Use hopes in a sentence
Sentences starting with hopes
- Hopes are entertained of my recovery, however. [5]
Sentences ending with hopes
- I brought them up to succeed me, to inherit my labors and my hopes. [10]
- It isn't fair to him; it gives him hopes. [8]
- The latter desired to ascertain whether the influential warrior who commanded the most important fortress in the country could be persuaded to join a conspiracy formed by Arsinoe against her royal husband, but he seemed to have left Philippus with very faint hopes. [10]
- For the first time he saw her weep, and her winning manner seemed to him equally touching, whether she yielded to anxious distress of mind or to joyous hopes. [10]
- He resumed the thread of his gossip-- "Sir Hugh goeth to the coronation--and with grand hopes. [5]
- Only now and then the thought of the sacrifice which the vehement Philip must make for his younger brother, and of the danger which still threatened Alexander, disturbed the cheerful contentment of her soul, rich as it was in glad hopes. [10]
- The next morning the sun relented, and the wine of his dawn was wine indeed to our flagging hopes. [9]
- I knew that the malicious and unthinking gossip of the town had reached him, and that he had received it in the simple faith of his hopes. [9]
- She had expected the greatest achievements, but his subsequent course seemed to belie these lofty hopes. [10]
- The hammer that struck the bell of his voice was the hammer of memory, and if it was plaintive it also was clear, and it was also vibrant with the silver of lost hopes. [11]
Short sentences using hopes
- There are hopes yet. [11]
- Their hopes commenced to rise. [5]
- His hopes for the future?... [2]
- He still had hopes. [5]
- The idea sustained her hopes. [10]
- These hopes were frustrated. [4]
- But hopes are fleeting. [12]
Sentences containing hopes two or more times
- They were like Prescott's hopes of completing his 'Philip the Second,' or like Macaulay's hopes of finishing his brilliant 'History of England. [6]
- He's ruined my life, broken my hopes, and--" "Broken your hopes! [11]
- Such were his hopes and fears concerning her, and they were mingled inextricably with other hopes and fears which had to do with the great venture of his life. [9]
More example sentences with the word hopes in them
- Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
- No doubt, however, you are, as I am, prepared for critical severity; but I have good hopes that the vessel is sufficiently sound of construction to weather a gale or two, and to make a prosperous voyage for you in the end. [14]
- I will give you a specimen of Hipponax's Poetry: "There are but two days when a wife, Brings pleasure to her husband's life, The wedding-day, when hopes are bright, And the day he buries her out of his sight. [10]
- In low, kind words she spoke of his coming and the renewal of her hopes, coupled with fear also that he might not fit in with his new life, and--she could say it now--do something unbearable. [11]
- Nor had she withheld her approval; she had heartily agreed with his views; and when, half an hour before midnight, he had gone with her to visit his patients, rapturous hopes had sprung once more in his breast. [10]
- With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
- The third, on whom I had set great hopes, was beheaded the day before yesterday without my knowledge; but the pair whom you have condescended to inspect with your own eyes are sufficient. [10]
- All his hopes were wrecked, for this meant that Omar still ruled and that the attempt on the Khaliff's life had failed. [10]
- How many tears were shed over those coffins which contained the earthly remains of many a young life once rich in hopes and glowing with warm enthusiasm, many a quiet heart which had throbbed joyously for man's noblest possession! [10]
- His fairest hopes were destroyed, yet deep grief struggled with glad exaltation. [10]
- Suppose his hopes were blighted--what would happen? [9]
- Each day we went farther afield, and each night trooped merrily in through the gates with hopes of homes and clearings rising in our hearts--until the motionless figure of the young Virginian met our eye. [9]
- So the next weeks passed in a constant alternation of oppressive fears and aspiring hopes, the nights in torturing terrors. [10]
- We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]
- Out of the way, all hopes of compromises that benumbed Washington. [9]
- Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
- Here the dead was raised to his long-cherished hopes, and the lost was found. [5]
- The Prince's heart was beating high with hopes of escape, now. [5]
- He held these vague hopes as all of us nurse our only half-believed illusions. [6]
- It is not up to my hopes, it is not up to the promise of the recommendations, still it is English, and I understand it. [5]
- However, as it turns out, our confidence is abused, our hopes are misplaced. [5]
- The old woman told the whole story of Elsie, of her birth, of her peculiarities of person and disposition, of the passionate fears and hopes with which her father had watched the course of her development. [6]
- My hopes began to rise a little, but they were quickly blighted; for there I met a hog--a long-nosed, bristly fellow, that held up his snout and worked his nostrils at me inquiringly. [5]
- This brought him to remember while alone, that he quietly left behind the hospitality of a father's house, and gladly entered the world, with higher hopes than are often realized. [5]
- But he said to himself, "It is a good sign; I begin to feel strong hopes that he will recover. [6]
- The ball seemed to him a kind of maelstrom in which all his hopes were likely to be wrecked. [4]
- Further, it imparted to him a familiarity with their opinions and hopes and aspirations which enabled him to understand and sympathize with feelings in which he did not always share. [4]
- At first, according to her custom, she had roused the handsome fellow's hopes by fiery glances which she could not restrain. [10]
- The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince Andrew's presence. [2]
- He was sick to death--not with illness alone, but with disappointment and broken hopes and a burden beyond the powers of any one man. [11]
- He had gone to bed in rapturous excitement, full of delicious hopes, and Korinna had at once appeared to him in a dream, so lovely, so kind, and at the same time so subtle a vision, ready to follow him in his thoughts and strivings. [10]
- Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year! [6]
- Langmaid's hopes of this were not high. [9]
- How many hopes this base epistle had destroyed; it seemed as though it had killed the last spark of love in her soul! [10]
- As soon as they were alone together, Prince Vasili announced his hopes and wishes to the old prince. [2]
- One and all, they were allies in a great fight, and the same hopes, ideas, and wishes fired them all. [10]
- And how much they had to say to each other in this first opening of their hearts, how many hopes for the future found utterance in words! [10]
- In his soul there suddenly arose such an unexpected turmoil of youthful thoughts and hopes, contrary to the whole tenor of his life, that unable to explain his condition to himself he lay down and fell asleep at once. [2]
- Ah, have I then seen fifty years, With all their joys and hopes and fears! [11]
- I had hopes then of shouldering the quarrel on to him, for I had near as soon drawn against my own brother as against Comyn. [9]
- The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones. [10]
- The heart of the whole country yearns toward the beleaguered city with intense solicitude, yet with hopes amounting to confidence. [7]
- He mapped out the whole conversation, and even to the manner in which he would represent his own prospects and ambitions and his hopes of happiness. [4]
- But I have the very slenderest hopes of the sword, for a connoisseur would hardly pronounce it genuine. [10]
- Instead of turning the ungrateful rascal out of the house, he, the dunce, had given him hopes of becoming her poor, dazzled, innocent daughter's husband. [10]
- It isn't for the sake of food and wages that I've been waiting about so long in hopes to see you. [12]
- Pollux, safe in the prison at Canopus, cursed his destiny and indulged in vain hopes of the assistance of his friends. [10]
- In memories of the past and hopes of the future, they share as largely as we. [7]
- So, to cut the matter short, I am unwilling to see Barbara again and awaken false hopes in her mind! [10]
- She had touched the limits of the endurable; her sordid little hopes had split into fragments. [11]
- And when for the last time they pitched their tents, metaphorically speaking, it was at the goal of their hopes, their new home. [5]
- Yet she dreaded the great temptation of centring all her thoughts upon this one time, and losing her interest in the smaller hopes and employments of the remaining hours. [14]
- They were at the goal of their hopes at last, but the current was too swift, the water was too cold! [5]
- She carefully studied the different reviews and criticisms that had appeared on "Jane Eyre," in hopes of extracting precepts and advice from which to profit. [14]
- His coat is the color of ashes: and ashes are the symbol of hopes that have perished, of aspirations that came to nought, of loves that are buried. [5]
- He sincerely hopes that your views and your action may so accord with his as to assure all faithful citizens who have been disturbed in their rights of a certain and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution and the laws. [7]
- And he hopes that they will be brave enough to face his misery, if it must come. [11]
- I have Hopes that the Report is at Best a Rumour & you must sit down & write me that it is Sir that my Minde may be set at Rest. [9]
- A line in Susan's letter occurred to her: "Mother hopes to see you soon. [9]
- Search for the supposed father had been continued by Lackland, Hawkins and himself for several years, but Laura was not informed of it till after the death of Hawkins, for fear of raising false hopes in her mind. [5]
- His hopes of success had been but slender; and now the whole thing had settled itself, and Dada's wish that her people should not, for a while, know where to find her was most opportune for his plans. [10]
- After he has stormed and raged till he hopes and imagines he has got us a little scared he wishes to softly whisper in our ears, "If you'll quit I will. [7]
- And what seemed still more terrible to her was that since her father's illness began (perhaps even sooner, when she stayed with him expecting something to happen), all the personal desires and hopes that had been forgotten or sleeping within her had awakened. [2]
- She did not speak any more to Natasha of hopes of saving his life. [2]
- She is too sore now in--the wreck of all her hopes. [4]
- It was all so wonderfully beautiful and his heart filled to overflowing with memories and hopes. [10]
- Though she was so weary, yet she lay down on her couch with fresh hopes, and fell into a dreamless sleep almost against her will, without having touched the poison. [10]
- Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? [7]
- For I had small hopes of defeating my Uncle Grafton. [9]
- We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on. [6]
- In destroying his shrines you ruin his hopes, and with them all the joy of life. [10]
- He hopes we should be in time to get away tomorrow, but I think it would now be better to stay here," said Mademoiselle Bourienne. [2]
- I felt that she regarded me as a man, and she afterwards confessed how great her hopes were at that time, especially as Professor Tzschirner had encouraged her to cherish them. [10]
- Where, in the sharp lineaments of rigid and unsightly death, is the calm beauty of slumber, telling of rest for the waking hours that are past, and gentle hopes and loves for those which are to come? [12]
- Confident in her sense of innocence, she had looked forward calmly to her fate building her hopes on the much lauded justice of the Arab judges. [10]
- In spite of self-control, jail had been to him the degradation of his hopes, the humiliation of his manhood. [11]
- What is the secret of the profound interest which "Darwinism" has excited in the minds and hearts of more persons than dare to confess their doubts and hopes? [6]
- He hopes to search into the plans and works of the architects of fortifications and makers of maps and, by no means least, he is anxious to become thoroughly familiar with the inventions of mechanicians, which have so long aroused his interest. [10]
- An' the Sergeant-Major says to me: 'I have hopes of you, Kilquhanity, when you do be drinkin' loike that. [11]
- Finally, his sufferings remind him often enough of the approach of death, and he hopes by religious exercises to secure his place in the kingdom of heaven. [10]
- If we could reach June, I should have good hopes of her getting through the summer. [14]
- Sometimes his hopes ran high--so high that he would venture to get out his regalia and practise before the looking-glass. [5]
- And meeting him raised my hopes of Cape Breton. [4]
- Heron stood still, pushing his fingers through his thick gray hair, and with a sharp laugh exclaimed: "I came away from her grave full of fresh hopes for better days, and this is how they are fulfilled! [10]
- One thing had purified her motives and her life--the desire to share with Eglington his public duty and private hopes, to be his confidante, his friend, his coadjutor, proud of him, eager for him, determined to help him. [11]
- So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have never been so suddenly dashed as in his fall. [7]
- She wrote to Prince Andrew about the reception of his letter, but comforted him with hopes of reconciling their father to the idea. [2]
- But in her presence something of his old youthfulness came back, some reflection of the ardent hopes of his young manhood. [11]
- Now she is preparing her great move, and hopes to startle him into compliance by a new marvel. [10]
- He knew the possible sacrifice this man was making of all his hopes, of his very life; and his sound Scotch heart appreciated the act to the full. [11]
- O, what a pitiable wreck of high hopes! [5]
- Some reverses, which, perhaps, were unavoidable, suffered by newly levied and inefficient forces, discouraged the loyal and gave new hopes to the insurgents. [7]
- I have a pathetic memory of it all--of our little home, of our hopes for it, of our days of labor and nights of planning to make it complete. [9]
- We have given our god the head of Zeus, and the corn-measure on his head is emblematic of the blessing that the husbandman hopes for. [10]
- Whoever much fears or much hopes for such an event will be alike disappointed. [7]
- Then all at once rose the thought of his future,--of all its possibilities, of the vague hopes which he had cherished of late that his mysterious doom would be lifted from him. [6]
- Was the man on whom the Hebrews' highest hopes were fixed a renegade, forever lost to his people? [10]
- She had landed on the island, sure of favourable predictions, but now her hopes lay as if crushed by hailstones. [10]
- Phanes is now on his way to the Arabians to secure their assistance; in hopes that these sons of the desert may furnish our army with water and guides through their dry and thirsty land. [10]
- Some of that old sanity of the once healthy man was making a last effort for supremacy, breaking in upon illusive hopes and irresponsible deceptions. [11]
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