Greg wished the Air Corps had continued to camouflage planes.

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

`` I'm mad '', and only wished he had been.

winter came, and with it Mary's baby -- a boy as she had wished.

There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.

Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.

She had a hard time making him understand that it was Farouk she wished to meet.

He rather wished he had never got into the business, and still -- scarcely to be resisted, a nice little profit with not much work involved, easy money

as halfbacks, both came close to playing football at the University of Oklahoma ( `` Sometimes in the minors '', Maris recalls, `` I wished I had gone to Oklahoma '' ).

Jenny wished now that she had had Dr. Dunne, feeling that somehow he wouldn't have allowed the dear baby to turn into triplets.

The day's sun was gathering its strength in gold, and she wished she had brought her parasol, if only to shade Doaty's flowers.

he had in fact said simply that he wished the thing hadn't happened, which was as honest as he could put it.

Angrily Martin wished they had delayed the wedding and gone on a trip -- preferably one that lasted months -- instead of deciding not to postpone the date until he could get away.

Ariovistus had become involved in an invasion of Gaul, which the German wished to settle.

The subsequent Ottoman victories against Russia enabled the Ottoman Empire to advance to Moscow, had the Sultan wished.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

However, Peter had wished his son and heir to dedicate himself to the service of new Russia, and demanded from him unceasing labour in order to maintain Russia's new wealth and power.

The worst that could be brought against him was that he had wished his father's death.

The Soviet scientists had suggested this name be given to element 105 ( which was finally called dubnium ) and the German team wished to recognise both Bohr and the fact that the Dubna team had been the first to propose the cold fusion reaction.

Barnabas wished to take John Mark along, but Paul did not, as he had left them on the former journey ( 15: 37-38 ).

Italy, it has been argued, wished to recreate the Roman empire, though its primary aim at the time seems to have been the denial of access to the Adriatic Sea to another major sea power.

Gnaeus Ahenobarbus seems to have wished to keep quiet ; but Gaius Sosius on 1 January made an elaborate speech in favor of Antony, and would have proposed the confirmation of his act had it not been vetoed by a tribune.

The Chinese had long been a source of aid and apparently wished to maintain contact with Comoros to counterbalance Indian and Soviet ( later Russian ) influence in the Indian Ocean.

The latter course seems to have been seldom adopted ; the ordinary mode of inflicting the punishment was simply this: the censors in their new lists omitted the names of such senators as they wished to exclude, and in reading these new lists in public, quietly omitted the names of those who were no longer to be senators.

Mabel Fierz, who later became his confidante, said " He used to say the one thing he wished in this world was that he'd been attractive to women.

" He also wished that Margaret Dumont could have been present, adding that she was a great straight woman for him and that she never understood any of his jokes.

The province's defences had been rebuilt in the preceding years, and although his health was poor Constantius wished to penetrate into enemy territory.

" Given that there's a gulf of 100, 000, 000 light years, he checks his diary to find out what he had been doing that day, and finds out that it was something he wished to hide.

Although not himself a Pilgrim he had been hired to repair Mayflower while she lay off Southampton, England and decided to journey when she set sail, perhaps with the hope of being prosperous in the New World, or because he wished to follow Priscilla Mullins.

Whereas the other Central Asian republics have sometimes complained of Russian interference, Kyrgyzstan has more often wished for more attention and support from Moscow than it has been able to obtain.

Rather, as we want to reaffirm in conclusion, they provide strong grounds for hope that God will save infants when we have not been able to do for them what we would have wished to do, namely, to baptize them into the faith and life of the Church.

He also joined another revolutionary organisation, The Society for the Study of Wang Fuzhi ( Chuan-shan Hsüeh-she ) which had been founded by a number of Changsha literati who wished to emulate Wang Fuzhi ( 1619 – 1692 ), a philosopher who had become a symbol of Han resistance to Manchu invasion.

We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Saviour, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians by his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals ; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.

Honorius also wished to promote the ongoing struggle against the Moors in Spain, and to that end he bestowed the city of Tarragona, which had been recently captured off the Moors, to Robert d ' Aguiló.

As Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 21 ) indicates the manner in which the Papacy might have been reconciled with the Renaissance had the Reformation never taken place, so Ganganelli exemplifies the type of Pope which the modern world might have learned to accept if the movement towards free thought could, as Voltaire wished, have been confined to the aristocracy of intellect.

Sugar commented that he wished to play a part in the business, saying: “ I turn 60 this year and I have had 40 years of hustling in the business, but now I have to start thinking about my team of loyal staff, many of whom have been with me for many years .”

Charles V wished his son Philip ( afterwards king of Spain ) to succeed him as emperor, but his brother Ferdinand, who had already been designated as the next occupant of the imperial throne, and Maximilian objected to this proposal.

If he wished to make war, let him look to Outremer ; and to this end, Gregory endorsed the sale to Charles of the claims of Maria of Antioch on the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which had been rejected by the Haute Cour there.

Jefferson wrote in dismay at the outcome of the contingent election of 1825 to Congressional caucus nominee William H. Crawford, saying that he had hoped to congratulate Crawford but " events had not been what we had wished.

Since then, the service has been used for people of various religious denominations who wished to be cremated.