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Example sentences for "would wish"

  • I am leaving almost directly, mademoiselle, and I would wish to bid you good-bye.

  • She felt that, were Paul Déroulède's eyes upon her at this moment, he would wish her to remain calm and outwardly serene.

  • Yet I would wish you to know how deep is my sympathy with you, and how great my desire to render you a service if I could.

  • I-- I would wish to have five minutes' talk with you--may I?

  • Why," said the duke, "the lady I would wish to marry is nice and coy and does not much esteem my aged eloquence.

  • In pity to this young man, I would wish to persuade him from wrestling.

  • Lysimachus was well pleased to hear their commendations, and he said: "She is such a one that, were I well assured she came of noble birth, I would wish no better choice and think me rarely blessed in a wife.

  • I would wish her to be also taught geography if a proper master can be found; but suspend this till the arrival of the major.

  • But he is immersed in such an ocean of business, that I imagined it would be out of his power to bestow all the time and pains on our improvement we would wish.

  • I would wish equally to avoid the character of turbulent or passive, and am unhappy to have troubled your excellency with a matter which concerns only myself.

  • He is the companion I would wish in my studies.

  • Besides, having this opportunity, I would wish to assure Colonel Burr of the very great respect I have for those gentlemen whom General Montgomery professed to esteem; among which, sir, I am told you was not the least.

  • The unsettled state of our dispute with Spain may give a turn to it, very different from what we would wish.

  • They haue a Leader, Tullus Auffidius that will put you too't: I sinne in enuying his Nobility: And were I any thing but what I am, I would wish me onely he Com.

  • His Royall Grace (Whom God preserue better then you would wish) Cannot be quiet scarse a breathing while, But you must trouble him with lewd complaints Qu.

  • It had never even occurred to him that Barry, bad as he was, would wish to murder his sister.

  • So you did; but, to tell you the truth--your manner in coming is very different from what I would wish it to be.

  • Then Lord Ballindine insisted that they should tell young Kelly what they were about, before they went to Barry's house, as it would be necessary to consult him as to the disposition he would wish to have made of the property.

  • No one, I am sure, would wish to take any backward step.

  • I would wish never to leave this place, but to stay here," said he.

  • I do not know whether your song brings calm or unrest," said she, sadly, "but after singing it I would wish to die.

  • I would wish to die if I could die by your hand.

  • I would wish to stand and hear your voice forever.

  • I would wish to die now; but I have still a principle to defend--the honor of my family.

  • With your majesty's permission, I would wish to travel in Bohemia and Moravia, and then I wish to visit the courts of Dresden and Munich.

  • In addition to this, I would wish to leave you a personal souvenir of my friendship.

  • It is a strong conviction of the great importance of the subject, which carries me away, and makes me, perhaps, tiresome, where I would wish most to avoid it.

  • And it is this sentiment, not pity, or compassion, which I would wish to excite.

  • Do ye mean that ye would wish to be hanged?

  • This is the view that I would wish men of science to take; and it is for this purpose that I am now to examine the phenomena of the surface of this earth.

  • The marks of degradation in this island, I would wish to give in the Chevalier's own words, (p.

  • But first I would wish to carry my reader to the summit of that country, to examine the state of that part which nothing can have affected but the immediate influences of the sun and air.

  • You will take little delight in it, there is such odds in the men: in pity to this young man, I would wish to persuade him from wrestling.

  • Why,' said the duke, 'the lady I would wish to marry is nice and coy, and does not much esteem my aged eloquence.

  • He disputes the permission of this evil, he would wish one to admit that God wills it.

  • I would wish to see all these books; and as for this last proposition, it may be true in a very good sense: God is the one principal cause of pure and absolute realities, or of perfections.

  • This maxim may pass also; I would wish only to change something in the phraseology.

  • Resignation would need to be cultivated by human beings; for all round us there is a multitude of things very different from what we would wish.

  • From the Southern States he said he would wish to pass into Mexico, thence to Peru and to Chili; then to cross the Pacific Ocean to Japan, to China, to India, and so back by the overland route to England.

  • I would wish to die as becomes my father's son.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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