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And, at the first, an utter excitement took me in the heart; so that I could have shouted the name of the Maid aloud in the night, with vain hopings that she should hear me and make an answer.

The Night Land 2007

Why waste his life, then, in dreams and fantasies, in regrets, and hopings, when here lay a glowing, breathing, living reality?

The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris

Little sorrows and hopings, little and rugged rhymes,

Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

Little sorrows and hopings, little and rugged rhymes, 10

By-the-Way 1920

And, at the first, an utter excitement took me in the heart; so that I could have shouted the name of the Maid aloud in the night, with vain hopings that she should hear me and make an answer.

The Night Land: Chapter 10 1912

Play your new part well, and there will be no more neglect, no more loneliness, no more idle regrettings and vain-hopings in the evenings by the Round Tower, but real life and real work and real cares and real joys among real people: solid English life in London, the very centre of the world.

John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

His heart yearned over all these people with their manifold troubles, their little sordid miseries, their strivings and hopings and petty soul-killing cares.

The Doings of Raffles Haw Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

So the stale summer of 1910 wore itself away in recriminations, hopings against probability that the newer types of Liberal statesmen were honest men, keepers of promises, not merely -- as

Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

All the greatest achievements in the world began in longing -- in dreamings and hopings which for a time were nursed in despair, with no light in sight.

Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

So the night passed off, with prayings, hopings, and a little mutteration.

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) Samuel Richardson 1725