desiderate

'I do not desiderate that pie!' was his way of putting it.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

Nay, looking at the general state of things at this day, I desiderate for a School of the Church, if an additional School is to be granted to us, a more central position than

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

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

The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

Evidently, if these two foregoing statements are true, Mr. Froude must join us in thinking that a man whose mind could be warped by external influences from the softest commiseration for the sufferings of his kind, one year, into being the cold-blooded deviser of the readiest method for slaughtering unarmed holiday - makers, the very next year, is not the kind of ruler whom he and we so cordially desiderate.

West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

We desiderate means of instruction which involve no interruption of our ordinary habits; nor need we seek it long, for the natural course of things brings it about, while we debate over it.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

Over against the criticism of our day even moderately critical writers offer comments such as Skinner (p. 11): "It is a bold thing to desiderate a treatment more worthy of the theme, or more impressive in effect, than we find the severely chiselled outlines and stately cadences of the first chapter of Genesis."

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?

Beyond Life 1921

Then, too, consider his philanthropy! and deliberate how insufferable would be our case if you and I, and all our fellow parishioners, were to-day hobnobbing with other beasts in the Garden which we pretend to desiderate on Sundays!

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

"Truth is not hidden from the Friend of God," replied the hasheesh-eater, "I have erred being drunken with the hasheesh, for in the desiderate city, even in London, so thick upon the ways is the white sea-sand with which the city glimmers that no sound comes from the path of the charioteers, but they go softly like a light sea-wind."

Tales of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

London the desiderate city the sky is so deep a blue that by this alone the traveller may know where he has come, and may end his fortunate journey.

Tales of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917