1 He thought the future looked hopeful for them.
2 Lena often said she hoped I would be a travelling man when I grew up.
3 She wanted to know about my friends, and my way of living, and my dearest hopes.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV 4 'Maybe I be the kind of girl you like better; now I come to town,' she suggested hopefully.
5 The door stood open, and a woman and a girl of fourteen ran out and looked up at us hopefully.
6 She pointed toward the north, still standing in front of the cow as if she hoped to conceal it.
7 She was extravagant, of course, but he hoped she wouldn't squander everything, and have nothing left when she was old.
8 All through that first spring and summer I kept hoping that Ambrosch would bring Antonia and Yulka to see our new house.
9 In my ingenuousness I hoped that Sylvester would marry Lena, and thus give all the country girls a better position in the town.
10 The cattle in the corral ate corn almost as fast as the men could shell it for them, and we hoped they would be ready for an early market.
11 There was an atmosphere of endeavour, of expectancy and bright hopefulness about the young college that had lifted its head from the prairie only a few years before.
12 At supper the men ate like vikings, and the chocolate cake, which I had hoped would linger on until tomorrow in a mutilated condition, disappeared on the second round.
13 He meant to shoot himself at six o'clock and would, if he had strength, fire a shot through the window in the hope that passersby might come in and see him 'before life was extinct,' as he wrote.
14 To-day the best that a harassed Black Hawk merchant can hope for is to sell provisions and farm machinery and automobiles to the rich farms where that first crop of stalwart Bohemian and Scandinavian girls are now the mistresses.
15 After I watched Antonia and her mother go over the hill on their miserable horse, carrying our iron pot with them, I turned to grandmother, who had taken up her darning, and said I hoped that snooping old woman wouldn't come to see us any more.