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Sentences ending with desired

And Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen, treasurer of the widely known Miles Standish Bicycle Company, was said to have led the cotillon in a manner that left nothing to be desired. [9]
Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
You readily perceive why this information is desired. [7]
Was it not what I had desired? [9]
And now that we are also kin in sin, there is nothing more to be desired. [5]
At last he was wholly alone with his own thoughts, as he desired. [11]
But what we wanted to speak to you about was this," he continued, as Mr. Crewe showed signs of breaking in, "those committee appointments you desired. [9]
They had to wait a while, but eventually everything turned out as they desired. [5]
She recognized Navarrete's tones, opened the door, and asked what he desired. [10]
And what was to restrain him from reaching out his hand to pluck the fruit which he desired? [9]

Short sentences using desired

I desired no higher commendation. [5]
She desired nothing for herself. [10]

Sentences containing desired two or more times

She desired always that her visible corporeal self should be admired and desired, that men should say, "What a splendid creature! [11]
He had just seized an oar when Mastor, who had been desired by the Emperor to seek him, recognized him in the moonlight and desired him to return with him to the tents. [10]

More example sentences with the word desired in them

Eva, the beautiful yet perverse woman, was one of the last persons whom he would have desired to have near him when he took the step into the other world. [10]
You smile, and yet I feel sure that long as you have desired to revisit your dear Hellas, you will not be able to leave us quite without regret. [10]
Mademoiselle found them yesterday, and desired me to fetch them to you; and I obliged her. [11]
I think it would not be justifiable nor efficient for the desired object. [7]
True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [10]
She desired I would fetch my friend to her July 23rd. [10]
They were her worst enemies: Iras, who desired to wed her lover--Dion had told her so after the assault--and Alexas, whose suit she had rejected in a way which a man never forgives. [10]
He spelled the word Soul with a capital likewise, and certainly no higher recognition could be desired than this! [9]
Not a serious word had reached his ears from the wanton lips of the Lesbian, while Althea at once desired information concerning his art, and showed that she was thoroughly familiar with the works and the aspirations of the Alexandrian sculptors. [10]
But the old woman, sure of it beforehand, took his soothsaying quite calmly, and only desired to be carried up to her observatory that she might watch the risings of the stars. [10]
For now this woman who despised him, hated him, he desired more than all else in the world. [11]
Then, as the woman desired more particular information, he briefly told her the story. [10]
Foremost of them, with Theocritus, came the high-priest of Serapis, and Caracalla immediately desired them to introduce the newly appointed head-guardian of the peace. [10]
Her hands trembled with rage, and stammering rather than speaking she desired the praetor to order a composing draught for her. [10]
She turned away with a shudder, and desired the bearers to go on. [10]
This was the wife of his dreams, the proud woman, with whom the Eletto desired to share power and grandeur. [10]
The water-bearers of whom you desired to speak to me do not interest me--I care no more about them than about the swallows flying over the house yonder. [10]
Who was Grand, who was Well-Beloved, who was Desired, who was the Idol of the French, who was worthy to be called a King of the Citizens? [4]
And the jealousy which, fool that she was, she had desired to arouse in her lover, what abundant nourishment it would derive from the events which had occurred on her return from the festival! [10]
At the inn which they had now reached Justinus got out and desired his companion, a pale-faced man who sat sunk into a heap, to do the same; but with a weary shake of the head he declined to move. [10]
Her lips, too, which she had but rarely and timidly opened for a question or an answer, were in constant motion; for how much she desired to know, how many questions she had to ask the silent husband who had endured such terrible suffering. [10]
And what looks, what language he had at command, when he desired to put an end to my jealous complaints! [10]
He knew, too, what he desired to create. [10]
If only he were to bid her be his, she would follow him whither and wherever he desired, whatever Karnis and Herse might say to the contrary. [10]
While the attendants were disrobing him, he remembered his brother's present, had the box fetched and opened, and then desired to be left alone. [10]
The Alexandrians especially were aware that their Queen and Antony claimed and desired to be called "The new Isis" and "The new Dionysus. [10]
And thence we went to Mr. Premchand Roychand's bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India. [5]
I am very well satisfied however, for I like the number of the Muses; and perhaps he desired to do you, Publius, particular honor, since we are assembled here in the Roman fashion. [10]
Then she had water poured over her head again and again, till, when she desired the maid to desist, she had to lean breathless and almost exhausted against the marble. [10]
To remember him was what I best loved, and I earnestly desired to guide my steps as would have been his wish and will. [10]
Probably because she was too proud to accept alms from a man from whom her ardent heart vainly desired something better. [10]
But if there was to be a reference, he desired to introduce his bill embracing the three propositions, thus enabling the committee and the House to act at the same time, whether favorably or unfavorably, upon all. [7]
That private reason was the request of an old personal friend who himself desired to be receiver, but whom I felt it my duty to refuse a recommendation. [7]
Precisely because he was so strongly attached to this unfortunate woman, once so richly gifted, he desired to offer her the opportunity to obtain pardon from Heaven, and therefore insisted upon her retiring to the convent. [10]
But after it was over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. [2]
No special haste was needful, and, as he loved good wine and did not lack gifts from those who desired an audience with his master, he went first to the English Greeting, where the travelling clergy lodged and often deigned to accost him. [10]
As Sheriff Cummings was in Gold Hill that afternoon, and as I desired to converse with him about the previous assault, I invited him to my office, and he came. [5]
Of what good was fidelity if he that was faithful desired no longer as he once did? [11]
For this he was condemned to be hanged; but "before he turned of the lather," he desired to speak privately with the President, and thereupon accused Mr. Kendall--who had been released from the pinnace when Wingfield was sent aboard--of mutiny. [4]
The next night was appointed for a visit to the bottom of the crater, for we desired to traverse its floor and see the "North Lake" (of fire) which lay two miles away, toward the further wall. [5]
Uncle Ben Carvel was a veritable emperor in his own domain; and the Colonel himself, had he desired to enter the kitchen, would have been obliged to come with humble and submissive spirit. [9]
When, presently, her waiting-woman should return, she was resolved to leave the house at once; she could not bear to stay; her feelings and duty alike indicated the place where she might find the last hour's happiness that she expected or desired of life. [10]
He was a very lively young fellow who seemed to know everybody, and he desired to know if we would walk about a little before being shown to the boxes reserved for us. [9]
An argosy of Venice hove in sight, and Captaine la Roche desired to speak to her. [4]
Alexander held his trembling hand, and when the physician, a stout man of middle age, took the artist's place and bade him retire, Caracalla, in a low voice, desired him to remain. [10]
And he smiled too--he is a very handsome fellow--and desired me most pressingly to open the door as he had something of the greatest importance to say to me. [10]
In a confident tone he desired that the box should be placed on the table, and requested one of the council, who understood such matters, to give his opinion. [10]
Her protectress had told her that the mystics who desired to be admitted to the highest grades here passed through fire and water, and had to go through many ceremonies in various costumes. [10]
He only desired to utilize for improvement what he recognised as false. [10]
The American desired to take the one by which we had not come; the rest of us, tired out, preferred to go as we came--the shortest way. [11]
This brought her to swift decision she hurried to her room, desired the maid not to dress her hair, contenting herself with pinning a few roses into its natural curls. [10]
To be able to struggle and conquer, she must not withdraw from life and its influences, which, if she did not spare herself, promised to transform her into the resolute woman she desired to become. [10]
The judge desired to spend the night at Mohair, but was afterwards taken home by main force, and the next day his meals were brought up to him. [9]
She desired her to sit down by her side, and holding Paula's hand in both her own, she spoke to her in a tone of calm deliberation. [10]
He even desired to show it to me, but an epicurean strain in my nature held me back. [9]
He also desired to see the maternal tone prevail in this instruction. [10]
When Orion came to see her she would stroke his waving hair and, as she desired not to wound him and make him even more unhappy than he must be already, she neither blamed nor admonished him, and never reminded him of his father's curse. [10]
We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad. [4]
He desired me to say that the sketch of instructions to General McClellan herewith he thought made this addition unnecessary. [7]
Some had desired to rest beneath the very ground they had trodden in their daily walks; some, where the setting sun might shine upon their beds; some, where its light would fall upon them when it rose. [12]
The leech desired to remove the invalid lady in waiting from the city air, and she had chosen Barbara for a companion. [10]
It was foolish to raise his wishes so high, but he told himself that he had never beheld a woman more to be desired. [10]
Howbeit I had to put on a guise of content, nay of gladness, for the Royal pair had bidden me to their side and it was my task to explain all they desired to learn. [10]
Doubtless she desired to pray, but she could not. [10]
The Pharaoh desired to possess himself of the wife of the younger one, who lived on the Mount of Cedars, and he sent armed men to fetch her away; but only one of them came back to him, for Batau had slain all the others. [10]
When he desired to please, his conversation and the expression of his face must have moved a temperament of stone itself. [9]
If she desired to place him under the deepest obligations, she would join them there and adorn the festival with her singing. [10]
Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to that he decided to go. [2]
He desired Hermas to pass the night in his dwelling, as the scanty limits of the cave left but narrow room for the lad. [10]
And it came to pass after they had loosed me, behold, I took the compass, and it did work whither I desired it. [5]
If he desired to own that, while in a state of senseless intoxication he had slandered modest maidens, and was ignorant of his actions when he staked his castle and lands against the gold lying before him, Heinz Schorlin, he might keep Tannenreuth. [10]
It mattered little to me, since I desired to forget him as quickly as possible. [9]
She greatly desired to look backward towards De la Foret, but some good angel bade her not. [11]
Whether he meant to leave her in the lurch after using her for his selfish purposes, she also desired to learn from the sorceress. [10]
She now desired to know who the murderer was who had attacked him, and cursed him with impetuous wrath. [10]
The regent desired to know whether she had any special wishes concerning the Prebrunn house. [10]
The prince desired to know the state of the negotiations with Rome and with Duke Maurice of Saxony. [10]
Dion now desired to join him, and was soon standing on the deck at his side. [10]
The blood mounted to his head; he desired the interpreter to inform her that she was to hope for no mercy, and inwardly devoted her to a cruel death. [10]
To-day it seemed to him not only desirable, but quite possible, to win in battle at their head a land which they could love and where, in freedom and prosperity, they could become the able men he desired to make them. [10]
When I offered to help divide it, they kicked me and desired me to look out. [5]
Barbara especially desired to hear particulars about the mother of Margaret of Parma, the wife of Ottavio Farnese, that Johanna Van der Gheynst who gave this daughter to the Emperor. [10]
The populace desired to have the delightful news confirmed, and to express, by a public demonstration, the grateful joy which filled every heart. [10]
Your mother desired to have him moved to her house, but he is difficult to stir from his ways, and he would not leave his little room. [9]
But I desired to have a still firmer one unite us, and since your parents are dead, and I cannot go with the bridal dower to Amram, to buy you from him, I now bring my suit to you in person, high-souled maiden. [10]
I only desired to give, the reader an idea of a peculiarity of the "flush times" which I could not present so strikingly in any other way, and which some mention of was necessary to a realizing comprehension of the time and the country. [5]
Had I desired to feast my eyes on the castle in flames, it would, perhaps, now lie in ashes. [10]
She desired me to confer with Mr. Greeley about turnips. [5]
He desired her to come home with him at once, and she rose to obey, listening in silence to his assurances that the lives of Karnis and Orpheus would not be worth a sesterce if they fell into the hands of the Roman soldiers. [10]
His Eminence desired to be remembered to her, and said that only those who had been closely associated with his Majesty would be admitted to this ceremony, and he knew that she ranked among the first of these. [10]
He himself desired to be gracious to the brave champion of Marchfield, who under great irritation had drawn his sword. [10]
There he expects to be free from time-killing business, and to grant his mind that which he has long desired and a thousand duties forced him to withhold. [10]
Hannah desired her to await her return, and then joined her colleagues. [10]
Kutuzov's wish was to attack next day, and the whole army desired to do so. [2]
All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color. [5]
The latter desired to ascertain whether the influential warrior who commanded the most important fortress in the country could be persuaded to join a conspiracy formed by Arsinoe against her royal husband, but he seemed to have left Philippus with very faint hopes. [10]
At the same time, to prove to his friends how sincerely he desired to please them, he proposed that he and Justinus should immediately cross the Nile to lay his application before the Khaliff's vicar. [10]
In the mean time they desired nothing in the world but honor and pleasure; and such pleasure as well-bred, healthy, and genial youths, with amiability, strength, and money to spend, can always command, they enjoyed to the full, without carrying it to reckless extravagance. [10]
At the same time he desired that Rustem should join him as soon as his health would permit. [10]
To devote his time and skill to a blind man who, under the severest of visitations, lulled himself so contentedly in happiness, he considered unjust to others who desired recovery more ardently. [10]

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