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 Current Search - wish in Brave New World
1  I almost wish we could stay here.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI
2  I wish it weren't, she added sadly and sighed.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI
3  He wished Bernard would show a little more pride.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV
4  'Because we have no wish to have our throats cut,' he answered.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVI
5  'I wish we could have brought the plane,' said Lenina, looking up resentfully at the blank impending rock-face.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII
6  Watching them, listening to their talk, he found himself sometimes resentfully wishing that he had never brought them together.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XII
7  Bernard hypocritically agreed, wishing, as he spoke the words, that he could have as many girls as Helmholtz did, and with as little trouble.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV
8  He was like a man pursued, but pursued by enemies he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV