He said they would rise up at the first sign of a leader who wished to break their chains.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

A young girl who stood behind the counter asked her if she wished to examine the silky leg coverings.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Clay said he did not want to debate, but wished that the senators would think carefully about his proposals.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Male observers who did not praise the mark simply wished it away so that they did not see it.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

They said they wished to live in peace under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

He wished he had not talked to Beatrice because now he felt under the power of her beauty.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Lee read it slowly. When he finished, Grant asked if the Confederate general wished to propose any changes.

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He explained that he wished to talk with Major Anderson, not to give him orders, but to find out what the situation really was.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

All of the chiefs said they,too, wished to live in peace with the white men.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

I could not bear the bees should come, I wished they'd stay away In those dim countries where they go: What word had they for me?

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Second,he wished to establish the independent treasury, which the Whigs had voted out.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

But he refused to let it force him to do what others wished.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

He shouted to the men inside that he wished to talk.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

But she wished he would not call her by that name.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

They wished to continue the flood of paper money.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

"I Wished on the Moon" is one of them.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

He wished to wait until the next night.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

And he said he is willing to go to the Honduran capital if both sides wished.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

All that's fine. I just wished they had exercised a little more restraint in judging whether that yet merited this kind of an achievement award.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Danielle Lyons, wife of Corporal Corey Lyons,23,said she wished the weekend would never end and they did not have to return to Walter Reed hospital.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Mr.Zuma said the two countries wished to take their relationship to a higher level.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Aliou Sow,12,frowned and said he wished farmers understood the damage many are doing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"As a matter of fairness, the committee concluded, we should offer the prime minister, if he wished to take it up, the opportunity for him, for David Miliband his foreign secretary and Douglas Alexander the development secretary to attend hearings before the general election,".

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