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Take decisive actions, rather than detaching completely from problems and stresses and wishing they would just go away
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There are probably two dozen women in the town of Sinbara right now staring out the dingy window at their breakfast table and wishing there was someone there to share the view, or wishing they had a view in the sunshine at all
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He had to go find her, well maybe not today, but instead of just wishing she was here
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He had been asking me this for years, wishing it, willing it
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I lay there in my own ordure, alone in the dark in a stripped bare room, wishing for death to take me
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After he eats, he sits on the bed wishing he still had the book his father gave him
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’ I said, wishing I had more information and feeling helpless
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I sit there until lunchtime, wishing I’d something to read and having no choice but to allow my mind to freewheel over the events of the past few days … reliving all the conversations I have had with both of my companions … thinking about Joris
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I am not used to writing by hand but there are no computers here on Errd and, for the first time since I came across, I find myself wishing for something of Earth
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’ I assured him, wishing that I was feeling as confident as I hope I sound
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Smiling the warrior raced down the hallway after wishing her ‘good hunting’
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She beseeched the heavens, wishing that she might wake
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You know it was funny, although she was clearly wishing the earth would open up and swallow her, she was smiling and her eyes were like stars
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Anyone wishing to be a member should instead ask their self what they
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I wake up and stare at the ceiling of my bedroom at the flat feeling lousy and wishing I were dead … for the millionth time I go over in my head the events of last night … everything had been going so well … where had that blazing row materialised from? I grope under my pillow for tissues as I remember how, in a furious temper, I had screamed at Dave that I wasn’t going to stay another minute in his house … and he yelled back that, in that case, I had better bugger off
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“You told me I wasn’t very nice, wishing to keep warm this winter
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Does that help?” asked his guest, sincerely wishing to assist
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For a moment, he cursed Kev … wishing he’d had the guts to take Kev up on his offer when he suggested Andy should go with him
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every time, wishing that I could kick him in the balls underneath the table
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Lawrence Spelman took advantage of their shared quarters to discuss with Harry certain things he had been wishing to impart
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Now he stood behind his employer wishing there
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Johnny looked down at the ground and shook his head, wishing himself
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I would look at the clock wishing for night to
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"You got it" she shot back, wishing she hadn’t started the conversation
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Obviously, wishing to speak to her, but he patiently waited until Alex finished telling her his plans
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beggar, part of her almost wishing that she had never left
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"Where's Mike?" She asked, not wishing to pursue the other subject
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He sat there for a second, maybe wishing the computer would chime the
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orders for him, maybe wishing the Voice would call him in and have another
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“I host Bridge club this month, and was wishing to decorate the house for
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All the Bautista's are wishing you happiness with Jeff
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However, if she was going to go there, she knew she’d better be ready for a lecture, but what other choice did she have? She pulled the keys out and headed for his office, half wishing he wouldn't be there and she could just barrow the bar's phone
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Wishing I would have
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Is a wishing star,
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Wishing upon this star
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wishing that he’d never set foot outside of Troyes
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suddenly wishing he hadn't sided so readily with the
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not wishing to oppose it, supported – even encouraged –
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As for Marx, he was a shifter Jew wishing to be a
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Wishing for more wishes or love is taboo:
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I was wishing my friends, clad smartly in
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as wishing on stars and the machines that can fly toward
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morning - wishing he could take his place
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I sighed, wishing that were the truth
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“How old is your brother?” she asked, wishing he would start removing his clothes
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Wishing there was somewhere to sit down, Chris waited for the panel to be ready
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He idly flipped open his briefcase and looked at the contents, wishing he had brought something to eat with him
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He held onto Evans for a few seconds, wishing he could remove her grief
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Not wishing to frighten him, she placed her face near his and said
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Deanna felt her stomach and throat constricting, wishing she’d drunk more of that water
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I bowed my head, wishing I could let Him go without feeling as if my very soul was shrinking
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James, quiet? James, sitting still? James, wishing to become a minister of the Gospel?
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wishing they could be frozen in time and enjoyed forever
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He held it, trying to make it invisible and wishing he could make himself invisible, too
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position and followed him, not wishing to be left behind in the darkness
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” We then took the girls into our arms and kissed them wishing them a good evening as they told us not to come back to drunk and then we left them chattering away like women do in the front parlour
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Nonetheless, I kept my mouth shut, not wishing to fuel the
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I shut the door, dried off, and went to read my book again, wishing she’d snuck in when the door was open all those times and that someone would announce out of the blue, “I found her!” But no, the cat was lost, outside in the cold rain, a victim of the dark and her own wanton wanderings
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I was wishing I had a third hand to respond to the pure white cat below my hips, when a pleasant young volunteer approached
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I thanked them and then waited for the artillery strafe to pass over the top of us as it did I slipped over the lip of the crater the last thing I heard was Mickey and Fred wishing me good luck and god speed
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And now he was at the heart of it all, knowing more than he’d ever wanted to and wishing that he’d been more relaxed in his prior life
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Wishing that he’d relished his freedom and enjoyed his time
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By now he was probably wishing he hadn’t said anything
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She clutched his wrists, the logical side of her brain preparing to remove his hands from her face, the emotional side wishing he would repeat the kiss
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He looked at the cat with regret and shame, wishing he could turn back time and treat it with more respect
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Raven felt a surge of guilt, wishing he had died instead of Khan
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“Because wishing for death is an insult to those who have it forced upon them
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Raven glowered at her, wishing he had an argument to keep her quiet
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“But isn’t that contradicting everything you said to me about wishing for death being an insult to others?”
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She stared back into his dark eyes, so full of depth and integrity, wishing he would hold her, needing some form of contact
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She stared at him with pity, wishing he knew what he was doing wrong
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She bowed to the admiring crowds and lifted her eyes to the upper levels, searching every face, as she had done at every performance for the past four years, hoping, wishing, that today might be the day that he would come for her
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Alf, not wishing to have to fish under Dob’s rear end and risk inadvertently grabbing Dob’s pucker as he inevitably would, had resorted to trying to haul him off the keys instead
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I was wishing it were Monday, so that I
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I was wishing for Soot to come back, I wanted to put him in Hal’s room and
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Not wishing another smack in the face from his colleague, Ramrod said nothing, but proceeded to walk in a circle around the area Ironbristles had pointed out
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Even though she had told him to go, she found herself wishing he had stayed
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wishing as hard as ever she could wish, she heard a Tiny Voice say,
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"Wishing Well," the people called it, for they believed that if any one standing there
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Toinette did not; she was wishing that she did, as she
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” Amaranthe glared at Maldynado and Isabel, wishing neither had conspired to wake her
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Walking to the bathroom he stepped into the bath, pulling the shower curtain closed behind him, wishing he had enough spare cash to have a separate shower put in, rather than the over-bath one he had to make do with
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Finished, Alex stood silently for a moment, wishing with all his heart that Karen had been at his side for the launch
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Dawn watched them, wishing that her dad was here to give her a cuddle too, but that was something he rarely did
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His shoulder felt numb and he was having difficulty moving his right arm, but he kicked out with his flippers, keeping his head above the waves, slowly fighting his way towards shore, wishing he’d used his air-tank, instead of just a face mask
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Amaranthe stared at the floor, almost wishing she hadn’t asked
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Dawn stared at him with hate-filled eyes, wishing she had the shotgun in her hands
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He closed his eyes, wishing the naughty kookaburras would simply disappear
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Pirate had his eyes set on the driveway, wishing the ute would come around the corner now
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Christmas toys of some other children whom she knew, never once wishing
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She closed her eyes, wishing that time would stop, that the horror of events could be rewound and undone
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“Reese …” she cried, pressing his hand tightly to her face, to her lips, wishing she could climb through the narrow opening to wrap herself in his arms
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I stood alone surrounded by strangers, staring at the boarding gates, wishing he would walk back through them
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She simply would say little about the punishment itself, wishing rather to block it out of her mind and put it behind her
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wishing and start doing
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When he failed to accomplish that, he groaned softly, cracked open his eyes and slowly looked about, for a moment, wishing that he hadn't
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Belatedly wishing that he had stayed with Brightness in the safety of her sett instead of chasing his wild dreams, the young badger felt himself plummet into the depths of a deep despondency
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Frank looked down at the river, wishing with ever atom of his being that he knew the answer to that particular question