desiderate
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The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
Both desiderate a world which is not now, musing with fierce bitterness or cold resignation upon that which was once but is no longer.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
Unity is the common desiderate of philosophic systems of all metaphysical types—neutral, materialistic, idealistic.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
And therefore," he continued, "in the desiderate city, in London, all their camels are pure white.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
Archimedes might desiderate a place to stand on before he could bring his lever into play; I would move the world, self-poised.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
We part at midnight, and Griff next day gets the desiderated appointment.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
He deliberated—the trade price of the Bible he offered me was about tenpence, that I desiderated would cost him half a guinea.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
Truly, your reverence, I dinna ken," replied Mrs. Weymss, beginning to bustle about the apartment in search of the desiderated articles; "but they canna be far aff, surely.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
A slight want of individual character may still be desiderated; it is hardly till Manon Lescaut that we get that, but it was not to be expected.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Time and patience were alike necessary in order to the successful accomplishment of the end desiderated.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
That possibility, I need hardly say, is one that, as the actual world goes, we have ample grounds for desiderating.
From Pragmatism by William James
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Perhaps that which we are desiderating could not be better expressed than by saying that we need a ministry prophetic and apostolic.
From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker
