For some time the enemy baffled all our efforts to dislodge him from his strong position, and our men began to look wishfully for the flankers, when lo!
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
I looked forward wishfully to the time when I could thus retire; but I saw also that, unless I could leave behind me my earthly-mindedness, my pride, vanity, and every carnal propensity, an outward solitude could afford me no shelter.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin
Some day, thought Grant wishfully, some big-shot would come along and clean out The Pass and then the little honest men would be safe.
"The Wealth of Echindul"
Noel Miller Loomis