And I believe that is why you wish to put off our marriage.
He did not wish that she had been less easy to win; he had no fear that she was mistaking a sentimental girlish fancy for love; he did not for a moment apprehend that she would forsake or wrong him.
And you will wish to do what would please me, wouldn't you, dear?
I think you are fully qualified for admission into the Yarra Bend, if you wish for the candid truth.
Fancy a man feeling that he had to keep a promise if he did not wish to do it!
Anything sweeter than this fresh and simple heart, which was satisfied to invest all its wealth in him--anything brighter than the future she had spread before him--he did not want or wish for.
I wish you were going with me--I can't bear to leave you behind.
There will be so many people that one--and he a man--may be easily avoided, if youwish to avoid.
I wish we could follow the trail and find out where they're going!
I wish we knew whether it was Antoine who sat before the fire last night," Thede puzzled.
He thought there would be several of our boys who might notwish to remain, and work under him; and so he brought these new hands along to take their places when they were paid off.
And right now I wish I could manage to pick up a few bites, just to keep away that gnawing feeling inside.
Sometimes I even wish they'd hurry up and do what they're planning," pursued the old stockman, grimly.
Though he was clumsily putting Santa Cruz’s precepts into practice and conniving at plots against Elizabeth, he did not wish for war, nor was he ready.
One could wish that we had some better authority than Dion Cassius, who wrote more than a hundred and fifty years later, and is so confused and rhetorical that we read him with deep distrust.
One could wish that the old ruler, whose character has suffered so much at the hands of detractors, had spared a brave man and two helpless women the cruel humiliation of public exposure as well.
That man's adventures would make as interestin' a book as you'd wishto read.
In the very moment, however, that this idea visited me (the wish being father of the thought) I recognized its folly.
In this particular I was speedily reassured, for the door opened to my touch--and I became conscious of a wish that there might be some means of fastening it from within.
Nor can Henry's constant efforts to prevent the people from becoming disaffected, be reconciled with the wish to excite discontent in two of the most influential and distinguished personages in the realm.
For the honour of the sex, wewish to regard them as having happened only once; whilst we would bury the disgusting details in oblivion.
The King answered in wrath, "You are a traitor; do you wish me to succour the enemies of myself and of my kingdom?
It is very probable that a similar wish might have interposed, had he, and not his brother, been commissioned to conduct the expedition to Guienne.
As such, it was usually conferred upon provincial governors of the first class, and in time also upon barbarian potentates whose vanity the Roman court might wish to flatter.
For it is hardly too much to say that the thought of antagonism to the Empire and the wish to extinguish it never crossed the mind of the barbarians[17].
Such was indeed the wish of many states, and among them of Hanover, representing Great Britain[414].
We have heard tell that you wish to set up another Pope: if you do this, by Almighty God I excommunicate you, so that you may not have power to perform mass or to ordain no one[153].
It was at first my wish to destroy the Roman name, and erect in its place a Gothic empire, taking to myself the place and the powers of Caesar Augustus.
No doubt she did not wish to injure George's prospects.
We had not meant to tell you yet; but you wish us joy, won't you, dear?
As they were walking along Frank began telling Dolly about a second letter he had received from his grandfather; he could never resist the wish to tell her all about himself; even if she did not care to hear, he liked to tell her.
Dolly, blushing up, 'you would not wish me to be ungrateful.
The very last person I should wish to see,' cried Lady Henley, sharply.
All I wish is to do what is right, and to carry out dear George's wishes.
I knows your brother well, Miss, and he know me, and my man too, for as steady a young man and all one could wish to see.
He wishes to be----What do you wish to be, George?
They don't wish for too much counter-attraction in a certain quarter.
The wish of the people was to end ecclesiastical abuses without much regard to doctrine; the wish of the king was to make himself {289} "emperor and pope" in his own dominions.
The more one knows of the truth the less one is inclined to condemnation of others," he wisely observes, and yet, "there is no sect which does not condemn all others and wish to reign alone.
Cautious and choleric, prolix and stubborn, he had a real desire for reform and an earnest wish to avoid {382} quarrels with either of the great powers that menaced him, the emperor and France.
Under Leo X there assembled at Rome a number of men united by the wish to renew their spiritual lives by religious exercises.
As long as they were unmolested the Netherlands forgot their union entirely, and when, under the pressure of Spanish rule, they later remembered and tried to profit by it, they found that the Empire had no wish to revive it.
I wish to impress upon you the political principles I outlined to you briefly two years ago, are the same today as they were then.
It breaks the dishes on your head, It makes you wish that you were dead, It mixes father with the son, It has no end when once begun.
If the name is ever going to do me any good I wish it would hurry up and be a progressive or I will be compelled to think father was impartial and talked mother out of her rightful one-half interest.
And how I wish I could today, Turn back the years the youthful way, And drive the bays and see them go, And blush with youth midst falling snow.
The campaign this year is short; I wish to say for myself that I will not be able to get around much.
She likes them very well, but she says that they are a little too sweet--Do you wish to dine here?
That means that I do not like to speak with you, because you are a liar--Do you wish to know why did not write your brother his exercise?
I wish to enter, in order to speak Musulud unta aco, sa pagsulti sa with the Captain.
I wish to answer my good Bu-ut aco magbalus sa acong mga friends.
When we wish to learn a foreign language it is useful to speak a great deal--Is it as useful to write as to speak?
I am from Aloran, my parents are from Cornago, my eldest brother from Oroquieta, and my younger from Tagbilaran--Do you wish to send one more horse to our friends?
I wish in my turn to dream" and after a short musing, he said: "I have dreamed that you all four deserve to be hanged" which was not sooner spoken than executed before the house.
Do not pretend to be a learned man, because your own wit avails but little--Do you wish to work?
We wish to eat, but we do notwish Bu-ut came cumaon, apan dili came to drink.
He answered, "I wish you would tell me whether I have any parents living, and who my relatives are.
He sees that it is from a kind and benevolent wish to do good to your people, and to procure a benefit for them, and that you do not seek for strength in war or the praise of warriors.
Here she used a charm, common among Indians when they wish to meet with a kind reception.
He must pay no attention to her, but, on meeting her, he must wish himself changed into a male elk.
They are deemed most acceptable to the Manitoes or spirits whose influence and protection they wish to engage or preserve.
I hope never to do so; but I wish to say one thing: Miss Ainslie is a pure and lovely woman.
I do wish to treat with the General," said Desmit, thinking he saw a chance to put in a favorable word.
I don't wish to seem to discourage you, but I am quite certain, myself, that we shall never see Nimbus or Eliab again.
I have written this note to Miss Ainslie, which I wish you to read and then transmit to her.
I am quite well--just as well as ever, and I wish you would let me get up.
Eliab Hill knew this, and for a moment his face flushed as he saw the crowd rush towards him, with the vain wish that he might fight for his life and for his race.
I can understand, too, why they should abuse Mr. Hesden, and the few like him, because they wish to see the colored people have their rights and become capable of exercising them.
I was so foolish as to think, at first, that it was because you did not wish the people where you now live to know that you had ever been a teacher in a colored school.
She almost began to wish the night might be a counterpart of that which had gone before.
But I want to get you to come over and show me how to tuft my comfort that new pattern you learned in Avonlea, and as it had better be done before dark I wish you'd come right away.
Because if you won't, I wish you'd let me die of the smallpox.
But since it was evident Old Lady Lloyd did not wish it to be known, Chris told no one.
But I wish I could smuggle a bit of supper up to him," she mused, sitting down on the lowest step and listening.
And the Old Lady was straightway fired with a consuming wish to give Sylvia a birthday present.
It was the wishof his heart that Felix should be a minister, as he would have wished his own son to be, had one been born to him.
I wish I could drink it, Mrs. Worthley, but it’s so fattening.
I could wish that he talked to me of something besides the weather and the Royal Academy.
I wish you to pack up your things at once and go to Brighton for a week.
Really, you couldn’t wish me to continue eating my heart out for a young man, however charming, who is going to marry somebody else.
I wish sometimes that nice women wouldn’t get themselves up as if they were no better than they should be.
But I wish you’d tell me what your little game is.
But it is eight o'clock now," the man replied, "and you say you wish to start at midnight.
If you have any desire to make that load lighter, carry out the wish I now express to you.
I do not wish to appear discourteous," I said, "but would it not be better for me to take till to-morrow morning to think it over?
What we wish to tell you is," I answered, "that we have decided not to be the means of introducing this terrible scourge into a country that so far is free from it.
Because," I answered, "if it were not for one person's sake I couldwish that that opportunity had been vouchsafed you.
I wish to confess to you," I said, and my voice rang in my ears like a death knell, "that I am the cause of the misery under the weight of which England and Europe is groaning at the present time.
You may be certain of this, dear--if we wish God to bless our love we must act as I propose.
I fear you are not as pleased with my hospitality as I could wish you to be.
I can tell you, I wish I was anywhere but where I am.
Do you mean that you wish me to believe that you, Cyril Forrester, are the cause of the plague which is decimating England in this terrible manner?
I presume you do not wish the engagement to be a long one?
I just wish you could have seen her face light up when she spoke of little Lennie.
Even if they could be nothing more, I wish at least that they need not have given up Nick and Fan!
I wish I could put some of this clean morning air inside your apartments.
Dawn in the mountains--how I wish I could describe it to you!
I wish I could help make it easier," said Peter, very gently.
I wish I could telephone the factory and find out.
I wish we could see 'em closer," suggested Shirley.
But she did not intend to be led into a serious argument with him now and here, nor did she wish to make him like her less on account of her new method of employing her time.
You 've brothers enough already, I suppose, but I wish you 'd adopt another.
I wish you great happiness, Olive--and I believe you 'll get it.
I wish we might," and Peter gave the friendly hand a hearty grip.
But by the grace of God, though I love the poor girl and wish her well, as having gone too far toward the undoing her, yet I will never enquire after or think of her more, my peace being certainly to do right to my wife.
So that I could wish in that respect that she was out of the house, for our peace is broke to all of us while she is here, and so to bed, where my wife mighty unquiet all night, so as my bed is become burdensome to me.
I wish he'd go back to Zululand or the Kalahari Desert and stay there forever!
XIII Then answer'd Lady Kriemhild, "Such friends as wish me well And bear me love, advise me among them here to dwell, Since in the land of Nibelung nor kith nor kin have I.
XXXVI Then said to her King Gunther, "Right noble sister mine, What I wish can never be but with help of thine.
What we have done to Dietrich, or what his wish may be.
LXXI With one accord they promis'd to do as he desir'd; None through pride or envy to thwart his wish aspir'd.
XIX Then would the knights of Etzel their wish have granted straight, And let come out the strangers before the palace gate.
That e'en as you would wish it this matter all might go, And your good friends 'scape harmless from this abhorred strife!
XV Six and thirty maidens and thereto many a dame, Each fair as wish could sigh for, or busy fancy fame, Stepp'd forth to greet the strangers with warriors many a one; Their task by those high ladies with comely grace was done.
Giselher himself said that he was then only five winters old, and slept in his mother's bed; still he did not wish to live alone after the death of his brothers.
Did the reviser of this manuscript wishit to be inferred, that Siegfried, after leaving his wife, went and put on the tarnkappe?
Siegmund, the grave and reverend man; "Ever since my Siegfried you for his comrade wan, My wish had it been always to see you and to know.
There is one thing more I wish I could give them and that is the Christian religion.
To see her regenerated and free was the anxious wish of his heart.
If he then realizes its full worth he will gaze upon the past with keen regret and vainly wish he could live his life over again--a wish that the illustrious Washington said he did not indulge.
I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen are pleased to solace themselves and the House?
Soon after the war-cry was raised on the heights of Lexington he entered the army wish the commission of lieutenant.
All complain of the present administration and hard times and wish they might grow better.
Open and honest at all times and under all circumstances, he apprised his father of his wish to change his occupation.
I only wish to correct the opposite extreme that is gaining rapidly among us, of placing too high a value upon them, making a classical course the grand requisite of prospective usefulness.
Yet I do wish to make you some more substantial acknowledgment than empty words of my indebtedness to you.
I wish to Heaven you may be, for an incorrigible fool!
She thanked him humbly for that and all favors; but she could not afford to buy cows, and she did not wish to be beholden to any one for her living.
I believed it was the frost that had tamed them; and I felt the hatred that was in me, and knew that whatever else was loving, I was full of malice and uncharitableness, nor did I wish to be otherwise.
I wish you could ha' seen his nose, sir--as big as your two fists.
Many parties who wish for a cheap carouse, procure a tasting order, take biscuits with them, and drink of the best of all sorts of wine in the cellars, and in quantities enough to terrify any disciple of Father Mathew.
If you wish only to walk round and see the shipping, and people at work, you can do that without any order.
These, and almost all other conceivable causes of action, are dealt with fully in the pages to which we allude, and all therefore who wish the treat of going to law, are referred to the treatise alluded to.
