10 adjectives to describe wishings

And all that time as I went forward, was the aether of the night about me, in tumult with the thoughts and blind wishings of the great millions I had but now left to my back.

So thus they went in threescore companies of five to Sherwood Forest, to take Robin Hood, each constable wishing that he might be the one to find the bold outlaw, or at least one of his band.

If the King grew angry with them because of any idle story that some jealous man might tellsome criminal wishing to postpone his punishmentif the King were to grow angry with them they would open their veins; they would never survive his anger.

As you may have seen two dogs that think to fight, walking slowly round and round each other, neither cur wishing to begin the combat, so those two stout yeomen moved slowly around, each watching for a chance to take the other unaware, and so get in the first blow.

After the customary wishing of health, it stated "that he had acted duly and properly in sparing none of the Leontines, but that the cause of all the mercenary troops was the same, and that Syracuse would never be tranquil while there were any foreign auxiliaries in the city or in the army.

Ocampo, doubtless wishing to emphasize the difference between it and his own metropolis, the Spanish town of Vilcabamba, calls the refuge of Tupac "Vilcabamba the old."

Such were these earnest wishings that but one man had been saved.

This sonnet I have translated into English with such closeness to the original words as I found possible: He who can do not what he wills, should try To will what he can do; for since 'tis vain To will what can't be compassed, to abstain From idle wishing is philosophy.

the poor sinner has forfeited the powers of willing; miserable wishing is all he can command.

If that is so, then I must tell you that such an agreement, based on mutual well-wishing, excludes excessive solemnity.

10 adjectives to describe  wishings