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Wished in sentence

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There was a third young man on the box who wished to be learned in cattle; and an old one behind, who was familiar with farming.
'"Why," replied the peasant, "the foreign lady that our prince wished to wed, is married to a foreign noble of her own country, and the king proclaims the fact, and a great public festival besides; for now, of course, Prince Bladud will come back and marry the lady his father chose, who they say is as beautiful as the noonday sun.
He said he certainly could have wished to have continued to hold the appointment he had just resigned.
He could have wished to have spared that company the painful and disgusting detail on which he was about to enter, but as the explanation had been demanded of him, he had no alternative but to state, boldly and distinctly, that he had been required to eat cold meat.
Mr. Ben Allen seized the poker, flourished it in a warlike manner above his head, inflicted a savage blow on an imaginary skull, and wound up by saying, in a very expressive manner, that he only wished he could guess; that was all.
'I merely wished you to know, my dear, that I should not have allowed my young friend to see you in this clandestine way, if the situation in which you are placed had left him any alternative; and, lest the impropriety of this step should cause you any uneasiness, my love, it may be a satisfaction to you, to know that I am present.
'He bust out a-cryin', Sir, and said you wos wery gen'rous and thoughtful, and he only wished you could have him innockilated for a gallopin' consumption, for his old friend as had lived here so long wos dead, and he'd noweres to look for another.''Poor fellow, poor fellow!' said Mr. Pickwick.
That's what I wished to say, sir, and I hope I've now made that 'ere gen'l'm'n's mind easy.
At length, when this determination had been announced half a hundred times, the old lady suddenly bridling up and looking very majestic, wished to know what she had done that no respect was to be paid to her years or station, and that she should be obliged to beg and pray, in that way, of her own nephew, whom she remembered about five-and-twenty years before he was born, and whom she had known, personally, when he hadn't a tooth in his head; to say nothing of her presence on the first occasion of his having his hair cut, and assistance at numerous other times and ceremonies during his babyhood, of sufficient importance to found a claim upon his affection, obedience, and sympathies, for ever.
I could have wished my noble friend had been alive to have seen my management of this case.
Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and started for the Temple to see my husband.
"Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would go from here to the Strand."
His knees were what I wished to see.
"Of what?""My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it bears upon the case?""I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were instituted."
James Windibank wished Miss Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not listen to another man.
You said that you wished to see me here to avoid scandal."
Those are the principal points about which I wished to be absolutely clear.
One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them.
"Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who wished to see me upon business.
I understand that it was on a professional matter that you wished to speak to me?'"'Undoubtedly so.
Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it.
He wished us to leave him alone.
Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into parliament, or to see him connected with some of the great men of the day.
Mrs. John Dashwood wished it likewise; but in the mean while, till one of these superior blessings could be attained, it would have quieted her ambition to see him driving a barouche.
To separate Edward and Elinor was as far from being her object as ever; and she wished to show Mrs. John Dashwood, by this pointed invitation to her brother, how totally she disregarded her disapprobation of the match.
The young ladies, as well as their mother, were perfectly satisfied with having two entire strangers of the party, and wished for no more.
To me it would seem only a commercial exchange, in which each wished to be benefited at the expense of the other."
and as she could not even wish him successful, she heartily wished him indifferent.
She only wished that it were less openly shewn; and once or twice did venture to suggest the propriety of some self-command to Marianne.
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