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desirous of high office. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Limbaugh said that the media is "desirous" of seeing Black QBs like Philly's McNabb do well. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
And what is it that makes you so desirous to go to mount. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
"I am very desirous of seeing him," he added, earnestly. From Wordnik.com. [The Dare Boys of 1776] Reference
Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
I inquired, desirous to ascertain whether I had been understood. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With the growing cares of the family the wife and mother was desirous to. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
Being at all times desirous to do good, she established temporarily a House of. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death and could not. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
A combat in which neither of the combatants seemed desirous of assuming the aggressive. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
He thought himself ill-adapted to marriage, and but little desirous of being a husband. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So if you are desirous, if you want to tell the story, you're not going to take your time. From Wordnik.com. [Backstage With Broadway Legend Patti LuPone] Reference
Perhaps it was seeing the most desirous bachelor in the pueblo with his tentigo bobbing in midair. From Wordnik.com. [Regret] Reference
And he looked at me, almost frightened by this little being, and desirous to know what I thought of it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And whereas he was desirous to go to Achaia, the brethren exhorting wrote to the disciples to receive him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
They inclosed his letter in one from them asking whether I were desirous of acquainting him with my whereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
He was puzzled by the action, or rather lack of action of the enemy, and was desirous of learning what it meant. From Wordnik.com. [The Dare Boys of 1776] Reference
But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Suppose we go in," said Planus, desirous of banishing his friend's melancholy at any cost, "the beer is excellent.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The man had his back turned toward them and seemed to be sneaking around, as though desirous of escaping observation. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Would it not be strange if, judging about the same offenses, you were more desirous to take punishment from the guiltless?. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
They were desirous that he should have the benefit of the advice of Dr. Darling, the kind-hearted physician already mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Jacob, desirous to return home, is hired to stay for a certain part of the flock's increase, whereby he becometh exceeding rich. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
She became desirous to discover some tendency to ill-health in the plant that was too ready to bloom into beauty and perfection. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mr. Stanton seemed desirous of coming into contact with the negroes to confer with them, and he asked me to arrange an interview for him. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
These desirous green spaces are scattered throughout the concrete reality, gritty or polished, that most people think of the City of Light. From Wordnik.com. [Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Urban Gardens] Reference
The dissolution too of a kingdom and a tyranny are generally the same; for monarchs abound in wealth and honour, which all are desirous to obtain. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
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