desiderate

• “I do not desiderate that pie!' was his way of putting it.”

  Fictionaut: In The Time Of Light

• “Nay, looking at the general state of things at this day, I desiderate for a School of the Church, if an additional School is to be granted to us, a more central position than”

  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

• “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.”

  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

• “But what more comfort could a man desiderate than is given by the Holy Spirit?”

  The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election

• “Evidently, if these two foregoing statements are true, Mr. Froude must join us in thinking that a man whose mind could be warped by external influences from the softest commiseration for the sufferings of his kind, one year, into being the cold-blooded deviser of the readiest method for slaughtering unarmed holiday - makers, the very next year, is not the kind of ruler whom he and we so cordially desiderate.”

  West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

• “Over against the criticism of our day even moderately critical writers offer comments such as Skinner (p. 11): "It is a bold thing to desiderate a treatment more worthy of the theme, or more impressive in effect, than we find the severely chiselled outlines and stately cadences of the first chapter of Genesis.”

  Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

• “And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?”

  Beyond Life

• “Then, too, consider his philanthropy! and deliberate how insufferable would be our case if you and I, and all our fellow parishioners, were to-day hobnobbing with other beasts in the Garden which we pretend to desiderate on Sundays!”

  Jurgen A Comedy of Justice

• “Truth is not hidden from the Friend of God," replied the hasheesh-eater, "I have erred being drunken with the hasheesh, for in the desiderate city, even in London, so thick upon the ways is the white sea-sand with which the city glimmers that no sound comes from the path of the charioteers, but they go softly like a light sea-wind.”

  Tales of Wonder

• “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.”

  Tales of Wonder

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