Emily was the only person about him who was naturally and ardently hopeful, but she scarcely ever left the child.

She waxed more daringly hopeful when Clem came to refill the punch-bowl.

Doesn't that give you courage to face the evening?" murmured Josephine, and the expression on Janet's face became decidedly more hopeful.

The room in which Rubens was born had been reverently preserved in all its original comfort by his family, and this apartment became the private chamber of the Queen; who, for a time, sanguine as to the result of the painter's mission, and rendered doubly hopeful by the constant reports which reached her of the rapidly-declining health of Richelieu, supported her new misfortunes with courage.

Likewise it took on an added interest when we learned that the blue-eyed youth and his brother of a twin balloon-cannon at the front of Laon had during the preceding three weeks brought down four of the enemy's airmen, and were exceedingly hopeful of fattening their joint average before the present week had ended.

" "Who are the elect?" demanded Samuel, faintly hopeful.

The problem becomes at once graver, less hopeful, and more urgent when we take up the case of Russian.

Day is increasingly hopeful about the motors.

Their anguish for the fate of their English relations was sincere, and they were intensely hopeful that Britain would accept any sort of terms of peace in order to prevent the invasion which some people in Germany still believe possible.

Europe is almost exhausted, the ultima Thule of arable territory in America has been reached, Asia barely supports her own immense population; nothing is left but Africa, and she presents a merely hopeful prospect for the future.

Democracy works by the slower, but more permanently hopeful path of education, never sacrificing life to material ends.

Then she said hurriedly: "I shall have great faith in Mrs. Jenkin's judgment after this, although I have wondered how she could be so persistently hopeful in the face of such evidence as we had.

"You have done your duty in warning me, and you are so plainly hopeful that I shall incriminate myself that it would be cruel to disappoint you.

He remains unselfish, self-reliant and splendidly hopeful to the end, believing in God's mercy to you. TO SIR J. M. BARRIE MY DEAR BARRIE, We are pegging out in a very comfortless spot.