wishing well

There is a great difference between wishing well to a cause and supporting it in person.

We expressed ourselves in various ways, but we were all sincere in wishing well for the Gordons.

"Wishing well, however, hath not a body in it;" and our intents of to-day are oft-times marred by the events of to-morrow.

I never blamed her for not wishing well to democracy—how should she?

The philosopher in me tells me it does not matter when the twins fall down the wishing-well.