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1  I wish it could be so easily settled.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
2  Well, as you are resolved to go, I wish you a good journey.
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Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
3  I wish you may receive this in time to come here to-night, but I will not depend on it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
4  I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else it must be in my own way.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  I wish him very happy; and I am so sure of his always doing his duty, that though now he may harbour some regret, in the end he must become so.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
6  I am not wishing him too much good," said Marianne at last with a sigh, "when I wish his secret reflections may be no more unpleasant than my own.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
7  My feelings are at present in a state of dreadful indecision; I wish to acquit you, but certainty on either side will be ease to what I now suffer.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
8  Well, said I, all I can say is, that if this be true, he has used a young lady of my acquaintance abominably ill, and I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
9  He is not a young man with whom one can be intimately acquainted in a short time, but I have seen enough of him to wish him well for his own sake, and as a friend of yours, I wish it still more.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39