desiderate
Example Sentences
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He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
In fact, I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
Discoverers should bear a little with beginners; and we suggest that, in a second edition, a full table should be given of what we desiderate.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 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
Swinburne's first drafts offer none of the attractions which collectors of autographs commonly desiderate.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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