1 Some progress was made in the dry frosty weather that followed, but it was cruel work, and the animals could not feel so hopeful about it as they had felt before.
2 Their father walked on in a hopeful and satisfied frame of mind.
3 She was polite, obliging, cheerful, hopeful; but, the more polite, the more obliging, the more cheerful, the more hopeful, the more exemplary altogether, she; the forlorner Sacrifice and Victim, he.
4 A hopeful auxiliary," said Fitzurse impatiently; "playing the fool in the very moment of utter necessity.
5 He's looking quite blooming and working very hard, and very hopeful.
6 John Thomas says good-night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.
7 Satisfied that the cause was now on a footing the most proper and hopeful, Sir Thomas resolved to abstain from all farther importunity with his niece, and to shew no open interference.
8 Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.
9 The latter part of this speech, was hailed by a boisterous shout from all the hopeful pupils of the merry old gentleman.
10 The reddleman looked hopeful; after these words from her his third attempt seemed promising.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 11 There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.
12 Now, Handel," Herbert replied, in his gay, hopeful way, "it seems to me that in the despondency of the tender passion, we are looking into our gift-horse's mouth with a magnifying-glass.
13 And after I had sent them in, I could not keep away from the places where they were, but felt as if they were more hopeful and less desperate when I was near them.
14 Some hopeful notion of seeing her, busily engaged in her daily duties, before she saw me, had been in my mind and was defeated.
15 She did it gloomily until she came to ten, but when she got into two figures she became more hopeful, and, as the time advanced, even jocular.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON