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• What did Monsieur desire? (8)
• To dip in them was his desire. (10)
• I desire that they should meet. (10)
• The imperious Desire speaks out. (10)
• But, of course you desire a leave. (6)
• He had a torturing desire to kiss her. (8)
• My desire is to make up for the past. (10)
• A desperate desire to laugh seized her. (8)
• I consent, I desire it; I will see him. (10)
• Enough that he had no desire to harm her. (10)
• Fanny has a great desire to see Sotherton. (4)
• Only, do not desire, that you may not envy. (22)
• I shall desire you not to be shot or sabred. (10)
• Desire for sawdust and spangles has left him. (21)
• It was a quite simple desire to squeeze her hand. (8)
• We will not suppose that it is her desire to shine. (10)
• But I have a desire that she should come over to us. (10)
• Latterly his mind had turned much about this one desire. (13)
• A mighty force of water satisfied the desire of the earth. (10)
• But she had reason to desire an extended sale of the work. (10)
• Nevertheless, he had a desire to get quickly away from the spot. (9)
• She drinking his warm sweat will soothe his need, Not his desire. (10)
• Wilfrid could not reproach her, and he had not any desire to preach. (10)
• At that moment an irresistible desire for motherhood welled up in her. (12)
• His pride would debar him from understanding her desire to be released. (10)
• All confused with the desire to do something, he stoops to kiss her hand. (8)
• Her war with Willoughby sprang of a desire to love repelled by distaste. (10)
• An almost frantic desire to free himself from this coil rose up within him. (8)
• As this is not the desire to possess or even to taste, contempt will do it. (10)
• Here we have everything man can desire; without contest, an excellent host. (10)
• The desire to please his wife entangled Arnold in unwarranted expenditures. (18)
• He had appeased his conscience by restraining his wild desire to kiss her lips. (10)
• That is, the desire to be distinguished is an acknowledgement of insufficiency. (10)
• And in desperate desire to make her understand, he put his hand on her lifted arm. (8)
• Was it the penalty of living, which dampens the fire of passion and dulls desire? (13)
• Lady Racial betrayed a sudden gleam at having her desire thus intuitively fathomed. (10)
• They waste the soul with spurious desire, That is not the ripe flame upon the bough. (10)
• Even for a glimpse, for even a hope in chained desire The vision of it watered thirst. (10)
• If I did not desire to work, should I venture to run the chances of an offence to you? (22)
• She had not much power of heart to desire anything save that which her bosom disavowed. (10)
• The key to Rhoda at this period was a desire to be made warm with praise of her person. (10)
• The key to Rhoda at this period was a desire to be made warm with praise of her person. (22)
• Jeff could not resist the desire to scoff which always came upon him at sight of the Canuck. (9)
• Her desire was to see Roland, and open her heart to her brother; for now it had to be opened. (10)
• The desire of his heart was again to see her, who had been so nearly lost to all eyes for ever. (10)
• A strong desire for wine at his dinner-table warned him of something wrong with his iron nerves. (10)
• Her pitiable position appealed to the best of him; his inordinate desire of her aroused the worst. (10)
• No sooner had she done so, than a strange fluttering desire to look on Robert awoke within her bosom. (10)
• Violetta helped her to her bed-room under the pretext of a desire to hear the contents of the letter. (10)
• Shibli Bagarag was tempted in his desire for the golden branch to lift the iron bar upon Abarak, when lo! (10)
• He had suddenly no pride, no pleasure, no desire; nothing but a sort of dull resentment against everything. (8)
• In our hot moods we would desire things like unto ourselves, and object violently to whatsoever is unlike. (10)
• Finally, the sufferer expressed a desire for a priest, that she might not pass from earth without a sacrament. (5)
• The thirst of the terrible game of living, the desire of things, the brute love of triumph, filled his veins. (13)
• Did Beauchamp at all desire to have those idly lovely adornments of riches, the Yacht and the Lady, swept away? (10)
• Mrs. Lander reached the money as far toward Clementina as she could and shook it in the vehemence of her desire. (9)
• She had had no desire, no reaching out of her own, only a pleasure in the lovely qualities of things that were. (12)
• The desire in her was to be quit of the flesh, bearing a picture of her husband as having the dues of his merits. (10)
• She felt as though she had passed through a bad illness, and had no desire now but to get home as quickly as she could. (8)
• Four sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister. (4)
• The reflection generated contempt of English society, in the first place, and then a passionate desire for self-assertion. (10)
• It is not a desire to oppress, but a warning instinct of professional deterioration, that causes sardonic smiles and harsh flings. (21)
• At last it seemed to him that the friendliness of the Hurons and Algonquins would furnish him with the means of attaining this desire. (19)
• Man, differentiated from the other apes by his desire to know, was from the first obliged to steel himself against the penalties of knowledge. (8)
• Gratefully, yet with a passionate desire for fresh applause, the resolve to show him the very best which she could accomplish was strengthened. (5)
• His desire to be with her was the desire to escape the phantasm of the woman haunting to subjugate him when they were separate. (10)
• He kindled her thus, and the close-shut but expanded and knew the fretting desire to breathe out the secret within it, and be appreciated in turn. (10)
• Under cover of a patient desire to please she had nursed irritation and jealousy; the degradation of the sense of jealousy increasing the irritation. (10)

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