938 collocations for wish

"Well, I wish you joy of your double wages," he mocked.

His first visitor was the marshal, who wished him all possible success in his new mission, and, if Grevy was pleased to be the President of the Republic, the marshal was even more pleased not to be, and to take up his private life again.

Next morning, wishing my hopeful entertainer good luck, I set out on my shaggy excursion.

They wish him all imaginable happiness and prosperity, of course; and they are honestly interested in his welfare; but it seems unexpectedly callous in him.

Valentine said, "If I had wished a thing, it would have been to have seen him here!"

The old woman wished her good-night and left her, and Babette, after hushing her boy to sleep again, had just sunk wearily into the one chair the room boasted, when she heard a slow, heavy step ascending, and knew the pedlar was coming to bed.

A great crowd had come to the landing to tell her good-by and wish her a safe journey.

I take it, sweet chuck, and here's wishing thee as much good as thou wishest me."

Byron, in wishing Moore from Ravenna a merry Christmas for 1820, proposes that they shall embark together in a newspaper, "with some improvement on the plan of the present scoundrels," "to give the age some new lights on policy, poesy, biography, criticism, morality, theology," &c. Moore absolutely refusing to entertain the idea, Hunt's name was brought forward in connexion with it, during tho visit of Shelley.

Pray don't make me overcome with joy, Jason; and now I wish you a very good morning.

And I saw in his mind the gleam of the thought, which seemed to be the first with all, that I was a fool, and that it was the natural thing to wish me harm, just as in the earth above it was the natural thing, professed at least, to wish well,to say, Good-morning, good-day, by habit and without thought.

An ash leaf is still frequently employed for invoking good luck, and in Cornwall we find the old popular formula still in use: "Even ash, I do thee pluck, Hoping thus to meet good luck; If no good luck I get from thee, I shall wish thee on the tree.

" The offer was gladly accepted, and at length, when the train reached Chatton, the three chums wished their companion good-bye, laughing heartily over their unexpected journey.

We shook hands with our friends, and lay upon our oars while they passed on towards home, wishing them a pleasant voyage, and a safe return.

So usually the best friends of mankind, those who most heartily wish the peace and prosperity of the world and most earnestly to their power strive to promote them, have all the disturbances and disasters happening charged on them by those fiery vixens, who (in pursuance of their base designs, or gratification of their wild passions) really do themselve embroil things, and raise miserable combustions in the world.

As soon as you call off your servant, I shall wish you a very good evening.

No, if you just wish one another good day and good evening.

We have wished many and many a time a chance to look for him, because we might live with him.

He wishes men not to be His slaves, but His children.

As she quieted under its influence, the disappointed listeners, now tip-toeing carefully from the room, heard her murmur in final appeal: "Cannot Adelaide spare one minute fromfrom her company downstairs, to wish me health and kiss me good night?

" "On what point do you wish my advice?" said Mrs. Wilson, kindly, after she had finished reading the letter, "and when do you expect to see your uncle?" "Would you have me accept the offer of my father, dear madam, or am I to remain separated from him for the short residue of his life?" Mrs. Fitzgerald was affected to tears, as she asked this question, and waited her answer, in silent dread of its nature.

Only those Friends that wish you better Fortune than this day promises.

He would know if you are brave and true," murmured the daughter, who wished no ill-will between her two loved ones.

He wishes for himself personally a pure life, yet creates disorder in that more important relationship.

But her simplicity of belief and earnestness of purpose soon changed their thoughts on the subject and when, early in the year 1812, Mr. and Mrs. Newell sailed for Calcutta, many came together to wish them God-speed on their perilous journey.

938 collocations for  wish