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Example sentences for "only hope"

  • In such circumstances, my only hope is the speedy success of the Hartel affair in connection with the "Nibelungen," which had been broken off.

  • The thought of being able to go with you through this work also is my only hope of reward.

  • I only hope, dearest Richard, that you will hear and see all this before very long, and when I pay you a visit in the course of the summer, we shall have some more talk about it.

  • Well, I only hope it may be a worthy fellow gets it.

  • I felt, besides, that my only hope of a real reconciliation with him lay through this road; deny him this, and it was clear he would never see me more.

  • I only hope she 'll insist on your accompanying her to town.

  • It was my only hope of saving myself, and I determined to run the risk; but no time was to be lost, as the Indians might look up the stream and discover me.

  • I could feel the flames round me, and hear their crackling sound, so my only hope of safety depended on my horse keeping his legs.

  • I only hope, my friends, that you will gorge yourselves till you are unable to move," I thought.

  • I only hope that my mother won't take it into her head to come too, or I should never have courage to do it.

  • I only hope it won't change and slap us too hard after we get up there in the woods.

  • I only hope it's Rattlesnake Mountain we're headed for!

  • A rank Tory by the name of Plummer lives there, and I only hope we may be given orders to pay him a visit.

  • I only hope I shall come somewhere near squaring matters; but in one case a life was saved, and in this it is only a question of your avoiding imprisonment.

  • Indeed it would, and I only hope he will give us half a chance to catch him.

  • I only hope," Jack had said at starting, "that it is a good omen, and that we will be able to get on the track of the party without too much delay.

  • I only hope none of 'em butt up against the Wireless, that's all," grunted the skipper of the narrow boat.

  • Then I made up my mind that my only hope lay in squeezing myself all the way in.

  • I only hope we can do as much after dinner for that poor old wheel of mine.

  • But now I saw that my only hope, and that a desperate one, lay in flight.

  • I only hope I may meet you again some time when I am off duty, and can give you the thrashing you deserve.

  • You have undertaken a difficult task, and I only hope it may be accomplished," replied the General, thoughtfully.

  • My only hope is to get her to the nearest camp of refugees, and that is still five miles away," said del Concha.

  • I only hope," he said a little gravely, "that your uncle will not expect too much from my coming.

  • I only hope that it will last him all his life.

  • I only hope that he will not come near either of us again.

  • And I only hope he hasn't thought of destroying the papers.

  • My only hope is, that they'll drift past us, an' we'll git further away from them.

  • I only hope to goodness that he'll have the sense to bring them home, and let that wretched raft drift where it likes.

  • I only hope, if I do get run down and killed, they will find out who I am," thought the poor boy.

  • I only hope it will bring plenty of rain and high-water.

  • I only hope I can manage to drop him on top of one of your heads.

  • China's Only Hope: an Appeal by her greatest Viceroy, Chang-Chih-Tung.

  • I only hope we find it unoccupied, that's all," ventured Will.

  • I only hope we don't get lost, and that we strike camp in time for the middle-of-the-day feed.

  • I only hope they've had enough of it, and will fight shy of our camp the rest of the night," ventured Jerry.

  • I am sure Pompey must be fleeing: I only hope he may escape.

  • Moreover I fancy that now decrees of the Senate have been passed, and my only hope is that they will agree with Volcacius' proposal.

  • I only hope, that, as they will see Caesar first, they will think fit to further my case with him, as much as I should have furthered theirs, if I had been able.

  • I only hope that I may find him as easy and good to me as I found Curio.

  • I only hope it does settle it, and that no other fellows will think as Porter and Weston did.

  • My only hope is that he doesn't turn over to the other side.

  • I only hope we--but there of course we're going to win!

  • Full-back Foster was now Dick's only hope, but to his dismay he saw that Hal had been drawn in, and was now hopelessly entangled in the mass of his own and the opposing players.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dark ages; fear and; haired lady; itself sufficient; mediaeval life; only after; only answered; only child; only come; only daughter; only fair; only five; only half; only natural; only party; only remember; only slightly; only that; only thing; only thought; only wait; only wanted; only what; only yesterday; only you; slow degrees