sanguine
Definition: Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
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Sense and Sensibility - By Jane Austen
...Mr. Harris, who attended her every day, still talked boldly of a speedy recovery, and Miss Dashwood wns equally sanguine; but the expectation of the others was by no means so cheerful ....
Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the disturbing influence end in r mentally-accomplished finish; a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish ....
Bleak House - By Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne
...It was difficult, after this, to explain what 1 meant; but I persisted so far as to say, that we all hoped he would check and not confirm Richard in the sanguine views he entertained j ust then . "...
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...As his temper, therefore, was naturally sanguine, he indulged it on this occasion; and his imagination worked up a thousand conceits, to favor and support his expectations of meeting his dear Sophia in the evening ....
The Money-lender - By Catherine Grace F. Gore, Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Mrs Gore
...-- It is amazing in what unsubstantial indications the sanguine find grounds for hope ....
Pride & Prejudice - By Jane Austen
...The sanguine hope of good, however, which the benevolence of her heart suggested, had not yet deserted her; she still expected that it would all end well, and that every morning would bring some letter, either from Lydia or her father, to explain their proceedings, and, perhaps, announce the marriage ....
Gulliver's Travels - By Jonathan Swift, Ernest Bernbaum
...Lord Shaftesbury, in An Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit and The Moralists, had attempted to substitute for the stern ethics of Christianity a sanguine conception of human nature which denied the reality and necessity of sin and evil, and asserted the universal power of the moral " sense " -LRB- instinct -RRB- provided the natural feelings of the heart were freed from the restraint of traditional doctrines ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...Then, that glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage, of so many good minds, arose before him, and he even saw himself in the illusion with some influence to guide this raging Revolution that was running so fearfully wild ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...Catherine ran wild with joy at the idea of welcoming her father back; and indulged most sanguine anticipations of the innumerable excellencies of her `` real " cousin ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...M. Morrel had learned that Dantes had been conducted to prison, and La had gone to all his friends, and the influential persons of the city; but the report was already in circulation that Dantes was arrested as a Bona-partist agent; and as the most sanguine looked upon any attempt of Napoleon to remount the throne as impossible, he met with nothing but refusal, and had returned home in despair ....
Emma - By Jane Austen
...Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed,--much more disappointed, in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober; but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than oiiurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression ....
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - By Jane Austen
...directly, " said she; `` and if they do not object, as I dare say they will not--" General Tilney was not less sanguine, having already waited on her excellent friends in Pulteuey Street, and obtained their sanction of his wishes . "...
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...continued Cora, after a most painful pause, while the conviction forced itself on her mind, that the too sanguine and generous Duncan had been cruelly deceived by the cunning of the savage . "...
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen
...She spoke of her further as somewhat delicate and puny, but was sanguine in the hope of her being materially better for change of air ....
