There was an atmosphere of endeavour, of expectancy and bright
hopefulness about the young college that had lifted its head from the prairie only a few years before.
By a judicious use of this Law of Nature, the Polygons and Circles are almost always able to stifle sedition in its very cradle, taking advantage of the irrepressible and boundless
hopefulness of the human mind.
Tulliver who had hastened this catastrophe, entirely through that irrepressible
hopefulness of hers which led her to expect that similar causes may at any time produce different results.
I might not have the
hopefulness to do it for weeks; I might (mistaken or not mistaken) have that
hopefulness to-morrow."
Then a strange reaction took place; he who had just abandoned 5,000,000 endeavored to save the 50,000 francs he had left, and sooner than give them up he resolved to enter again upon a life of privation -- he was deluded by the
hopefulness that is a premonition of madness.
When he halted before the binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed with a certain wild longing, if not
hopefulness. But one morning, turning to pass the doubloon, he seemed to be newly attracted by the strange figures and inscriptions stamped on it, as though now for the first time beginning to interpret for himself in some monomaniac way whatever significance might lurk in them.
With daylight my battered spirits regained something of their accustomed
hopefulness, though I must admit that there was little enough for them to feed upon.
So Fred was gratified with nearly an hour's practice of "Ar hyd y nos," "Ye banks and braes," and other favorite airs from his "Instructor on the Flute;" a wheezy performance, into which he threw much ambition and an irrepressible
hopefulness.
A gleam of
hopefulness shone through the stony misery of the woman's face.
He rather thinks she is disposed to like him, and he has painful doubts (I quite agree with him, as I dare say you do) of the
hopefulness of such a marriage.'
Dinah had never seen Hetty affected in this way before, and, with her usual benignant
hopefulness, she trusted it was the stirring of a divine impulse.
In the wild lust of hand-to-hand combat my old dauntless
hopefulness returned.