wishes

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Dear John, your wishes are as real to me as the wishes in the Fairy story, that were all fulfilled as soon as spoken.

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  1. noun A desire, longing, or strong inclination for a specific thing.
  2. noun An expression of a desire, longing, or strong inclination; a petition.
  3. noun Something desired or longed for.

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  • "Tell Sso-ngii he can let Sleipnir go any time now, only to try and hold it down to a couple of gees Your wishes are ours." —  Warhorse
  • Génet, clothed in black and a white cravat, and armed with a spoon, was stimulating a spectral flame, and when my assistants expressed a wish to see their glasses filled with punch, he said in his most solemn voice: “Turn round, and your wishes will be accomplished.” My musicians had been spectators of this little scene, so I begged them to join us, and try the virtues of my inexhaustible bowl. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • It would appear that your wishes are at length accomplished , and that every possible circumstance is united, at this moment, in our favour. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • But above all others her wishes are at present fixed on the corner house in Chapel Row, which opens into Prince's Street. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • How do you ensure that your wishes are adhered to?
 

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