Both Uses of
sanguine
in
Hard Times
- I am solely to blame for the thing having come to this — and — and, I cannot say,' he added, rather hard up for a general peroration, 'that I have any sanguine expectation of ever becoming a moral sort of fellow, or that I have any belief in any moral sort of fellow whatever.'†
Chpt 3.2
- He too had encountered no one whom he knew; and was now sanguine with Sleary's assistance, of getting his disgraced son to Liverpool in the night.†
Chpt 3.7 *
Definition:
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(sanguine) confidently optimistic and cheerful