desiderate

Example Sentences

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O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.

From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

The only thing we desiderate in it is more of his welcome marks and names, B. M., Britwell, Lambeth, &c., to show where all the books approaching rarity are.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew

We desiderate in all things the sharp decidedness of the verdict of a jury—Guilty or Not Guilty.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison