Most highly specialized physicians thrive upon their "interesting cases" while secretly praying that neither they nor any loved one ever becomes such a case.

If Democrats aren't secretly praying for a slim House minority and the president for a Democratic House, then they are fools.

She said everything I had been secretly praying to hear, and impulsively I hugged Kitty back, kissed her cheek very carefully so as not to spoil that perfect makeup job.

They prayed secretly where they could.

Son and his friends, who were brought up Christian, secretly pray together and pass around forbidden religious icons.

The situation in California seems to be so bad that I'm not sure Gray Davis isn't secretly praying for banishment.

Dina, upon returning to Egypt, asks Magdy to pick her up from the airport which he agrees to do while secretly praying that she doesn't turn out to be too conventionally attractive.

He prayed for help secretly to Hermes, the God of Thieves, when he sacrificed goats to him, and at last he had a plan.

"I'll do my best to explain them to you," Olive offered helpfully, secretly praying to Tymora that she could.

Not to his knowledge, although over the years he had often secretly prayed for something to go wrong between his two old friends, something that might leave the field clear for himself and Beatrice.