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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

'I do not desiderate that pie!' was his way of putting it.    From Wordnik.com.  [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference

We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

In fact, I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I]

It seemed also, owing to its height, to desiderate wings, but there were none.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories] Reference

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Life] Reference

We desiderate in all things the sharp decidedness of the verdict of a jury -- Guilty or Not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference

Then, as the exciting sounds draw nearer and nearer, do I desiderate those eyes of Aristarchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Their contemplation will still desiderate something beyond all finite being, actual or possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Philosophy] Reference

` ` Upon my faith, sir, '' said Campbell, ` ` I cannot render you the service you seem to desiderate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

One can only query whether poetry has anything to do with "modern development," and desiderate the addition to "sentiment" of "art.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Arnold] Reference

We desiderate nothing so much as "searching enquiry," (p. 69,) but we are presented instead with something worse than random assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."] Reference

Then, as the exciting sounds draw nearer and nearer, do I desiderate those eyes of Aristarchus, "whose looks were as a breeching to a boy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biglow Papers] Reference

With regard to a place of safety, at least such hermetically sealed safety as these persons appeared to desiderate, it is not to be found in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Wonder] Reference

If for him I desiderate one thing more than another it is, that his dear wife and child may be restored at once to his side, and I earnestly pray that this happiness may speedily be given to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The story of the life of John Anderson : the fugitive slave ed.] Reference

"And therefore," he continued, "in the desiderate city, in London, all their camels are pure white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Wonder] Reference

“Upon my faith, sir,” said Campbell, “I cannot render you the service you seem to desiderate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

‘abridge’; ‘dormitory’ and ‘dortoir’ or ‘dorter’ (this last now obsolete, but not uncommon in Jeremy Taylor); ‘desiderate’ and ‘desire’.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

I can't say more words, and you don't desiderate them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]

"Upon my faith, sir," said Campbell, "I cannot render you the service you seem to desiderate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference

I desiderate to deal with in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914] Reference

Enormously I desiderate your domination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Then, last of all, I desiderate urbanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Life] Reference