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Sentences starting with desires

Desires a continuance of my custom! [5]
Desires immediate answer. [5]

Sentences ending with desires

The privilege of working such a mine one week would be sufficient for a man of reasonable desires. [5]
It is indifferent to the man's good; it never concerns itself about anything but the satisfying of its own desires. [5]
Let me go to her and ask what she desires. [10]
Forcing my way through the doors, I captured a salesman, and from a state bordering on nervous collapse he became galvanized into an intense alertness and respect when he understood my desires. [9]
I formally declare this reading-room open, and I think that the legislature should not compel a community to provide itself with intelligent food, but give it the privilege of providing it if the community so desires. [5]
Prince Vasili entered the room with the air of a happy conqueror who has attained the object of his desires. [2]
But even in the midst of these surges of passion I was conscious of the birth of a new force I did not understand, and which I resented, that had arisen to give battle to my passions and desires. [9]
To wit, to the Kameshwar Temple, sacred to Shiva as the Lord of Desires. [5]
In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires. [2]
She has what sentimentalists call temperament, and after all we haven't any better word to express dynamic desires. [9]

Short sentences using desires

No, she had desires yet. [4]

Sentences containing desires two or more times

I see now that this coming to you was something I have wanted to do all along, but it was the cowardly thing to do, after I had failed, for it was not as though I had conquered the desires, the desires conquered me. [9]
All he desires in a wife--if he desires one--is an inanimate and accommodating looking-glass, in whom he may see what he conceives to be his own image daily. [9]

More example sentences with the word desires in them

She desires not your governance and care. [11]
He desires that you, who wish the Territories to remain free, should believe that he stands by that position; but he does not say it himself. [7]
We had desires, yes convictions, no. [9]
Away, I say, with your accursed desires and sacrilegious hands! [10]
It ill accords with our desires, as tranquil travelers, to be plunged into such a vortex of slow dissipation. [4]
She was familiar with everything in Rome, the desires and struggles of the contending parties, as well as the characters of the men who were directing affairs, their qualities, views, and aims. [10]
I think you will be willing to hear some lines which embody the subdued and limited desires of my maturity. [6]
Whatever she desires whose fulfilment will not force me to despise myself is granted in advance. [10]
Yet, if I were to locate the Sirens geographically, I should place the beneficent desires on this coast, and the dangerous ones on that of wicked Baiae; to which group the founder of Naples no doubt belonged. [4]
That the world went well with her, and that no obstacle was opposed to the gratification of her reasonable desires, or to her impulses of charity and pity, was about all she knew of her power. [4]
He desires that we reconsider the vote by which he was elected. [5]
What we wanted we got not by defying the world, but by conforming to it: we were ready to defy only when our desires overcame the resistance of our synapses, and even then not until we should have exhausted every legal and conventional means. [9]
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]
Her own home was far more richly and prettily furnished than her old one in Red Cock Street, but it did not yet satisfy her desires, and she did not feel content in it. [10]
It is so unfortunate that the spring, which begets so many desires, brings the languor that defeats their execution. [4]
Ruth far outstripped Ulrich in her desires and wants, thus luring him to follow her. [10]
At first he trembled for him; then he entirely forgot the danger into which he had thrown him, and only hoped for the fulfilment of his desires, and for wonderful revelations through his investigations of the human heart. [10]
His original kindness to the woman had given him many troubled hours at home, for Madame Dauphin had construed his human sympathy into the dark and carnal desires of the heart, and his truthful eloquence had made his case the worse. [11]
The Regent desires to take nothing from you. [10]
After having yielded to some temptation we feel a sense of dissatisfaction, shame, repentance, or remorse, analogous to the feelings caused by other powerful instincts or desires, when left unsatisfied or baulked. [1]
When I want to see one of those big people I write a note: 'Princess So-and-So desires an interview with So and-So,' and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or four times--till I get what I want. [2]
Her Majesty desires to receive her late visitor in the Hall of Shells. [10]
The counting-room desires to conciliate the advertisers; the editor looks to making a paper satisfactory to his readers. [4]
He desires Lanphier to be taken as authority in what he states in his newspaper. [7]
He desires Harris to be taken as a man of vast credibility; and when this thing lies among them, they will not press it to show where the guilt really belongs. [7]
I have met thousands of mourners in these melancholy scenes, which, I can assure you, are the very best school for training any one who desires to search the hearts of his fellow-creatures. [10]
But we--we enlist them in the name of the loftiest ideas and warmest desires of the human heart, and, as the prize of victory, we show them the ancient faith with freedom of thought--the ancient loveliness of life. [10]
Nothing which attracts their attention and awakens their desires must surround them; but your father's gold led Hermon, ere the season of apprenticeship was over, into the most luxuriant clover fields. [10]
But you are the last person who would admit that gratitude should fetter the hand which desires to defend itself. [10]
Lanphier is doing the Judge good service, and Douglas desires his word to be taken for the truth. [7]
His people in the East, who had thwarted his youth, vexed and cramped him, saw only evil in his widening desires, and threw him over when he came out West--the scallywag, they called him, who had never wronged a man or-or a woman! [11]
His views on the collateral points that may naturally arise, the President desires me to say he will communicate to you through me if you should suggest the personal interview that Mr. Edward Kidder recommends in his letter to his brother. [7]
When one enters the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Sepulchre itself is the first thing he desires to see, and really is almost the first thing he does see. [5]
It is clear that the man who advocates the conclusion of a peace, and that the Minister should command the army, does not love our sovereign and desires the ruin of us all. [2]
It is clear that many instinctive desires, such as that of hunger, are in their nature of short duration; and after being satisfied, are not readily or vividly recalled. [1]
The President desires that General McDowell retain the command of the Department of the Rappahannock and of the forces with which he moves forward. [7]
Mr. Ruskin says that "the Sirens are the great constant desires, the infinite sicknesses of heart, which, rightly placed, give life, and, wrongly placed, waste it away; so that there are two groups of Sirens, one noble and saving, as the other is fatal. [4]
They confine this term to actions done deliberately, after a victory over opposing desires, or when prompted by some exalted motive. [1]
I will now teach, offering my way of life to whomsoever desires to commit suicide by the scheme which has enabled me to beat the doctor and the hangman for seventy years. [5]
His spirit had taken its flight to a land where all anxieties shall be charmed away, all desires gratified, all ambitions realized. [5]
And what seemed still more terrible to her was that since her father's illness began (perhaps even sooner, when she stayed with him expecting something to happen), all the personal desires and hopes that had been forgotten or sleeping within her had awakened. [2]
Fierce and tenacious, steel in the cruelty of his desires, fearful in the havoc he had wrought, could he be subdued? [9]
And his speech sounded so warm and true, so full of deep and tender desires, that at any other time I might have yielded. [10]
Both threw away some tolerably fair-looking opportunities; for both, in their secret hearts, were resolved to make absolutely sure work this time, and neither meant to allow his fevered desires to seduce him into any venture that had much uncertainty about it. [5]
Then snatching a small tablet from the dressing-table, she scrawled upon the wax with a rapid hand: "Cleopatra, the Queen, desires to see Barine, the daughter of Leonax, without delay. [10]
Jean Jacques was silent, but in his face was the longing of a soul sick for home, of one who desires the end of a toilsome road. [11]
Why could not she feel the joys and desires of which Mrs. Holt had spoken? [9]
I want to say again that I should not be here if I had obtained my desires. [9]
Therefore bounty, and safety, and all thy desires were thy due. [11]
Joshua seized her right hand, exclaiming: "Ah, if you could attain what your loyal soul desires! [10]
This life, without responsibility or clean clothes, may continue as long as the reader desires. [4]
Logically, Youth has re-equipped him for sin and with the disposition to commit it; he will naturally go to the fane which is consecrated to the Fulfillment of Desires, and make arrangements. [5]
If the lady receiving the call desires a further acquaintance, she must return the visit within two weeks; to neglect it beyond that time means "let the matter drop. [5]
She desires to ransom herself from a lawful marriage concluded by her father, as if she were a captive of war; perhaps she even wants to follow another. [10]
He desires to pursue in detail the vast new discoveries of the astronomers, which even amid the pressure of duties he had explained to him. [10]
He desires to preserve the government, that it may be administered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. [7]
He desires to place me in an extremely Abolition attitude. [7]
She had used other people to satisfy her selfish desires and then discarded them ruthlessly. [10]
If there is one who desires to go, let him come and shake hands upon the altar of devotion, and swear that he will be a hero; yes, a Hector in a cause like this, which calls aloud for a speedy remedy. [5]
But there is one way whereby he can get its help when he desires it. [5]
And more than once Doltaire followed her glance, and a faint smile passed over his face, as if he saw and was interested in the struggle in her, apart from his own passion and desires. [11]
This happened so often, that Mr Swiveller by degrees began to feel strange influences creeping over him--horrible desires to annihilate this Sally Brass--mysterious promptings to knock her head-dress off and try how she looked without it. [12]
The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. [7]
In your experience of society, what is it that it pursues and desires? [4]
The mighty pressure of rising surges of yearning dashed against the monarch's heart, and with tremendous impetuosity roused on all sides the tender desires which for a long time had been gathering in his soul. [10]
All--all he desires of me is right and good; he is not like other men; he does not care for nothing but my pretty face. [10]
At the moment of action, man will no doubt be apt to follow the stronger impulse; and though this may occasionally prompt him to the noblest deeds, it will more commonly lead him to gratify his own desires at the expense of other men. [1]
Besides, everybody does n't like to talk about the next world; people are modest in their desires, and find this world as good as they deserve; but everybody loves to talk physic. [6]
Good shopkeepers are not supposed to have any tastes, predilections, or desires of their own, and it was therefore with no little surprise that, after many haphazard attempts, Honora discovered Mr, Dallam to be possessed by one all-absorbing weakness. [9]
May the second not only aid you to gain the splendour of a crown, but, above all, instil into your soul the satisfaction with that longed-for highest happiness which your mother's heart desires for you! [10]
If he has no such sympathy, and if his desires leading to bad actions are at the time strong, and when recalled are not over-mastered by the persistent social instincts, and the judgment of others, then he is essentially a bad man (30. [1]
For she had never conceived of him as having any desires whatever. [9]
It is that mysterious autocrat, lodged in a man, which compels the man to content its desires. [5]
Gold, and yet more gold--that is the end, the foul end, of all your desires. [10]
General York desires me to say that the amount of rations formerly sent should be duplicated and sent at once. [5]
By it we may become involuntary hypocrites, uttering desires which are not real, and consoling ourselves in the midst of sin, with the recollection that we have prayed over it--or mean to ask forgiveness at some later day. [5]
I mentioned the mausoleum, whose erection the Queen desires. [10]
If this reckless man of pleasure, this notorious spendthrift and disturber of the public peace, with his insatiate desires, had inspired bitter hostility, few had gained the warm love of so many hearts. [10]
And you may make it known that this young gentleman desires a servant, a good man, mind you, with references, who knows a gentleman's wants. [9]
All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions, passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes. [5]
No; his future life stood before him, stripped of the hopes that once adorned all his sanguine desires. [5]
I write another letter, enclosing this, which you can show her, if she desires it. [7]
He desires to lead us out of the land of Egypt, to a distant country where neither Pharaoh nor his viceroy shall rule over us, and He alone shall be our king. [10]
Had he ever known these wild, destroying desires? [9]
In commenting on it he desires to know whether we cannot speak frankly and manfully, as he and his friends do. [7]
What he desires is sure to be granted. [10]
The preacher, it is said, advocates temperance because he is a fanatic, and desires a union of the Church and State; the lawyer from his pride and vanity of hearing himself speak; and the hired agent for his salary. [7]
Was it thy influence outreaching then To me, o'er untrod years, o'er varying days, To give me courage, as from phase to phase Of youth's desires I passed to deeds of men? [11]
Why must the Indian always give way--Indian habits, Indian desires, the Indian way of doing things, the Indian point of view, Indian food, Indian medicine? [11]
He desires comfort in it, and only the beautiful is comfortable to him. [10]
There is none in Egypt that desires good; thy task is too great. [11]
In that sense, if in no other, I have been a typical American, regarding my country as the happy hunting-ground of enlightened self-interest, as a function of my desires. [9]
For love is humble, and undervalues self in contrast with that which it desires. [4]
Every man going his own pace, seeking to gratify his own aims and desires, unconscious and heedless of the want with which he rubs elbows. [9]
The darling of his desires was, to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster. [5]
Man prompted by his conscience, will through long habit acquire such perfect self-command, that his desires and passions will at last yield instantly and without a struggle to his social sympathies and instincts, including his feeling for the judgment of his fellows. [1]
The burden on her soul was due only to the consciousness of having, for the first time, opposed the will of the sovereign, to fulfil whose desires and to promote whose aims had been the beloved duty of her life. [10]
He belonged to her realm of the imagination, of thought, of insight, of intellectual passions and the desires of the soul. [11]
She wished for her husband's presence, as a saviour from herself and the forbidden desires of this terrible hour. [10]
Everything the human heart desires was already his. [10]

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