Adjective : a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations. ,a sanguine complexion. From Dictionary.com.
Then we all stopped, and stared at each other, sanguinely. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking of Cows | clusterflock] Reference
A little ceramic dog sanguinely bounced its head in the back window. From Wordnik.com. [WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: July 2005 Archives] Reference
"I think it's too late for you to threaten me," I replied sanguinely. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
The lawyers are going on furiously and sanguinely against the Duchess of. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
I fear I have expressed myself too sanguinely of Dissenting Co-operation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
He had knowingly and sanguinely sacrificed other people's lives to the cause. From Wordnik.com. [The Conscience of Communism] Reference
The narrative of Jollyet made La Salle more sanguinely credulous, that he had the. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
This craven display should awaken anyone who sanguinely assumed that “everything changed” on November 4. From Wordnik.com. [January « 2009 « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
Leichhardt, who, on reaching the gulf, had sanguinely hoped the worst of the journey over, soon found his mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Would white men truly, sanguinely, put up with the routine stops and searches of black officers in their neighborhoods?. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Gates's Arbitrary Arrest: It Happens in New York Too] Reference
In my experience, people accept domination by those who look like them much more sanguinely than they do domination by "others.". From Wordnik.com. [Absolutist thinking and peer pressure] Reference
She had hoped sanguinely, trustingly, and now it seemed that fate would bring her defiant proofs of its iron will in spite of herself. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
I believe it was, for everything went wrong with me that night, instead of my having a surfeit of pleasure, as I had sanguinely expected. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
Who, you've just got to know, is sanguinely dragging her daughter's entire life into the public toilet, to support her own ruthless ambition. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant] Reference
As for the sanguinely viewed "Obama Effect" on the Muslim World, the report laments that US approval dropped following the Israeli-Gaza incursion earlier this year. From Wordnik.com. ["Obama Effect" On Lebanese Election Touted By Some, Doubted By Others] Reference
Enemy which had been so long and so sanguinely entertained. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Lord Nelson] Reference
I dont always very sanguinely look for a Letter on Thursdays. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 January 1795] Reference
"Surely our Lady's troubles be over now!" said Maude sanguinely. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
"And that will be in France, ere long," said Constance, sanguinely. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
Those who augured so sanguinely for its action and effect were disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848] Reference
Paks have to think very sanguinely positive as the future is extremely promising. From Wordnik.com. Reference
With these precautionary rules, it was sanguinely expected that the amateur purity of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919] Reference
No harm would come to her, they sanguinely repeated, if the Queen were left to herself. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference
"Perhaps," Rodney hoped, but not sanguinely, "they'll have to push it all the way to Florence.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lee Shore] Reference
I came from the university with such distinction as led me to look sanguinely on my career in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
I look sanguinely towards the time when she will be worthy of the English constitution, and she will obtain it. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2] Reference
Board proposed to make, he thought that they might reasonably, if not sanguinely, anticipate a more golden future. From Wordnik.com. [Five Tales] Reference
The lawyers are going on furiously and sanguinely against the Duchess of Kingston, (109) who is, they say, at Calais. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn His Letters and His Life]
He did not appear sanguinely to anticipate that he should be in a majority on his pending motion for the repeal of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Visit to the United States in 1841] Reference
She fretted, however, as some women will; and he, to comfort her, wrote more sanguinely about himself than the facts warranted. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain] Reference
It's no good sanguinely saying that we can all just stop complaining, all pull together, shoulders to the wheel, and get in and do this. From Wordnik.com. [7.62mm Justice] Reference
Prussian assistance to Wellington, and sanguinely expecting that Grouchy would either avert that support or reach him in time to neutralise it. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
And she went to the doctor about a bruise that she had from bumping into something and somehow they diagnosed her with cancer, 'he says sanguinely. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
In his blank disappointment he could not bear to re-enter the house he had left so sanguinely a few moments before, but walked moodily in the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference
For, after all, the rudiments of family loyalty might as well be kept, among the general destruction which he, more sanguinely than Gideon, hoped for. From Wordnik.com. [Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract] Reference
I sanguinely hope to cancel this debt in two years of hard work, and cheerfully look forward to the turning of every possible dollar into that channel. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] Reference
Piedmont was to be invited to join as soon as she had renounced her constitutional sins, which it was sanguinely expected she would do before very long. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberation of Italy] Reference
Early on, we joked about it sanguinely with my sister by saying that she was fortunate that my mother waited; otherwise, she would not have been with us!. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Chronicle - Headlines] Reference
I cannot speculate quite so sanguinely as he does: but he is a Frenchman, and has a closer duty relative to those objects, and better means of judging of them, than I can have. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference
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