'sanguineness' that he would be able to approve of the contributions to follow, as 'Amos' gave indications of great freshness of style. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy]
Such relations could contain little besides the sanguineness of hope, and the enumeration of hardships and difficulties, which former accounts had not led us to expect. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference
So elated was he at this unexpected piece of good fortune that, with characteristic sanguineness, he seems to have thought that all his troubles were at an end for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
This seeming overreaction to Ms. Wulf's marital predicament indicates just how seriously Time Inc. executives are taking the ESPN Magazine project, despite their public displays of sanguineness. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Moss Takes Over The New York Times Magazine ��� National Review's Richard Lowry Demotes Peter Brimelow by Mail] Reference
Katherine smiled at Juke's characteristic sanguineness. From Wordnik.com. [Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract] Reference
His poverty and sanguineness of temper might prompt him to use them. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
Peter's arm did not recover so soon as Urquhart's sanguineness had predicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Lee Shore] Reference
'I have very little sanguineness of any sort in my composition,' he said drily. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
'I have very little sanguineness of any sort in my composition,' he said dryly. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
"I can forego them, then, without regret;" said Walter, with the sanguineness of his years. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
There is a sanguineness in men of great intellect which often leads them into follies avoided by the dull. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
As he realized that the die was cast, the sanguineness of his temperament rushed to do battle against apprehension and self-accusing. From Wordnik.com. [Rezánov] Reference
Harry's sanguineness began to give way: the pertinacity with which the young master remained at home threw a damp on their expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Gryll Grange] Reference
The question about the Whigs came comically from the man who had just made the Tories swallow Household Suffrage; and Disraeli's sanguineness was ill-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
The real cost he believed would frighten possible investors and with the peculiar sanguineness of the short-sighted, he thought that it would work out somehow. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Doc] Reference
I shall not keep you longer except to say that such tokens as these should fill our hearts with a fine sanguineness, not with dolorous predictions of dolorous futures. From Wordnik.com. [Two Tokens of National Progress] Reference
One man had died, perhaps half-a-dozen more were invalids, but the rest were strong and hearty: to be sure, we all lacked much of that sanguineness which had animated us hitherto. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51] Reference
Much of this effect is chargeable less on an Epicurean levity of feeling or on party-trammels, than on real sanguineness of disposition, and a certain fineness of professional tact. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
When to natural cheerfulness and sanguineness, are added a consciousness of God's ever present care, and a knowledge of his rich promises, are we likely to be the more sad or the more unhappy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps] Reference
Though his knowledge was infinitely exceeded by that of some able men who paid a particular attention to the subject, he did not come behind them in the sanguineness of his hopes and expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods] Reference
Even in this situation the sanguineness of his disposition did not desert him; for he was found by Mr. Whitbread, on his visit to the spunging-house, confidently calculating on the representation for. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02] Reference
The Tribune said this in a deep and inward voice; and in his raised eye and solemn brow might be seen how much his reverses had deepened his fanaticism, and added even to the sanguineness of his hopes. From Wordnik.com. [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference
Strong as his youthful ambitions had been, burning as his desire for more knowledge, much in his brain had been dormant, and a humorous philosophy, added to the sanguineness of youth and a deep affection for. From Wordnik.com. [The Conqueror] Reference
From great sanguineness of temper, from great quickness and unsuspecting simplicity, he runs on to the public as he does at his own fire-side, and talks about himself, forgetting that he is not always among friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
He showed, too, his usual sanguineness of disposition in speaking of the price that he expected for his Dramatic Works, and of the certainty he felt of being able to arrange all his affairs, if his complaint would but suffer him to leave his bed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02] Reference
I surveyed them with a feeling that they might yet be polished into use; and, excited alike by the stimulus of affection on one side and hatred on the other, my mind worked itself from despondency into doubt, and from doubt into the sanguineness of hope. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
With seamen's sanguineness, we trusted that they would fill up the hollows, and help to smooth over the broken pack; any way, we all knew "a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether," would master more difficulties than as yet had shown themselves in the. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51] Reference
He wrote to Mr. Lewes, 'If you think it would stimulate the author to go on with the other tales, I shall publish' Amos 'at once;' expressing also his 'sanguineness' that he would be able to approve of the contributions to follow, as 'Amos' gave indications of great freshness of style. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference
Then comes the next letter to Sir William Elford, and we read that her dear father, 'relying with a blessed sanguineness on my poor endeavours, has not, I believe, even inquired for a situation, and I do not press the matter, though I anxiously wish it; being willing to give one more trial to the theatre.'. From Wordnik.com. [Our Village] Reference
The separation must be long enough, the dangers numerous enough if he started within the week, but at least he had in a measure accustomed himself to the idea of not seeing Concha again for "the best part of two years," and the sanguineness of his temperament had led him to hope that the time might be reduced to eighteen months. From Wordnik.com. [Rezánov] Reference
The fatallest symptom I see in him is the sanguineness about his recovery, the irritability on the subject of his health, which have taken place of the depression he manifested in summer, while his state gives no reason for the change of mood; on the contrary, his cough, and expectoration are greatly increased, and so, he owns, are his night-perspirations. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
The Aztecs, too, got in on the sanguineness, convinced that offering a victim’s blood ensured fertilization of the Earth. From Wordnik.com. [VAMPIRES: HISTORY AND CRAZE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews] Reference
(portraits, nudes, and cityscapes) that come off as unremittingly unpleasant, like de Kooning drained of sensuality or Soutine sans sanguineness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
My fortune was already ample; and all that I cared to possess of the hereditary estates were the ruins of the old house and the copses of the surrounding park: these Gerald would in all likelihood easily yield to me; and with the natural sanguineness of my temperament, I already planned the reconstruction of the ancient building, and the method of that solitary life in which I resolved that the remainder of my years should be spent. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
The Aztecs, too, got in on the sanguineness, convinced that offering a victim's blood ensured fertilization of the Earth. ". From Wordnik.com. Reference
"It is true that the sanguineness of philanthropists may have carried them too far; it is true (for the experiment has not yet been made) that. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
And you, a treacherous sanguineness. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference
He laughed aloud at the sanguineness of it. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
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