267 Verbs to Use for the Word prospects

The height commands a prospect to the west.

All the remedy that offered to my thoughts, at that time, was to get up into a thick busby tree, like a fir, but thorny, which grew near me, and where I resolved to sit all night, and consider the next day what death I should die, for as yet I saw no prospect of life.

" "Oh, my dear friend," exclaimed Lucifer, "what an inexpressibly blissful prospect you do open unto me!"

But, knowing that the supply would be both short and stale in winter, they held out prospects of a Canadian Tatler or Spectator, without, however, being rash enough to promise a supply of Addisons and Steeles.

Will it appear that they have enjoyed the same prospect?

"I should have supposed that her place in the mill would pay her more, and offer better prospects.

He made himself master of all Romagna and the duchy of Urbino, and gained the affection of the inhabitantsparticularly the formerby giving them a prospect of the advantages they might hope to enjoy from his government.

We will not ask them to yield us sugar in the spring, while they afford us so fair a prospect in the autumn.

Consequently the Colony of the Brethren presented a fair prospect, both with respect to the settlement itself, and the instruction and conversion of the Heathen.

He liked the prospect, but it certainly carried with it a rather awe-inspiring responsibility.

After this understanding, the three discussed more leisurely the prospect of the fugitives being able to quit the place, when ready, without detection.

He couldn't face the prospect of the man's squeaking again.

The empress Matilda and her husband Geoffrey, unfortunately, were unpopular both in England and Normandy, the English barons especially viewing with disfavor the prospect of a woman occupying the throne.

" "I fear I have injured my prospects there," said Fernando.

She took up her residence at Cannes, having prospects of being useful there.

He had borrowed a great amount of money from her when he bought the island at Mobile; and the rapid coming on of the end of the rebellion destroyed all prospect of the success of his salt works scheme, even before his death, and really rendered him bankrupt.

Let not pride and wantonness of heart ruin the fairer prospects.

He was accompanied to Rome, and attended in his last illness, by Mr. Severn, a young artist of the highest promise, who, I have been informed, 'almost risked his own life, and sacrificed every prospect to unwearied attendance upon his dying friend.'

The next night was Friday, and Betty welcomed the prospect of the second degree necessary to stamp the freshmen as full-fledged members of the Mysterious For.

We cannot have another popular Prime Minister come triumphing back to England with a gross of pink spectaclesthrough which we may survey the prospect of the next great war.

That work has, in all probability, cost me more than I shall ever obtain by it, and indeed I may truly say that to write that work I have thrown to the winds all the obvious worldly prospects of life.

His own wrongs he freely forgave, but he thought that there had been a readiness to secure the interests of a wealthy corporation by blasting the prospects of a humble mechanic, which, for the good of society, ought not to pass unrebuked.

Betty looked out of the window and behold a dismal prospect enough.

The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,no prospect of an end.

One section of the force did regard the prospects with rueful countenances.

267 Verbs to Use for the Word  prospects