16284 examples of wishes to in sentences

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I need not repeat my wishes to have my little sonnets printed verbatim my last way.

He wishes to kindle the emotions by the suggestion of objects themselves; and for this purpose he must present images of the objects rather than of any single quality.

A man can be that which he wishes to be.

If you think you have humiliated me enough, trampled on me, and are sufficiently avenged, leave me then (to Leon, who wishes to withdraw).

One hardly knows whether to smile or weep, what?" "You consider total abstinence a handicap to a gentleman who wishes to make a proposal of marriage, sir?"

But Zeno did not want to please Antigonus; for no man who is skilled in any art wishes to please one who has no such skill.

He rather wishes to have Wilmot in office.

The purchaser who wishes to discourage sweating should look first to the quality of the goods he buys, rather than to the price.

The famous miraculous picture over the altar is notable rather for its properties than for its intrinsic beauty; it is the panels of the altar, which contain Orcagna's most exquisite work, representing scenes in the life of the Virgin, with emblematical figures interspersed, that one wishes to see.

You can trust Hilliard as a kind of glorified guide, which he wishes to be, I understand, partly out of friendship for my brother (who hoped to show you about), partly because hein common with all of us Californiansis proud of our State, and likes nothing better than bringing its beauty spots to the notice of sympathetic strangers.

An Indian has a term for man and for white; but, when he wishes to express the sense of white man, he employs neither.

Edward had transferred his own wishes to her; he felt certain that he was only meeting her half-way, and that her inclinations were as decided as his own; and he looked for an immediate consent from her, because he himself could think of nothing else.

Other coloured lights indicate that the chief operator wishes to send out a general order and wishes all operators to listen.

If Belgium wishes to keep alive in the minds of her people the recollection of German military barbarism, if she desires to inculcate the coming generations with the horrors and miseries of war, if she would perpetuate the memories of the innocent townspeople who were slaughtered because they were Belgians, then she can effectually do it by preserving the ruins of Aerschot and Louvain, just as the ruins of Pompeii are preserved.

But it was news to most of us that (if his biographer is right) he wished to succeed Antonelli as Secretary of State in 1876, and to transfer the scene of his activities from Westminster to Rome, and that he attributed the Pope's disregard of his wishes to mental decrepitude.

Often, as was the way of it that morning, the wandering houseboat comes along to find only an empty pier; and if she wishes to establish any closer relations with it, she must make all the advances herself.

'My dear madam,' said Lady Annabel, 'your son is unhappy that he should have offended you, and he has asked my kind offices to effect a perfect reconciliation between a child who wishes to be dutiful to a parent who, he feels, has always been so affectionate.

Mr. Paige happened to find among family papers a letter written by General Washington to my grandfather, in which his Excellency said; "'I never mean to possess another slave, it being now among my first wishes to see slavery, in this country, abolished by law.'

"If the king wishes to enter France without delay," said he to Henry VIII.'s ambassador, "I give his Grace leave to pluck out my two-eyes if I am not master of Paris before All Saints.

Le Feu-Follet never shows her lantern until she wishes to lead an enemy into the mire!" Raoul laughed, and pronounced the word "bon" in the emphatic manner peculiar to a Frenchman.

We knew he would do that because Black Rifle is a very cautious man, but his trail proves it to any one who wishes to look.

"She is already here and wishes to see our son.

He who wishes to attract the attention of a people must act publicly and with reference to practical matters; but the ear of a monarch may be reached in private.

She is exceedingly depressed, and says she neither expects nor wishes to survive her lying in.

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