desiderate

Example Sentences

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But what more comfort could a man desiderate than is given by the Holy Spirit?

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

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

By one stroke of his pen the Apostle unfolds a heart-history; so that we desiderate no more—more would almost spoil the touching simplicity—“He whom Thou lovest!”

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

One can only query whether poetry has anything to do with “modern development,” and desiderate the addition to “sentiment” of “art.”

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George