house to be happy on the day of Nan's birthday, I think something should be done to make it up to Nora and me.
Under ordinary circumstances this look would have completely overmastered Annie, who would immediately have yielded up her own wishes to please Hester, but now she remained quite obdurate.
The public have long felt the convenience of such an arrangement; and the great booksellers have very wisely gratified their wishes in that respect.
Your correspondent, "QUERY," wishes to be informed what works of Ptolemy have been translated.
That a controllable squint is a very valuable asset to a person who wishes to avoid identification.
It created the possibility that, in certain circumstances, not known to or anticipated by the testator, John Blackmore might become the principal beneficiary, contrary to the obvious wishes of the testator.
And what makes it even more exasperating is the fact that this is obviously not in accordance with the wishes and intentions of Mr. Jeffrey, who clearly desired his nephew to inherit his property.
You have, I suppose, fully considered the question as to whether it would be possible to set aside the second will on the ground that it fails to carry out the evident wishes and intentions of the testator?
Our interests are very visible: and the interests and wishes and claims of Poland,--are they nowhere worthy of one word from you, O King?
I can, and will with all industry, labor to conciliate Czarish Majesty and Imperial; to produce at Petersburg such a Peace with the Turks as may meet the wishes of Vienna.
Nor is the progress of a French or European world, all silently ripening and rotting towards such issue, a thing one wishes to dwell on.
This engagement, from which everybody had expected happy consequences, did not correspond to the wishes of the Royal House.
I confine myself to forming a thousand wishesfor the prosperity of your Electoral Highness, assuring you of the high esteem with which I am,--F.
Your wife is dying at the Hotel Voltaire and wishes reconciliation before she passes away.
She wishes Robbie Belle were to enter college before we finish.
Mrs. Howard took her hand and said, "Miss Reed wishes to see you both and leave a message.
The newness and greatness of the event, the confusion of wishes and joys so embarrass the mind, that it knows not on what passion to fix itself; from whence arises a fluttering or unsettledness of the spirits.
But according to common notions a man has no power, where very considerable motives lie betwixt him and the satisfaction of his desires, and determine him to forbear what he wishes to perform.
All the spirits appeared in compliance with the Empress Jingo's wishes except Isora, the Spirit of the Seashore.
He still liked the girl, and was quite willing that she should become his son's wife, but, owing to the heated remarks of his wife and relations, he dared not reveal his wishes in the matter.
Myokei wishes Sawara to marry his daughter, and I have told him that I fully approve of the union.
He must convey in five lines, in the most felicitous language at his disposal, the idea he wishes to express.
Wishes to build temple to Kwannon in Kyoto, 179 Tobikawa.
It is also believed that if a certain ideograph is traced in the air it has the power to paralyse the dragon-fly one wishes to catch.
Gisuke offered no objections, and calling Cho to him, when the suitor had gone, he said: "Shinsaku wishes to become your husband.
At length his mother and relations, seeing that their wishes were useless, consented to the marriage, but with a very bad grace.
When he finds them, the Goddess of Lightning flashes a mirror upon those whom the God wishesto strike.
Vaudreuil wishes it because he thinks it will sound well in France, and also because he really believes the man a spy.
I am afraid, gentlemen," said Fitz, "you have no choice other than to respect the wishes of the Princess.
This being a matter upon which the Princess had fully made up her mind, it behoved the Middleshire Constabulary to defer to her wishes with the best possible grace.
Doubtless he also wishes to confer with Mrs. Arbuthnot upon the state of things in Illyria.
If the lady wishes to see the house we live in, this is the one," said Leandro.
They add, moreover, that here nobody goes astray, not even if one wishes to.
At least he who writeswishes that it may have a fair hearing.
If anyone wishesto learn what the Middle Ages were like, let him go to Carcassone and see.
The Princess and I desire to thank you heartily for your good wishes on our behalf, and for the cordial welcome which you have given us.
Believe me very sensible of your kind wishes on behalf of the Princess of Wales.
Nobody wishes more sincerely than I do prosperity to this country.
I wish also to add my good wishes for the progress and prosperity of this Association.
I assure you also that nobody more cordially wishesthis institution continued success and prosperity than I do.
I am anxious that the appropriation of this surplus, and the objects to which it should be devoted, should be in harmony with the wishes of the entire body of the Royal Commission.
I thank you again for the kind wishes you have expressed towards the Princess, myself, and our family.
Nobody wishes more sincerely than I do that the good feeling, or, as the French say, the entente cordiale, between the mother country and our great colonies may be established on a still firmer basis.
We thank you for your good wishes for the welfare of ourselves and our children, and we hope that prosperity and happiness may ever attend on the labours of the loyal and industrious inhabitants of this great city.
In conclusion, I beg again to thank you for the kind manner in which you have alluded to a recent event, and the cordial wishes you have expressed for the speedy recovery of the Princess.
Whoever wishes to see specimens of this kind may see some ludicrous ones at Hampton court--particularly of Queen Elizabeth, and the three goddesses abashed by her superiority.
It wishes to draw a full cup from the fountain of light which falls on it from time to time in a fine dew!
He wishes to give him some message to Sultan Akhmet Khan, which will bring undoubted advantage to him and to Ammalát.
The Khan's soul wishes that you should entertain him with your goodwill.
But as politeness ought in all cases to be reciprocal, the purchaser is instructed to raise his hat on entering, and ask quietly and civilly for what he wishes to see.
But he was compelled to admit, that there was now little chance of his wishes being fulfilled.
But if anyone wishes to see the real rowdy egalitarianism which is necessary (to males, at least) he can find it as well as anywhere in the great old tavern disputes which come down to us in such books as Boswell's Johnson.
A man with the true poetry of possession wishes to see the wall where his garden meets Smith's garden; the hedge where his farm touches Brown's.
It becomes unimportant, however, when we discover that he has furthermore been taken possession of at birth by the spirit of a wicked and fascinating Italian duchess, who wishes to expiate her crimes before leaving this mundane sphere.
I don't expect my wishes to be considered in anything.
Still, we mustn't forget, Ellen, that none of our wishes are perfectly sure to be realized.
He is not going to marry any woman but the one he wishes to marry.
In fixing the conditions and hours of labor for men, women, and children, the Governing Commission is to take into consideration the wishes expressed by the local labor organizations, as well as the principles adopted by the League of Nations.
The frontier between Germany and Denmark shall be fixed in conformity with the wishes of the population.
The wishes of these communities must be a principal consideration in the selection of the mandatory.
In this recommendation regard will be paid to the wishes of the inhabitants, as shown by the vote, and to the geographical and economic conditions of the locality.
In this recommendation, regard will be paid to the wishes of the inhabitants as shown by the vote, and to the geographical and economic conditions of the locality.
In order to make in due time permanent provision for the government of the Sarre Basin in accordance with the wishes of the population, France and Germany agree to the provisions of Chapter 3 of the annex hereto.
In this recommendation regard will be paid to the wishes of the inhabitants as shown by the vote and to the geographical and economic conditions of the locality.
Its policies must be subject to the administration's general strategy in the war--for instance, to the amount of munitions in comparison with the number of men or the amount of food that it wishes to send abroad at any given time.
The League of Nations shall decide on the sovereignty under which the territory is to be placed, taking into account the wishes of the inhabitants as expressed by the voting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
