We'll have no Band-of-hopers amongst us jokers, eh mates?
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis
Yes, it is no longer fitting, that for the future we should have few hopers and many fearers.
"A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858"
S.R. Calthrop
Their hands were clasped, and by the writhing of those hands I knew how they had yearned, and the madness of delight waiting to leap from them-wives, mothers, fathers, children, the patient hopers against hope.
"Another Sheaf"
John Galsworthy