desiderate
Example Sentences
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And over London the desiderate city the sky is so deep a blue that by this alone the traveller may know where he has come, and may end his fortunate journey.
From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
We desiderate means of instruction which involve no interruption of our ordinary habits; nor need we seek it long, for the natural course of things brings it about, while we debate over it.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
Not being an American, the author may use novel words without the fear of being called provincial; so that understandable, evidentiary, desiderate, leisured, and inamoveability stalk at large within his pages.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
