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They wished to emphasize more fundamental issues.

I wished to express my feelings-I wished to lift up my voice and sing.

I wished I could erase that memory, if possible.

As we departed, we hugged and wished each other well.

He said I could try it again if I wished.

The rulers of the new state dearly wished to be rid of their non-Jews.

Politicians from across the political spectrum wished him a speedy recovery.

After you shout an expletive, simply say the tamer word you wished you had said.

"Carmela wished to form a quadrille, but there was one lady wanting.

A young girl who stood behind the counter asked her if she wished to examine the silky leg coverings.

He wished to have them first taught, and proposed to gratify me handsomely if I would teach them.

When Ashley opened the door, Ann stood under her umbrella and wished the astonished woman a merry Christmas.

Broadway tried a brave and novel approach: giving each homeless person hundreds of pounds to be spent as they wished.

Have you ever wished to know why you are still struggling with your same life and why nothing is changed?

How many times had that implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind!

I know I have often wished for a mule or Sherpa or two while wedging yet another "indispensable" item into my suitcase.

The fathers of the Republic, however, were isolationists only in the sense that they wished to shelter their democracy from foreign power.

That is well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you deliver over your daughters to the police.

My accountant wished me well and said not to worry—he’d already deducted his fee and Christmas tip from my estimated taxes.

During every ultrasound, every obstetrician visit, every drip of Pitocin and dropping heartbeat of Fitzsimmons' 36-hour labor and emergency C-section, all I wished was for mother and baby to be OK.

while ranged about and fading away to the remote edges of the screen were antithetical scenes, each scene a picture, and he the onlooker, free to look at will upon what he wished.

MANY years after the end of the war in the Pacific, a former tail-gunner who had been stationed in New Guinea wrote a letter to a veterans' magazine. He wished to share his memories of a voice.

I hated the slippery floor, stinking fish smell, and the deafening holler of the hawkers I just wished Mom would finish her shopping quickly so I could be home for my cartoon shows.

He assured me that the mute gestures of these puppets gave him much satisfaction and told me bluntly that any dancer who wished to perfect his art could learn a lot from them.

I became so uncomfortable with the lack of life in this woman that,much as I wished I felt differently,when the clock chimed 2:30 P.M.,I rushed to say good bye,stood up and pulled the reluctant Beau out.