Adjective : a desirable apartment. ,a desirable man or woman. ,a desirable law. From Dictionary.com.
That beauty for which can be substituted the word "desirableness," and that insignificant beauty which is the beauty of gems, were in great demand. From Wordnik.com. [Art] Reference
United States discovered its desirableness simultaneously. From Wordnik.com. [THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN] Reference
Nothing can madden the reason of the disembodied soul, else the view of the desirableness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of Catholic Girls] Reference
Such is my judgment, Lysimachus, of the desirableness of this art; but, as I said at first, ask. From Wordnik.com. [Laches, or Courage] Reference
Let there be no misunderstanding with respect to the desirableness of the coastal tract of North. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Illinois was at that time settling up rapidly and there were glowing accounts of its desirableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Mr. Crawford suggested the greater desirableness of some carriage which might convey more than two. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
A brother of Stephen Remington was sent west to spy out the land and report on its desirableness as a home. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
And she was aware of pride in herself, in her woman's desirableness that had won for her so wonderful a lover. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XV] Reference
The question is not concerning its desirableness, but its practicability: so far as it is practicable, it is desirable. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
The desirableness of Tom as a husband first forced itself upon her attention, and the undesirableness of Ayala as a wife for Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
She deliberately demonstrated that she was desirable to other men, as he involuntarily demonstrated his own desirableness to the women. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER VII] Reference
Paris made him appreciate the desirableness of being on fair terms with one who held not only his comfort, but probably his life, in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
The estimate they have formed of its desirableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
When, then, I speak of the desirableness of forming a. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
This desirableness Mademoiselle Valle had made clear to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
They were thus agreed as to the desirableness of some adaptability in one's ideas. From Wordnik.com. [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference
Her father had spoken to her only this very day of the desirableness of her returning home for good. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
One obvious inference from the facts I have stated, is the extreme desirableness of a native agency. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877] Reference
Meanwhile the desirableness of an interview with Carwin again returned, and I finally resolved to seek it. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
As to this hoe, I do not mind saying that it has changed my view of the desirableness and value of human life. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
She looked at her father, as if questioning him as to the desirableness of telling the few further particulars that she knew. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
We have dwelt on one point -- the desirableness, if not necessity, of shortness in them -- as specially valuable at the time. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Patronizing American lectures on the reality of risks and the desirableness of peace, which once were merely fatuous, are now obscene. From Wordnik.com. [NY Post: News] Reference
Hence the desirableness of securing their good will by showing them respect and supplying their needs, or else of somehow getting rid of them. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
The white man loved it for what he saw he could make of it; but how little he thought his making, would mar the desirableness and beauty of the. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830] Reference
While away on my cruises on the bay, I took no drink along; and while out on the bay the thought of the desirableness of a drink never crossed my mind. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
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