desiderate

Example Sentences

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And these schools of the people that extension of the educational franchise which we desiderate would not fail to restore to the people.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

Mind in itself is also intelligible; a pleasure is as intelligible as would be any transmutation of it into the inscrutable essence that people often desiderate.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander

Pray, pray, don't think of answering this; it is merely to correct an unfavourable impression in one whose favourable opinion I much desiderate.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman

We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

We desiderate in all things the sharp decidedness of the verdict of a jury—Guilty or Not Guilty.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison