sanguineness

• “sanguineness' that he would be able to approve of the contributions to follow, as 'Amos' gave indications of great freshness of style.”

  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.”

  The Settlement at Port Jackson

• “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.”

  Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook

• “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.”

  Adam Moss Takes Over The New York Times Magazine ��� National Review's Richard Lowry Demotes Peter Brimelow by Mail

• “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.”

  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

• “In mines at a distance from the centre of direction it is almost impossible to check mistakes of this description, caused by the ignorance or over sanguineness of the mine superintendent, and they are often as disastrous as they are indefensible.”

  Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

• “Peter's arm did not recover so soon as Urquhart's sanguineness had predicted.”

  The Lee Shore

• “Katherine smiled at Juke's characteristic sanguineness.”

  Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract

• “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.”

  The Lady Doc

• “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.”

  Two Tokens of National Progress

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