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• Where this is not desirable, a mask can be cut for the sky portion and used slightly while the foreground is being printed. —  Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
• But it is desirable, as I am informed, and it was so stated by one of the Senators from Maryland, that the operations of this bill should be extended to Maryland. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• While the quieting of titles is deemed very important and desirable, the discrimination made in the bill seems objectionable, as does also the attempt to confer upon the commissioners judicial powers, by which citizens of the United States are to be deprived of their property in a mode contrary to that provision of the Constitution which declares that no person 'shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.' —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• This (always if quite convenient) would be the more desirable, as I must leave this place in a fortnight at farthest,--the more 's the pity,--and, consequently, the risk of blunders will be considerably increased. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• A few moments later I saw Constable Davis emerge and stride away up the road I watched his rapidly diminishing figure until he had gone as far as I considered desirable, and then I set forth in his wake. —  The Eye of Osiris

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