622 examples of sanguine in sentences

Hopeful, expectant, sanguine, optimistic, confident.

They took great interest in the work and did the work just as well as the average man and made good far beyond the most sanguine expectations.

Like most young persons of a sanguine and imaginative temperament, she lived very much in an ideal future of her own creation....

He could not see in the brutal faces before him one spark of intelligence, one little gleam of independence and self-respect which could be attributed to his endeavor; which the most sanguine construction could take as resulting from his time and money given to a hopeless cause.

To wet the peak's impracticable sides He opens of his feet the sanguine tides, 395 Weak and more weak the issuing current eyes Lapp'd by the panting tongue of thirsty skies.

I have almost ceased to hope; and am sanguine only in the prospects of other (former) years.

The genuine child of impulse, the frigid philosopher of prudencethe phlegm of my cousin's doctrine is invariably at war with his temperament, which is high sanguine.

It does me good, as I walk towards the street of my daily avocation, on some fine May morning, to meet him marching in a quite opposite direction, with a jolly handsome presence, and shining sanguine face, that indicates some purchase in his eyea Claudeor a Hobbimafor much of his enviable leisure is consumed at Christie's, and Phillips'sor where not, to pick up pictures, and such gauds.

By these arts I have known the young and unexperienced kept in suspense; I have seen the cautious and diffident taught to doubt of the plainest truths; and the bold and sanguine persuaded to join in the cry, and hunt down reason, after the example of their leaders.

Your sympathies seem to be only with the murderers, and I am not sanguine enough to suppose that my view of the case will have much influence with you.

He was very green, very sanguine, and engaged to be marrieda secret confided to us later, when acquaintance had ripened into friendship.

Just then Jeff's sanguine complexion turned grey, and his eyes seemed to slip back into his head.

In the autumn of 1868 the Parliament which passed the Reform Act was dissolved, and at the new election for Westminster I was thrown out; not to my surprise, nor, I believe, to that of my principal supporters, though in the few days preceding the election they had become more sanguine than before.

The mere reading of our Author's book will do more good in the way of encouraging the fearful, and banishing nervous anxiety, than a whole conclave of the wisest and most sanguine matrons that society can anywhere bring together.

He was calm and courteous, and seemed sanguine of success.

He is sanguine, combative, go ahead, and would like a good fight if he got fairly into one.

The preacher, who has been about six years in the ministry, and gets 250 pounds a year for his duties here, is a dark-complexioned sharp- featured manslender, serious-looking, energetic, earnest, with a sanguine-bilious temperament.

He has what a phrenological physiologist would call a vitally sanguine constitutionhas a good deal of temper, excitability, and determination in his character.

There are no loud talkers, no scandal-mongers, no sanguine souls who get into a state of incandescence during prayers or sermons here.

"On this discovery I was so sanguine as to consider the enigma solved; for the phrase 'main branch, seventh limb, east side,' could refer only to the position of the skull on the tree, while 'shoot from the left eye of the death's-head' admitted, also, of but one interpretation, in regard to a search for buried treasure.

But monopoly made the old man, as it makes most men, all the more lazy and careless; and there was not a drug on his shelves which could be warranted to work the effect set forth in that sanguine and too trustful book, the Pharmacopoeia, which, like Mr. Pecksniff's England, expects every man to do his duty, and is, accordingly (as the Lancet and Dr. Letheby know too well), grievously disappointed.

The signal success which attended Sir Francis Drake and others, induced them again to sally forth with sanguine hopes of extending the kingdom of their sovereign.

During the night the Russians, having plenty of guns at hand, and labor in abundance, mounted a larger number of guns, and their superiority was so marked that the bombardment was gradually discontinued, and even the most sanguine began to acknowledge that an enormous mistake had been made in not attacking upon our arrival, and that it was impossible to say how long the siege would last.

As the proceedings of the contention were fully and graphically reported in the Woman's Tribune at that time, and as its reports were afterward published in book form, revised and corrected by Miss Anthony, Miss Foster, and myself, I will merely say that our most sanguine expectations as to its success were more than realized.

I hope they neither have imitators nor admirers in England; yet the convention in their debates, the Jacobins, and all the French newspapers, seem so sanguine in their expectation, and so positive in their assertions of an English revolution, that I occasionally, and in spite of myself, feel a vague but serious solicitude, which I should not have supposed the apprehension of any political evil could inspre.

622 examples of  sanguine  in sentences