Stroeve went twice a day to the hospital to enquire after his wife, who still declined to see him; and came away at first relieved and 
hopeful because he was told that she seemed to be growing better, and then in despair because, the complication which the doctor had feared having ensued, recovery was impossible.
They were not definite, but they were 
hopeful. It was generally understood that he could call on powerful influences in case of emergency, and that he had done so with success; and that evening, when Mrs.
She was polite, obliging, cheerful, 
hopeful; but, the more polite, the more obliging, the more cheerful, the more 
hopeful, the more exemplary altogether, she; the forlorner Sacrifice and Victim, he.
Such an enterprise would seem almost as 
hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.
Yet I was 
hopeful, and though, as it turned out, he was busily engaged in talking to Thedosei Ivanovitch, I walked up to him from behind, and plucked at his sleeve.
"Read it when you are sad or happy or lonely or discouraged or 
hopeful," he said gravely.
Leslie looked at them--youthful, 
hopeful, happy, typifying all she had missed and must forever miss.
It mattered not that they made him sea-sick--he made no account of this inconvenience; and, whilst his body was writhing under their effects, his spirit bounded with 
hopeful exultation.
Yet even now Tess felt the pulse of 
hopeful like still warm within her; she might be happy in some nook which had no memories.
While I was still hard at work sharpening my faculties and disciplining my energies in this way, an accident befell the doctor, on the possibility of which I had not dared to calculate, even in my most 
hopeful moments.
In thee still liveth also the unrealisedness of my youth; and as life and youth sittest thou here 
hopeful on the yellow ruins of graves.
"If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it a delightful month," said Beth, who took a 
hopeful view of everything, even November.