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I only hope that my delay may not have rendered the communication too late Such a work as that which you propose to bring out is a desideratum, and cannot fail to be interesting, and increasingly so as years roll on.— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
Photographers will be able to obtain what has long been a desideratum--a large image of the moon; and the sun will doubtless have to reveal a few more secrets concerning his physical constitution, to say nothing of the remote and mysterious nebulć.— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852
The desideratum is an organism with a correspondence of a very exceptional kind.— Natural Law in the Spiritual World
If this desideratum could be accomplished, its beneficial result would go far to assist in rendering us in a measure independent of the potato crop, which, of late years, has proved so uncertain.— A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

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