She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring .
The patient was therefore committed to the care of some old Bushreens, who endeavoured to secure him a passage into paradise, by whispering in his ear some Arabic sentences, and desiring him to repeat them.
After this I was about to take my leave, when the king, desiring me to stop awhile, began along preamble in favour of the whites; extolling their immense wealth and good dispositions.
Sir Ralph soon became a versatile source of information to parents desiring details of the cost of living and education in France.
The practice of travelling abroad called forth many books on the subject, often written by travellers desiring to place their experience at the service of others.
Thus the first thing to be done by those desiring to study the language is to begin to read at once.
Desiring Griscombe and the young lady to follow him, and without waiting for any question or refusal, he turned, and immediately led the way up a broad uncarpeted stairway to the floor above.
He sent with them a negro hangman, desiring him to kill on the spot all they should take, except Lolonnois, the captain, who was to be brought alive in triumph to the Havannah.
Le Vasseur returned a wooden image by the messenger, desiring him to say, that for religious purposes, wood or silver was equally good.
This does not prevent my desiring to live longer; neither does a certain knowledge that I shall not prevent me from desiring to live, nor from being pleased with the idea of living, till that time.
Without, therefore, desiring to imply any prejudiced contempt for trade, I do desire to urge the consideration of its inevitable effects upon the mind.
The Senate had been called together, nominally for the purpose of desiring the Consuls of the year to provide a guard for its own safety.
In desiring this, he was the one honest man among many.
Atticus applies to him, desiring him to use his influence respecting a certain question of importance as to Buthrotum.
Vanity is active; it desires the applause of infinite multitudes; pride is passive, desiring only the applause of one person, which it already has.
Why should he be so ardent indesiring grave and verbose writers?
This being the bargain, Don Illan led the dean into a remote apartment, first desiring his housekeeper to procure some partridges for supper, but not to cook them until she had his special commands.
In the same way Peleus, desiring to secure Thetis, had to hold her fast through her various magical changes until she found resistance useless, and returned to her true form.
And fear you not, we will do that may be done, if God send us health; desiring you to prepare fully for one ship to be ready in the beginning of April to depart off the coast of England.
However, the monks persevered, greatly desiring to reach their goal, "on account of its being the largest city in which was the University of Idolatry, where lived the teachers who were wizards and masters of abomination.
Their object in persuading the Inca to send such a message to the viceroy becomes apparent when we learn that they "also wrote as from themselves desiring a pardon for what was past" and permission to return to Spanish dominions.
The struggles of the Greeks for independence at about this time were naturally regarded by those upholding the ideas of the Holy Alliance as dangerous to those states desiring to prevent revolutionary movements.
And then, as to fasting, discredited and discarded as it is in our day, there are yet some very good reasons for desiring its return and reinstatement among us.
There should be many so desiring saints here; for Christ's beauty is far better and far fairer, far more captivating, far more enthralling, and far more satisfying to us than it could be to David.
Our object in translating the foregoing passage, was to enable our readers to see the manner of people who indulge in pic-nics in the wood of Romainville, desiring them to compare M.
He immediately wrote to General Cuesta, desiring that the lady might be sent back to her husband without delay, as well as all the jewels and other spoil that had been seized by the Empecinado.
At the utmost I shall stay but two days, desiring to be at Washington on Monday.
Whereupon it is necessary for a Prince, desiring to preserve himselfe, to be able to make use of that honestie, and to lay it aside againe, as need shall require.
By this fortunate accident, the generals were enabled to open negotiations with the Makrônes, and to assure them that the army would do them no harm, desiring nothing more than a free passage and a market to buy provisions.
The conditions on which grants to schools for mothers and infant classes are made, set a standard for those communitiesdesiring help from the central authority, and furnish a basis of judgment as to the work of any local authority.
Tenant co-partners leaving or desiring to discontinue as co-partners have the right to sell their bonds to trustees at par.
What words we use, and in what order we put them, is the whole matter of style; and a man desiring to influence his fellow men has therefore not one, but two co-related instruments at his disposal.
Desiring therefore to fall upon them all at once and unexpectedly, he sent for ten of the chief men from each city, and ordered them to bring together, on a fixed day, all the gold and silver which they had in their houses and temples.
And men question much wherefore they are come, saying, 'Doth the King make a marriage for his daughter; or hath he sent for her, desiringto see her?
The general government, earnestly desiring to restore the State to its former position, has appointed a provisional governor, with power to call a convention for the accomplishment of that purpose.
She had done me the great honour of desiring that I should be invited to meet her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desiring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: desirous; eager; hoping; lascivious; libidinous; lustful; needing; wanting
