desideratum

• The object of a Reformatory in Leicester has just been secured at a county meeting Now the desideratum is well-qualified masters and mistresses. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
• 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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