1 It has long been my wish to be so.
2 I merely wished to discharge my duty.
3 I wish to hear you state it to me, father.
4 Young lady outside, sir, wishes to see you.
5 Prepared or unprepared, I wish to hear it all from you.
6 I have for some time had a particular wish to speak to you.
7 But he told me to-night that he wished to do so in the morning.
8 No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
9 I wish these fellows had tried to rob me when I was at his time of life.
10 She stopped at the corner, and putting her hand in his, wished him good night.
11 Repeat it, word for word, if you can, because I should wish him to know what I said.
12 And I wish to have his situation, sir, for it will be a rise to me, and will do me good.
13 I think Tom may be gradually falling into trouble, and I wish to stretch out a helping hand to him from the depths of my wicked experience.
14 I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
15 So, I thank you, on both our parts, for the good-will you have shown towards us; and the best wish I can give the unmarried part of the present company, is this: I hope every bachelor may find as good a wife as I have found.
16 Consequently, in the first few weeks of his resumed bachelorhood, he even advanced upon his usual display of bustle, and every day made such a rout in renewing his investigations into the robbery, that the officers who had it in hand almost wished it had never been committed.