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Sanguine

adjective

Confidently optimistic and cheerful.

Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life. Synonyms: florid, rubicund, ruddy. "Santa's rubicund cheeks" , "A fresh and sanguine complexion"

noun

A blood-red color.

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... showed him where the upright beams were located on the other side of the sheathing. In his own mind he was not as sanguine as his activity might have indicated. It was blind experiment—he could not estimate the obstacles which were ahead of him. But he did understand, well enough, that if they were to escape they must do so ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... three years past had Oakdale been so wrought up, and now that historic and classical event paled into insignificance in the glaring brilliancy of a series of crimes and mysteries of a single night such as not even the most sanguine of Oakdale's thrill ...

— The Oakdale Affair • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... kingdoms. And at every place, without exception throughout the tour, the adventure was more than justified, as a source of artistic gratification alike to himself and to his hearers, no less than as a purely commercial undertaking, the project throughout proving successful far beyond the most sanguine anticipations. Though the strain upon his energies, there can be no doubt of it, was very considerable, the Reader had brought vividly before him in recompense, on Eighty-Seven distinct occasions, the most startling ...

— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent

... apprehend, would lead to still more serious consequences. His imprisonment might prove long and perilous; and it was probable that D'Aulney would take advantage of so good an opportunity to renew his attempt upon the fort. La Tour had drawn his best men from the garrison, in the sanguine hope that he was leading them to victory; and now that defeat and capture had befallen them, those who remained behind were dispirited by the apprehension of an attack, for which they were entirely unprepared. Madame de la Tour again appeared ...

— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... so potently felt for more than a year after it had broken up the Union, and made war upon the Federal Government. Be the event what it may,—and the incidents of the war have taught us not to be too sanguine as to the results of any given movement,—President Lincoln has placed the American nation in a proper attitude with respect to that institution the existence of which had so long been the scandal and the disgrace of a people claiming to be the freest on earth, but whose ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

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