The Queen was in no way shocked, but rather pleased; she did not order the ambassador to be turned out of her palace, but heard him expound his plan, wishing she might have followed it.
On this occasion the abbot took a strong body of archers with him, but wishing to avoid, if possible, the scandal of carrying off the abbess by force, he left them at Pontoise.
He went down to Portsmouth and put the planks and fittings on board some collier boats, but not wishing to share their voyage, he started for Marseilles, and there took a steamer to Constantinople.
When they grew older, they went abroad now and then with their parents, but Florence liked best being at home with her friends in the village, who were very proud of her wishing to take their pictures with her new photographic camera.
Why, that's just what I've been a-wishing these two hours past, my lad.
Please God, we will have a drink to-morrow," he said, wishing to soften his stem refusal.
Other and more absorbing gossip took its place: never distinctly formulated, but whispered; always wishing for more definite news that never came.
Wetherell, not wishingto be intrusive, went to his desk again, leaving the first citizen standing among the barrels.
She scarcely analyzed her feeling of wishing to avoid him.
If we differ sometimes about the best way of showing it outwardly, we at least are one in wishing the best interests of religion and of humanity.
He did not think it honest to conceal the reason for his wishing leave of absence, and briefly related the story of his finding his old nurse and of her revelation.
He who has never shaken hands with the devil, however, can have little idea how hard it is to loose his grasp; and Philip groaned at the thought of how far he was even from wishing to put his love out of its high place in his heart.
But my reasons forwishing this meeting are much more than this--indeed, most urgent!
Any one who lives with you, Felicity King, will always be wishing he was somewhere else," said Dan.
A wishing fairy might have had the time of her life in the King kitchen that morning--particularly if she were a cynically inclined fairy.
I wish girls had some sense," said Dan--which brought the orgy of wishing to an end for the time.
There's no use being naughty if you spoil your fun by wishing all the time you were good.
Wishing you a good recovery, or at any rate hoping that you will not be worse than you are, "I am "F.
Now I close this letter, dear wife, by wishing you happy days far from all the tumult of the world.
You are right, and our good Socrates was a Sophist, without wishing to be one.
And the said Indians, not wishing to fall with them, gave information to this witness, as their cura, which he communicated at length to his most reverend Lordship, bringing the Indians to him so that they might tell him.
But you must remember that Mrs Naylor's girls are young yet, and I cannot blame her for wishing to look about before fixing their position for life.
Still, there is excuse for a mother wishing not to bury her accomplished daughter in the backwoods, as wife to a wild huntsman.
Or perhaps she was wishing that she had not made them go.
If it be so," wrote Chapuys, "the Lady Anne is under a singular delusion, for she writes to her friends that at this interview all that she has been so long wishing for will be accomplished.
Growled at on both sides, in terror for himself, in terror for the Church, the Pope drifted on, hoping for some accident to save him which never came, and wishing perhaps that his illness had made an end of him.
So far from wishing to reconcile England with the Papacy, the Pope informed Cifuentes that Francis was now ready and willing to help the Apostolic See in the execution of the sentence against the King of England.
Chapuys, wishing to learn how much had been discovered, asked what Cromwell meant.
Papers that old Mr. Mullen"--She left her sentence unfinished, not wishing to risk displaying her ignorance of the real nature of the documents in question.
Flossy had proposed that they call for Ease Apthorpe; and her cousin, who had been secretly wishing her to make this suggestion, assented with alacrity.
If it be granted that rules may be proved by their exceptions, one wishing to defend the truth of the cynical aphorism that virtue, like happy nations, has no history, could choose no more convincing argument than to cite La Belle Hamilton.
The instigator of this spiritual seduction was Colbert, who, wishing to enrich and ennoble his family, conceived the idea of marrying the heiress to his brother.
Charles, wishing to flatter and soften her in every imaginable way, decided that the memory of her loveliness should be commemorated on the medals and coins minted during his reign.
The subject cannot possibly be a dry one, but (without wishing to throw cold water on the author) we are bound to say that we have no particular thirst for the knowledge he undertakes to impart.
The pilot was urging the captain to cast off, and take advantage of the tide and wind, but the latter was awaiting the arrival of a boy who had shipped the day before, wishing no good to his eyes for the delay he had occasioned.
It was great fun wishing a miser a happy new year.
Jack began to think the happiest day of his life had made him the most miserable dog alive, and, like Sir Peter Teazle, "had lost all comfort in the world before his friends had done wishing him joy.
Mrs. Homfray unites with me in best compliments, and wishing you many happy returns of the season.
But they stood round me till I said 'Good night,' and then all kissed me, wishing me good dreams.
Here Orpheus is reputed to have come and founded the Bacchic Mysteries; while another legend reports him to have been killed by the Bacchantes for wishing to substitute the worship of Apollo for that of Dionysos.
Every one of these kings of the earth implores thy name, when wishing for help.
At last, growing fearful that I had somehow missed him at the mouth of the dark alley, I walked slowly back in my tracks, wishing that I had a thicker jacket, since it was beginning to rain rather smartly.
I was looking at this schooner, wishing that I could pass an hour in her hold, among those delicious boxes, when a bearded man came on deck from her cabin.
After examining the bath, wishing that I had known of it before eating, I went back to the dining room, where the servant was clearing away the food.
A few feet further on, I was wishing most heartily that I had never left my room in London.
I picked myself up at that, wishing for a basin of water into which I might shove my head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
