Every serious soul feels itself to be inwardly divided; it would fain conciliate its most generous aspirations, the two last motives for living and acting that still remain to it.
I would fain believe that their shades are here in sympathy with us today.
I was too much of a friend to call him anything else but fain.
We were then fain to believe that he would do better than any of his predecessors.
We cannot get, as we fain would, civil aviation nationalised.
And the art of war is now such that men be fain to learn anew at every two years end.
I say this as one who would fain agree with him and go with him a considerable way in the work he proposes to undertake.
He said he would fain see the beginning of an upward tendency in house-building.
