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Sentences starting with desire

Desire was incandescent within her breast. [9]
Desire that woman to conduct us to the Roman lord who dwells here. [10]
Desire was power. [9]
Desire for what? [9]

Sentences ending with desire

What is it you desire? [9]
What more do you desire? [10]
Thus she was wont, at the most unexpected moments, to betray the passion within her, the passion that made him sick with desire. [9]
They do not wish--what you and I desire. [9]
His greenish eyes were wide open in the fulness of eloquence and desire. [11]
I suppose that we all who are thoroughly interested in this world have this desire. [4]
The hygienic department was to be all that modern science could desire. [9]
Who was there to stand between him and his desire? [11]
It suits him to go to Fort Desire. [11]
My numbness began to be penetrated by shooting pains, and I grasped little by little the fulness of my calamity, until I was in the state of wild rebellion of one whom life for the first time has foiled in a supreme desire. [9]

Short sentences using desire

I have no other desire. [5]
My desire was fulfilled. [10]
Was it his desire? [11]
He has his desire. [5]
This I would desire also. [7]
Fulfillment of Desire. [5]
I desire forgiveness. [11]

Sentences containing desire two or more times

I would desire you to give my particular respects to Fanny; but perhaps you will not wish her to know you have received this, lest she should desire to see it. [7]
He had a vehement desire to be left in peace, and to avoid politics and political discussions forever--vain desire for the storekeeper of Coniston. [9]
I shan't waste the time--I haven't the slightest desire to loaf, but a consuming desire to work, ever since I got back my swing. [5]
I think that the Dr. Tanners and those others who go forty days without eating do it by resolutely keeping out the desire to eat, in the beginning, and that after a few hours the desire is discouraged and comes no more. [5]
If love was synonymous with unselfishness, with the desire to give greater than the desire to get, then he had never known love. [11]
And when I say that I desire to see the further spread of it arrested, I only say I desire to see that done which the fathers have first done. [7]
The same love of others, a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.--So I lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. [2]
And it was not for him--nothing of this; not even the thought of it; for to think of it was to desire it, and to desire it was to reach out towards it; and to reach out towards it was the end of all. [11]
In five days I drove out the desire to smoke and was not obliged to keep watch after that; and I never experienced any strong desire to smoke again. [5]
When I say I desire to see it placed where the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, I only say I desire to see it placed where they placed it. [7]

More example sentences with the word desire in them

Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
The success of your army and the cause of the country are the same, and, of course, I only desire the good of the cause. [7]
To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
Never, I assure you, have I had less desire for finery. [9]
What further do you desire to say to me? [5]
And you--forgive, if you desire to be forgiven that guilt, which you bear as an inheritance from your fathers, and for your own sins. [10]
As now, sir, you desire it, I will be a little more particular. [7]
The gorgeous flower you desire I can no longer give you--or any one. [10]
Jackson will bring you anything you desire, and should you wish to drive, I shall be delighted to show you the country. [9]
He had not yet come to a desire to share his secret with any confidant, but preferred to be much alone and muse on it, creating a world which was without evil, without doubt, undisturbed by criticism. [4]
How she had yearned and pined until the most fervent desire of her heart was fulfilled! [10]
For a whole year he was haunted with a desire to disfigure a certain young woman, so that no one would marry her. [5]
She dared not write, but she cherished a desire long denied. [11]
To such I would say: You desire peace, and you blame me that we do not have it. [7]
What--what you desire would not mend your life, but break it utterly. [9]
I repeat, I would like for Col. Bayles to raise a regiment of cavalry whenever the Union men of Kentucky desire or consent to it. [7]
The desire which would lead each and every one to the gates of the Inner World which was limitless and eternal, filled with dazzling light . [9]
What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]
As the afternoon wore, desire to see these toilers once more took possession of her. [9]
In brief, earnest words he confessed his love for her, and his desire to make her his own, as the pride and ornament of his house. [10]
You are the woman I want, and I think I may say without boasting that I can give you what you desire in life--after a while. [9]
To-day the good woman could not quite make up her mind whether it would be wiser to warn Dada against Marcus and desire her to repel any advances he might attempt to make, or to let bygones be bygones. [10]
Face to face with the man who had tempted him to crime, Lygon had a new sense of boldness, a sudden feeling of reprisal, a rushing desire to put the screw upon him. [11]
His face flushed with sudden desire to laugh, then it paled in dumb astonishment. [11]
Suddenly, in conflict with her desire to remain indefinitely talking with this strange man, Janet felt an intense impulse to leave. [9]
She now listened with eager interest, sometimes completing Hermon's acknowledgments by an explanatory or propitiating word, as the leeches subjected him to a rigid examination, but the latter felt that his statements were not to serve curiosity, but an honest desire to aid him. [10]
That," he said, with delicate meaning, "that is another quality I should desire in a woman. [9]
Like every other wish of her son, Barbara had fulfilled with quiet indulgence his desire that she would not again enter the Netherlands and Ghent. [10]
Ned Blakely--that name will answer as well as any other fictitious one (for he was still with the living at last accounts, and may not desire to be famous)--sailed ships out of the harbor of San Francisco for many years. [5]
No one knew who started it, but it probably was Billy Bagshot, who had had more than a double portion of drink, and was seized with a desire to celebrate his thanks to Connor thus. [11]
Once in a while, when he saw Comyn at Almack's, he would desire to be remembered to me, and he always spoke of me with affection. [9]
In a little while this plain lady was not plain any more, but most gorgeously dressed, and possessed with the desire to be in the height of the fashion. [4]
And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
Yes, the desire which goes forth hungering after righteousness is blessed of our Father, and it does not return unto us void. [5]
In the hour when he had ceased to desire exit by breaking through the wall and not by the predestined door, the reply of Destiny to him had been: "It is not for you to choose. [11]
The lad's cheeks were glowing with shame and anger, for the clerk of the muster-rolls and paymaster had laughed in his face, when he expressed his desire to become a Lansquenet. [10]
It might be well to consider, too, whether the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far as individuals may desire, be included in such colonization. [7]
Thus, Quedlinburg was well suited to arouse poetic feelings in young hearts, steep the soul with love for the beautiful, time-honoured region, and yet fill it with the desire to make distant lands its own. [10]
Some of them, we know, already desire peace and reunion. [7]
Prayer means that we desire to, and will, walk in the light so far as we receive it, even though with bleeding footsteps, and waiting patiently on the Lord, will leave our real desires to be rewarded by Him. [5]
Therefore, much as we could desire your more than human wisdom in our deliberations, we cannot lawfully avail ourselves of it. [5]
While on the way she reflected, for the first time, what John could desire of her for the "weal and woe of his life. [10]
If my mind was tuned to shun thee, I gave proof that it was willing to take thee at thine own worth, even against the will of my father, against the desire of David, who knew thee better than I--he gauged thee at first glance. [11]
His highest desire was to win esteem, and he often did so. [10]
Her one desire was to see and hear nothing. [10]
His one desire was to know what was happening and at any cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been censured, should not be held to blame. [2]
Yet how mistaken was the view to which maternal love and the desire of her heart had led her artist nature! [10]
To her he was the man, not the Emperor, and that he did not express a desire to hear her again seemed like an insult which the man offered to the woman, the artist, who was ready to obey his sign. [10]
Strangely enough, Stephen was seized with a desire to vindicate the Colonel's courage. [9]
Besides, the anniversary was past, and if his Majesty did not desire to hear them to-day, business, or the gout, or indigestion, or a thousand other reasons might be the cause. [10]
An overmastering desire was on her. [11]
This noble desire was not usually accompanied by artistic discrimination, and the land is filled with monuments and statues which express the gratitude of the people. [4]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper, and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
Yet here it was in his hand; and even as it lay in his cold fingers--how cold they were, and his head how burning!--the desire for it surged up in him. [11]
When my mother was gone I turned towards Virginia with longing, for I could not so soon go against her wishes and join the King's army on the Continent, and less desire had I to be a Glasgow merchant. [11]
Charmian's letter, too, was even better calculated to curb Dion's increasing desire to return home than the fisherman's warning. [10]
I heard after wards that she was very glad to know that they were in charge of persons who filled their minds with other thoughts than the desire to rule. [10]
After our civil war there was a patriotic desire to commemorate the heroic sacrifices of our soldiers in monuments, and the deeds of our great captains in statues. [4]
We had no wanton desire to wound even their feelings or trample upon their prejudices, but we were out of water, thus early in the day, and were burning up with thirst. [5]
I could have walked the broad way with a laughing heart, though, in truth, habit of mind and desire have kept me in the better path. [11]
There was another wait of half an hour toward nine o'clock, but I had gone through so much by that time that I had no spirit left, and so had no desire but to be let alone. [5]
Several Asiatic princes vied with each other in the desire to honour Mark Antony by a magnificent funeral, but Octavianus had allowed Cleopatra to provide the most superb obsequies. [10]
Crazed with the very violence of his long-pent desire, he seized her hand. [9]
You are my very own; you belong to me only, and not to yourself; and I desire, I command you to yield to my first request. [10]
But now the very force of a desire which had gathered strength in many years made him reckless. [9]
He felt his veins beating with desire, with anger, disgust, and shame; for there was John Brown, to the applause of the crowd, imitating his old manner, his voice, his very look. [11]
Then the vision vanished; instead he was possessed by a wild desire to see her, and he said to himself that he could not die without having seen her once more. [10]
And does Austen Vane desire it? [9]
But if you value my desire, we shall not have seen each other for the last time, though my double is undoubtedly a different person from the one I supposed. [10]
To a man, used to straightforward cuts in love as in any other object of his desire, this feminine exaggeration of conscientiousness is wholly incomprehensible. [4]
Young love that used to express its timid desire with the violet, or, in its ardor, with the carnation, now seeks to bring its emotions to light by the help of the chrysanthemum. [4]
They who rule us speak with foreign tongue, but their hearts desire our peace and a mutual regard. [11]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
When you came up here to give your care to these poor injured creatures, you took the first step in the new path I desire to show you, to true happiness. [10]
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. [5]
It was not until afterwards, in wandering through the lower rooms of this house, become so dear to her, that agitation seized her, and a desire to weep. [9]
I do not understand the flowers of speech, and desire plain language. [10]
But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. [2]
His father could understand that as he chose, and doubtless he would understand it as it was meant, as a dutiful and affectionate desire on the part of a son to make his old father happy for a moment. [5]
I wish to unburden my mind now, and yet I almost believe that I am moved to do it more because I long to bring censure upon another man than because I desire to pour balm upon my wounded heart. [5]
Afterwards, having dictated two telegrams which she wrote out on her machine, he leaned back in his chair; and though the business for the day was ended, showed a desire to detain her. [9]
Diodoros, meanwhile, had turned to look at the main entrance, and, carried away by the universal desire to see, had perched himself on an unopened case of dried figs. [10]
He suspected the truth, but felt no desire to have it confirmed. [10]
The love of truth is stronger than the desire of display. [4]
The Medici, having treacherously slain the chief, became mad with desire to slay the lieutenant. [11]
She was softened, touched; she felt, too, a responsive thrill to such a desire as his. [9]
Jane's active mind took up her interest in him and her half-determined desire to use what charm she had to foil his evident design in visiting Cottonwoods. [13]
But Mrs. Flynn took him broth made by Rosalie's hands, and Rosalie fought with her desire to go to him and nurse him. [11]
The water I took from the fountain of Trevi, which, you know, is supposed to possess the power of inspiring longing--only for the Eternal City, I believe--but perhaps in our phial it may awaken a desire for the Eternal Truth. [10]
He had come to-night prompted by his desire to see the condemned Melchite. [10]
And, la, as to yonder base rufflers, think ye they have not their fill, but yet desire more? [5]
We are obliged to write down what we desire to say. [5]
Every Unionist ought to wish the new government to succeed; and every disunionist must desire it to fail. [7]
That Mount Sinai to which I desire to transport the reader must not be confounded with the mountain which lies at a long day's journey to the south of it. [10]
The world seems to think that the love of money is "American"; and that the mad desire to get suddenly rich is "American. [5]
He exposed himself to the sun too much yesterday, but since it came of his earnest desire to learn, and to make this journey as useful as the opportunities will allow, no one seeks to discourage him by fault-finding. [5]
I stood frozen to the spot, trembling, convicted, for I knew that her accusation was just; I had wounded her, and I had a desire to make amends. [9]
He instantly expressed to the Ratisbon gentlemen his desire to try the gagliarde himself to such excellent music, and at a sign from the master of ceremonies the dance stopped. [10]
We often move to the objects of supreme curiosity or desire, not in the lines of castle or bishop on the chess-board, but with the knight's zigzag, at first in the wrong direction, making believe to ourselves we are not after the thing coveted. [6]

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