I wish it to be known that I wish them all to leave the company.
Anyone who wishes an aisle seat should see an attendant.
Oh, (I wish) that I'd never been born.
Showing the population what we wish them to be is the best way for them to change. – Justin King, How to Fix the Storylines of Film and Television, Return of Kings, 13 Mey 2018
I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you. – III, i
Now John the butler must be sentTo learn the road that Phyllis went:The groom was wished to saddle Crop;For John must neither light nor stop,But find her, wheresoe'er she fled,And bring her back alive or dead. – Jonathan Swift, Phyllis, or the Progress of Love, 1716
Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away … – Hughes Mearns, 1899
This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for. – John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, 1727
Mr. White took the paw from his pocket and eyed it dubiously. "I don't know what to wish for, and that's a fact," he said slowly. "It seems to me I've got all I want." – W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw, 1901
I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal. – Henry Petroski, Geothermal Energy, 101, 4, American Scientist, July-August 2013
Farewell: yet for the loue I beare my sweet Bianca, if I can by any meanes light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will wish him to her father. – 1
It is my wish that the bequest (should) be given to an almshouse.
make someone's wish come true
Send this message to six beings of your acquaintance, and your greatest wish shall come true! – Mass Effect 2, BioWare, Science Fiction, Redwood City, Electronic Arts, PC, IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!, 865290061, 2010
LESTER: You believe in wishes? I mean, you believe they come true?CHESTER: Nah. I believe in wishes, but I don't believe they come true. Not unless it's a real easy wish, like "I wish I was at a birthday party." But you gotta blow out all the candles, or else the wish don't come true. If one candle stays lit, you don't get your wish. – George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York, Hyperion Books, 1-4013-0821-X, 757869006, 24604921M, pejy 237, 2004
"I suppose all old soldiers are the same," said Mrs White. "The idea of our listening to such nonsense! How could wishes be granted in these days? And if they could, how could two hundred pounds hurt you, father?" / "Might drop on his head from the sky," said the frivolous Herbert. – W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw, 1901
Jacob Poole(1867),William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page78
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