The wish child.

Swinging around in it are the wish-feelings generated by the vegetative dynamo.

The wish horse.

What tickles my wish-bone is what I can see for myself on their silly faces, half of 'em trying to look as if they know how it's done and the other half all grins.

Still to new heights his restless wishes tower; Claim leads to claim, and power advances power; Till conquest unresisted ceased to please, And rights submitted left him none to seize.

Wish-tay-yun, whose clear, sonorous voice was the bugle of the party, shouted and whoopedeach one answered with a chorus, and a still more vigorous effort.

[U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle- faddle; absurdity &c 497; vagueness &c (unintelligibility) 519.

Leaders, dreamers, and rebels; an account of the great mass-movements of history and of the wish-dreams that inspired them.

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'The wish father to the thought,' or the statement repeated till it has become believed by the, this is common.

Therefore, if thy aim be still To rule, thy father's wish fulfil; Quickly trace the distant road; Quick invade the chiefs abode; Bind his feet, and bind his hands In a captive's galling bands; Bring him here, that all may know Thou hast quelled the mighty foe.

little marked, how fast they rolled away: Then rose a mansion proud our woods among, And cottage after cottage owned its sway, No joy to see a neighbouring house, or stray Through pastures not his own, the master took; My Father dared his greedy wish gainsay; He loved his old hereditary nook, And ill could I the thought of such sad parting brook.

Meanwhile, what a life he led!his opinions law; his wishes gospel; the cathedral crowded when he preached; churches attended; schools visited; waltzing calumniated; novels concealed; shoulders covered; petticoats lengthenedall to gain his approving eye.

We to ourselves will all our wishes grant; And, nothing coveting, can nothing want.

"The pious wish hath made the offering noble," he said at length, in quiet, measured tones.

to me thou hast proved indeed the worst of step-mothers; endowed me with wishes insatiate, and sunk me in never-ending degradation!"

" Truly thou hast answered right: Now may heaven's attractive grace Towards the source of thy delight Speed along thy quickening pace! "Thank thee for thy generous care: Heaven, that did the wish inspire, Through thy instrumental prayer, Plumes the wings of my desire.

As Clara wrote: "My sole wish isI wish it every morningthat I could sleep two years; could over-sleep all the thousand tears that shall yet flow.

" Should you like to hear what moderate wishes life brings one to at last?

Between Bartholomew Storr's elegies and William Young's "Wish-makers' Town" stretches an infinite chasm.

And all our wishes plough with his fine white heifer.

Similarly, the spring-wort and primrosethe key-flowerrevealed the hidden recesses in mountains where treasures were concealed, and the mystic fern-seed, termed "wish-seed," was supposed in the Tyrol to make known hidden gold; and, according to a Lithuanian form of this superstition, one who secures treasures by this means will be pursued by adders, the guardians of the gold.

Háfiz, if ever in thy head Dwell Union's wish serene, Thou must become the threshold's dust Of men whose sight is keen.

Such is the human mind, and so it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion.

Oh! might I call the bright discoverer mine, The whole fair sex unenvied I'd resign; Give all my happy hours to Delia's charms, She who by writing thus our wishes warms, What worlds of love must circle in her arms?