What is "well-wisher"

Usage examples of "well-wisher".

James lay in the arms of the nurserymaid and Aunt Elizabeth, who was glad to get off her feet, and the little boys stared in wide-awake astonishment at the glowing lanterns and ignored all their well-wishers, who moved on speedily to the collation table for cider and ham anyway.

She turned around to look at the receding crowd of well-wishers waving them home, and it was then she saw itthe figure moving restively in the shadow of the trees, recognizable by the bend of his body, the agitation of his movements.

Any one I can send the way of your Institution you may be sure I shall do so, and thanking you personally for your kind and successful treatment of my case, I remain ever your well-wisher, ARCHIE RITCHIE, Architect, Mount Forest, Ont.

Sabinus found himself assaulted on all sides by friends he had not seen for months, former colleagues in the Senate, and well-wishers.

Secure in the knowledge that nothing could go wrong, he entered again the great hall of Askelon and was immediately swarmed by doters and well-wishers.

I opened it and found it to be anonymous, but I could see it came from a well-wisher.

There were two hundred well-wishers and freeloaders present, all wearing partial or full false faces of sequined shimmer-cloth that stretched snugly over their features and was somehow unable to conceal (for Guil, at least) the beastiality that lurked on the true ex­pressions that had leered from the tiers of the Great Hall only hours earlier.

He felt walled off from his well-wishers, lonely, seeing the bouquets abandoned to the weather and the wind from the engines, comforted by the gesture, though, and also appalled, thinking how expensive some of those bouquets were, from clericals who didn't make all that lot of money.

Audience members moved toward their seats and the buzzing clouds of aides and well-wishers that had surrounded the two debaters began to disperse.

No act of terrorism, of course, would be paid very well by its well-wishers unless it achieved that crucial phenomenon, media coverage.

Yeager, accompanied by cheering well-wishers from the Met Lab and from Chugwater, made their way to the house where they’d spend their first night as man and wife.

A shower of orange blossoms tossed by cheering well-wishers enveloped them in a fragrant cloud, eliciting a flurry of sneezes and a reproachful glance from her new husband.

After the unnatural interest of our unknown well-wishers, perhaps you would like us to go back for ft.

Yesterday, a score casks of ship's biscuit had been donated by a well-wisher who insisted on remaining anonymous.

By the time she could talk again, she found she was in the presence of distinguished well-wishers: Ugant, Wam, Glig, Airm, Hyge.