With its crowds that started for wished-for goals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference

Warmen the wood-ship, on its wished-for adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference

And the long wished-for rains would bring forth joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lyrics] Reference

The wished-for opportunity at length presented itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

In a few minutes the much wished-for shore was reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference

In the Bay of Biscay O! At length the wished-for morrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Ballads] Reference

Unfortunately we failed to find the wished-for positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Shadow of Death] Reference

The first name she heard mentioned was the wished-for one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

Several days elapsed without affording them their wished-for pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference

Upon reaching bottom, turn suddenly and before you will stand your wished-for one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games For All Occasions] Reference

If you refuse my proffered kindness never look to enjoy your wished-for happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference

After Juan had been carried to the wished-for land, the eagle returned to its master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

Before that wished-for end was reached, Fritz was terribly heart-sick about Madaleine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

These intimations of it may perhaps aid recollection, and lead to the wished-for disclosure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850] Reference

If so, who can tell the fierceness of the fire that burns between me and my wished-for rest?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England] Reference

One of the most prominent and eagerly wished-for occurrences in camp, is the arrival of the mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

At length the wished-for moment of departure came, which was to enable us to accomplish our designs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829] Reference

Further patience will be necessary, the ivy leaf tells us, as the wished-for letter is still far away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

When the long wished-for dawn at last broke on us, instead of alleviating, it rather added to, our distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829] Reference

A convulsion of laughter ensued, and it was some minutes before the wished-for silence could be again restored.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

And very often, Arethusa had also discovered, questioning delayed the wished-for loosening of Miss Eliza's tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

And the young woman, radiant, carried off the howling brat, as one carries away a wished-for knick-knack from a shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

He then turned to the letters on the table, which he had before cast aside, finding the wished-for one was not among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference

It was insignificant in itself, but it purchased for my Sebastian his long wished-for treasure -- the horse and water-cart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

The North was accused by the Southern wolf of troubling the stream, though its course was directly toward the wished-for victim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The leader of the band then put a pistol to her breast, and threatened to shoot her if she did not make the wished-for disclosure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Things which you desire are developing in the wished-for direction; the arch is a sign of hope; your ambition may be gratified in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

"Yes, here we are!" rose in almost a shout of triumph from both, as, on rounding the point, the wished-for harbour appeared in view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

Cortlandt served with fidelity for eighteen years without getting the long wished-for promotion; Morgan Lewis jumped over Jeremiah Van.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

The "loosened limbs o'er all the wished-for bed," strikes me as rather of the ludicrous, and not unlike the description of himself by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

She was leaning forward from among the crowd; her eye hurried over the ship as it neared the shore, to catch some wished-for countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference

In retrospect it is clear that more was requisite for the realisation of the vision of the wished-for nation, than imperial investiture of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

The term of nine months would have elapsed in three days, and all the preparations suitable to this so much wished-for union were finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Messianic age include as the brightest feature of that wished-for time the prediction that then "the nations shall not learn war any more.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

Fortune, that was for a long time unkind, at last, however, seemed to smile upon his distress, and indulged him with the wished-for vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

In vain they waited for the wished-for boat: no answer was returned to their signals of distress -- no pity shown for their perilous state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference

Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference