Sentence examples for would wish him from inspiring English sources

"We would wish him a long life," Mr. Sinha said, "and hope that nothing untoward will happen to him".

No one would wish him to be more self-destructive, but it would have made a livelier story.

Perhaps Hutton was never quite the happy warrior whom every boy in pads would wish him to be.

What Flintoff does do, however, is remain as hopelessly likable as ever: only a hard heart would wish him ill.

We would wish him well, and we would be delighted for him to prove us wrong by governing India in a modern, honest and fair way.

More civilly, Evelyn Waugh, when treated to lunch by the young Peregrine Worsthorne on behalf of The Sunday Telegraph, complained that the port was not of a kind which the proprietor's wife would wish him to be offered.

"I would not wish him on anyone," David Jr. said of his father.

I would personally wish him every luck and success – he will be quite a loss to the game".

"I like Roussey very much and wouldn't wish him any harm, but if the post becomes vacant everyone knows the rules of the game," said Perrin.

For the moment, however, he is too easily tempted by erections of other kinds, and, to be fair, one would hardly wish him to spoil the fondness with which he views his characters.

I guess I would wish for him to buy something to fix that foundation and then work on the house.