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Sentences ending with wished

Magor had done what he wished. [11]
There was a way, but I was not sure that all would be as I wished. [11]
I have had too much writing to do, myself, to find all the time for reading and study I could have wished. [6]
Austen Vane he thought the world of, and dwelt upon this subject a little longer than Victoria, under the circumstances, would have wished. [9]
He had not the power to say at that time what he wished. [6]
The weather for the festivals was as perfect as they could have wished. [10]
Annette was firm; the dot was hers, and she would do as she wished. [11]
Pierre--only now realizing the danger to the old count, Nicholas, and Prince Andrew--promised to do as she wished. [2]
Gaston frankly said that he was ready to do as they wished. [11]
Greenock chose to stay, though Dyck said he could go if he wished. [11]

Short sentences using wished

I wished she would speak. [5]
Here we wished to stay. [4]
I have wished they did. [5]
We wished it so. [11]
He wished to serve her. [11]
Pierre wished to prevent this. [11]
He wished to marry her! [9]
I wished for his death! [2]
That was what he wished. [11]
We wished to go aloft. [5]

Sentences containing wished two or more times

He lowered his voice and went on: "I did not ask whether you wished for peace or war--I know that every Persian prefers the labor of war to an inglorious idleness--but I wished to know what answer you would give the Massagetan warriors. [10]
I only wished to say..." (he wanted to repeat a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that evening to get in) "I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight pour le Roi de Prusse! [2]
The word of the Ry of Rys was law; what he wished to be done was done; what he wished to be undone was undone. [11]
He was aware that of late he had been amusing himself with her passion in a way that was not less than cruel, not because he wished to do so, but because he was listless and wished nothing. [8]
It was clear that he wished her to say yes; and what he wished was law. [11]
He had stolen out immediately after supper from neighbours who wished to see him, and had come here by a roundabout way, because he wished to be alone. [11]
He admired, yet he wished to be admired; he was humble, but he wished all people and things to be humble with him. [11]
She wished to have it adjoin the Temple of Isis, her goddess--I proposed the great sanctuary in the Rhakotis quarter, but she objected--she wished to have it close to the palace at Lochias. [10]
Many a man has wished in his heart he could do without his guide; but knowing he could not, has wished he could get some amusement out of him as a remuneration for the affliction of his society. [5]
It was growing dark, and she wished to return home but Rameri wished to follow the procession as it marched through the western valley by torch-light, so that the grave of his grandfather Seti should also be visited. [10]

More example sentences with the word wished in them

Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
I know that your husband--that Mr. March was there; I read his testimony; and I wished to ask him--to ask him--" She stopped and looked distractedly about. [8]
I looked at you, and I wished that I had never seen a woman before and could look at the world as you did then--it was like water from a spring, that look. [11]
But I saw you, and I wished I had never seen a woman before. [11]
I merely wished you to know, Mr. Flint, that there is no use in attempting to deceive me in regard to the true colour of those practices. [9]
I merely wished you to know, as soon as possible, that I did not intend to put my money into it. [9]
Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
Well, just as you say, but I wished to be fair and liberal there's nothing mean about me. [5]
I will cure you because you are the person to whom the infamous wretch most ardently wished the sorest trouble. [10]
All that might yet be lacking to the fitting of the restored palace Hadrian himself wished to select and procure and in this occupation so agreeable to his tastes, Gabinius, the curiosity-dealer, was to lend him a helping hand. [10]
It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
The more Clemens wrote about the river the more he wished to revisit it and take Howells with him. [5]
I wished to write to him, but I am afraid only you would tolerate my writing so much when I have nothing to say. [6]
Mere lukewarm satisfaction would not content her in the case of the Emperor Charles; she wished to arouse his enthusiasm, his rapture. [10]
He wished people would mind their own business. [4]
Therefore if we would live she wished us presently to be gone. [4]
And indeed she would have done so when war was declared and Philip received his new command, but that she had wished the announcement to come from him. [11]
But if you would give me part of it and keep the rest--" "So that you might have something to remind you of me when you wished to laugh at my foolishness? [5]
True to his word, he brought a crucifix and put it up--not where he wished, but, at my request, opposite the door, upon the wall. [11]
At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside, and wished to speak with his father as soon as the latter was at leisure. [9]
It was the word 'Album' that frightened me I thought she wished me to write a sonnet on purpose for it, which I could not do. [14]
It was no wonder Jasper Kimber wished to marry her; and, if he did, the future of the man was sure. [11]
I wished the woman would say something more; the longer she set still the uneasier I was. [5]
He left her without so much as a touch of the hand, because she had wished it. [9]
It was filled with worshippers, and when, in his resolute manner, he told the curator and the officiating priest that he wished to enter the cella, and asked for a ladder to feel the goddess, he was most positively refused. [10]
He differed, however, with that gentleman in politics, while in this respect he agreed with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Botts], whom he wished to oblige whenever it was in his power. [7]
He was tender with her, but he wished often that she could understand him without explanation on his part. [11]
Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking and feeling at that moment. [2]
Ursula started homeward, with Agnes in her arms, and I said I wished I had her privilege of seeing Marget. [5]
I have often wished you would come and tell me more about Cairo and the Pyramids, as you once promised me you would. [5]
And finally I wished to tell you that henceforth I do not mean to aid in any way any enterprise in Grenoble. [9]
He said he wished to tell the haughty citizens, that Darius had thus disfigured him, and that he had come to them for help in revenging himself. [10]
The architect himself wished to take advantage of this time to refresh himself by a short sleep, for the exertions of the morrow, but between this intention and its fulfilment an obstacle was interposed, the preposterous dimensions namely of his guest. [10]
The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
If then he wished to set up business for himself, he must get permission, after passing an examination. [4]
Dion had often wished to set sail with his wife for a great city in Syria or Greece, but fresh and mighty obstacles had deterred him. [10]
You no doubt wished to see the progress of the fire from a spot near it, and in fact the colors down there are magnificent. [10]
Barbara had often wished to see the Netherlands, which the Emperor Charles also remembered with special affection, but no one had ever thus transported her to the midst of these flourishing provinces and this blithesome people. [10]
Why had he wished to see the Egyptian princess again before leaving Babylon? [10]
I could have wished to see more of Liverpool, but I found time only to visit the great exhibition, then open. [6]
I must have wished to see Krebs, to hear him speak; to observe, perhaps, the effect on the audience. [9]
I had often wished to see it in its winter power,--so we walked on. [14]
I have always wished to see it again. [9]
The archduchess also wished to see him. [2]
The anxious wife wished to see Count Frontenac himself and then to find Iberville. [11]
And I also wished to say, Mrs. Merrill, that I have thought about another matter very carefully. [9]
And when she wished to pray, then it seemed as though the demon in her look was mightier than ever. [10]
The Emperor Charles wished to place her in safe quarters up here, while he himself had taken lodgings in the modest house of a Schwaiger--a small farmer who tilled his own garden and land in the valley below. [10]
He then still wished to live and feared death. [2]
I could have wished to leave untold the story of the English mission, an episode in Motley's life full of heart-burnings, and long to be regretted as a passage of American history. [6]
The Emperor Charles wished to know how she liked her new home. [10]
In short, Hodder wished to go into battle side by side with McCrae. [9]
Honora had not wished to go ashore. [9]
But she evidently wished to display herself to the people in all her finery and be admired, for she presently went up on the roof of the deck-house. [10]
The wise abbot wished to avoid anything, that would cause excitement, during this time of rebellion against the power of the Church, but the magistrate claimed the right to commence proceedings against the doctor. [10]
Perhaps he merely wished to assure himself that they were comfortable with us. [10]
Perhaps she only wished to arouse Navarrete to do his best at the trial. [10]
Sometimes she even wished they were all back on the farm. [8]
He said he wished the Trianon to be perfection--nothing less. [5]
And privately I wished the stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of wheat on top of him. [5]
He said he wished the public would make trouble oftener--it would have a good effect. [5]
I could have wished that you both had taken longer to reflect, but I hope with all my heart that you will be happy. [9]
Many times I wished that the charming anecdotes had not stopped with their happy climaxes, but had continued the pleasing history of the several benefactors and beneficiaries. [5]
I even have wished that I, half peasant, had been--" "If only you had been all peasant, this war, this misery of mine, had never been," she interrupted. [11]
He now suddenly wished that brighter light might dispel the gloom which just now he had found so restful; for the lady Euryale's demeanor would show him whether Melissa were still a virtuous maiden. [10]
At times she wished she had rebuked Trixton Brent more forcibly, although he was not an easy person to rebuke; and again she reflected that, had she taken the matter too seriously, she would have laid herself open to his ridicule. [9]
He could have wished secrecy for Delia Gasgoyne, and for his grandfather and grandmother,--he was not wilfully brutal,--but otherwise he had no shame at all; he would stand openly for his right. [11]
How heartily I wished Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke back in Philadelphia! [9]
Never had he wished more ardently that Daphne was back at his side. [10]
He would have wished it," she said softly. [9]
I have sometimes wished I knew the exact site of Thebes, so that I could rise in the audience, and stop that question, at any rate. [4]
Mighty warm times--I wished I hadn't come. [5]
I could have wished I had been driving in Hyde Park, where clowns and boors, with their carts and oxen, do not find admittance. [6]
To all that wished him well, he gave thanks. [5]
And he rather wished he were going back to St. Louis. [9]
We have often wished for a daughter and now we have found one; a pretty creature she is too. [10]
He had never wished evil to any one who did not injure him, but even if he could have averted this sore sorrow from the Emperor Rudolph he would not have stirred a finger. [10]
The advice seemed wise--at least he tried to persuade himself that it was--because it promised honor and fame, but in reality he wished to follow it because it would bring her for whom his soul yearned nearer to him. [10]
I wished the widow knowed about it. [5]
Others there were who were sick of the world and wished "to be well out of it"--as they said to themselves. [11]
And,--don't tell,--but he whispered that he wished the next time I came I wouldn't bring that Hopkins woman! [6]
The adjutant asked whether Napoleon wished the troops to cross it? [2]
It was doubtful whether he wished to be relieved of his embassy or not. [6]
The certainty that when I was no more what I possessed would be divided as I wished was a ray of light in this gloomy time. [10]
Upon one occasion, when he was desperately enamored of a lady whom he wished to marry, he got Irving to write for him a love-letter, containing an offer of his heart and hand. [4]
I called up what looks of candour were possible to me, and told him bluntly that I wished Voban to bear a letter for me to the Seigneur Duvarney's. [11]
Well, if there were something you wished me to be, I could be it. [8]
He wished he were in power for your sake. [11]
I wished they were in Jericho. [5]
Tears of vexation were in her eyes, and the light of her joy at this visit to the capital flickered, and she wished she were back in Coniston. [9]
As the two were going to their room in silence a temple-servant called to Klea, desiring her to go with him to the high-priest, who wished to speak to her. [10]
Life had gone well with him, he wished the same to others. [9]
He comprehended perfectly well that Dryfoos had made him that extraordinary embassy because he wished him to renew his visits, and he easily imagined the means that had brought him to this pass. [8]
I may as well mention that B. F. came to me after breakfast to borrow the pamphlet for "a lady,"--one of the boarders, he said,--looking as if he had a secret he wished to be relieved of. [6]
Before a fatal weakness suddenly attacked him his health had been rather better than before; then his voice failed, and Quijada was compelled to kneel beside his bed that he might understand what he wished to impress upon him. [10]
It is what we have both wished for. [9]
By the time we had done with these matters, which I wished to perdition, some score of applicants was in waiting for me. [9]
The one who was writing and whom Boris addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkonski was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the reception room if he wished to see him. [2]
She wished there was somebody to take her love to Kit. [12]

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