My long-cherished wishes were fulfilled, and I was bought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina] Reference

Edgeworth, his heart's long-cherished idol, but she was not alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference

KING perfectly disabused JOHN BULL of the long-cherished idea that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference

He soon had the satisfaction of seeing long-cherished hopes fulfilled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference

'You are travelling to Vienna in fulfilment of your long-cherished wish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

Each of the children spoke out his deepest, perhaps his long-cherished desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference

But circumstances have changed, and long-cherished hopes have been disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

It was an object of the first magnitude to unsettle this long-cherished sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

His long-cherished plans were a wreck; his money was spent for naught; he had no gorilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference

Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joy Luck Club]

On the part of Argyle, long-cherished views on the territories of his neighbour, Maclean of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

Today we reconsecrate our country to long-cherished ideals in a suddenly changed civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

This long-cherished plan, hallowed to him by the approbation of a beloved wife, was well received.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference

Catharine, the queen mother, it would betoken an equally dreaded termination of long-cherished hopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

Then there was silence in Robert Sumner's studio between these two discoverers of his long-cherished secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters] Reference

No knowledge of antiquity, no long-cherished associations, no searching after something to admire, is necessary here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832] Reference

The truth kept pressing upon his mind, and he felt that he might be obliged to relinquish his long-cherished opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

But they were not visible that day; and we were disappointed in our long-cherished hope of seeing a "real live Rebel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference

"Pathfinder," though he clearly saw that he would be a rival for the chair at Washington -- his long-cherished ambition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

The bankability of Beatty, whose long-cherished plan to make a movie about Howard Hughes would be mightily helped by a hit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracymania] Reference

Reason falters at the threshold before the stumbling-block of its long-cherished ignorance whose only legacy has been Fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference

These misgivings were natural, and the result was that congress resolved to neglect this long-cherished scheme of conquest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Today I will wreak my long-cherished vengeance upon him, and I will today gratify (the manes of) Vaka with his blood in plenty!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

The latter evidently had been far otherwise engaged, and, for the first time, she felt her long-cherished resentment melting away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

And as Arthur thus rejoiced in the fulfilment of his long-cherished hope, what will it be to have our one great hope at last realized?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place] Reference

As he played it, he realized the game was good -- so good, in fact, that it forced him to rethink some of his long-cherished theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why a Famous Counterfactual Historian Loves Making History With Games] Reference

Then, indeed, Corsica's long-cherished dreams of national independence — it was her last chance — would have been strangely realised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

To a true student study in itself is a delight -- still more that study which makes the realization of a long-cherished purpose possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference

The price for defending the Army's segregation policy, guard officials discovered, was the surrender of their long-cherished claim of state autonomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

The unexpected catastrophe was a death-blow to her long-cherished plan, but even that faded for the moment before the stern anxiety for Tia Juana's safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

"I am also an envoy extraordinary from my aunt, Miss Wardrop, on a diplomatic mission connected with the burning of a long-cherished but doubtfully valuable lamp shade!".    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference