Simply desirous to save my guests from annoyance of any kind", he said.
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And Isoult la Desirous has taught me, who is now Isoult la Desirée.
Isoult la Desirous it was who won the charter, as the Abbot had intended she should, to serve his end and secure her own according to his liking.
Before he was a Wagnerian he was the curator of a museum, and Owen remembered how desirous he was to learn the difference between Dresden and Chelsea china.
Now I am desirousof trying whether she might not fancy a bag of dates.
Her Majesty had become extremely indisposed from the long journey, and was desirous of receiving medical aid; but it being contrary to the court etiquette that the royal consort should be seen by any male, an interview could not be accorded.
Early one morning Graham received a message from the impatient despot to announce that the day being auspicious, he was desirous of seeing one post at least erected without delay.
But few people are more desirous or more capable of trading than the natives of Africa; and the facility with which factories might be formed is sufficiently proved by experience in various parts of the continent.
I am ten times more desirous of making the book as good as I can, since I have reason to believe you will be interested in it.
The slight, and to unaccustomed ears almost inappreciable, shades of aspiration and accentuation, are the main difficulty in the way of foreigners desirous of learning the Chinese language.
This elegant figure seems to be a favourite deity with the Chinese, as it frequently adorns their little domestic altars, and is especially reverenced by the women who are desirous of the honours of maternity.
He seemed desirous of inviting us to come on shore and visit the islands.
You know," quoth the Baron, apparently desirous of explaining his meaning, "he that wrote the Kosmos.
Such a Presence thus manifested is the consistent doctrine of the Church.
The absence of these details from St. Mark's narrative is interesting, and shows the mistake of thinking that his Gospel is simply the most graphic and the fullest.
And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit.
And who shall dare to limit the influence exerted by that benediction on their future lives?
Do the words startle us, with the suggestion of a limit to the forbearance of Jesus, well-nigh reached?
The whole have no need of a physician; He came not to call the righteous.
Possibly there was yet another reason for leaving him in his home.
With this conviction which I have gained, I am naturally not desirous to create works for which I should have to resign a life in the present in order to give them some flattering, fictitious immortality.
Your last news has once more made me desirousto write to the Hereditary Grand Duchess.
I am amongst those most desirous of seeing you, sir, and of repeating from mouth to mouth the expression of the admiring and devoted sentiments of which I ask you to be a thousand times assured.
Resolving to follow literature as a profession, he wasdesirous of becoming personally acquainted with the distinguished men of letters in Germany; in June 1800 he embarked at Leith for Hamburg.
Successful as a philosopher, Dr Brown was desirous of establishing a reputation as a poet.
A wide circle of influential friends were earnestly desirous of his promotion.
Mr. Bignell says: "I once had a virgin female of the Oak-egger moth, and was desirous of getting some males.
He was evidently a very shrewd and grasping man, and particularly desirous of pushing ahead and obtaining a position to which his only claim was wealth.
He was desirous to obtain pardon, by various excuses, and the most abject humiliation, but in vain.
If you had been desirous to learn what was passing, your appearance should have been like that of a knight or a decent person.
Khorchid was particularly desirous of securing the treasure.
Mr. Knill was very desirous to trace a descent from the family of Knill of Knill, in Hereford, but entirely failed to do so.
The book is intended to be a guide to English readers desirous to keep in touch with the best present-day French fiction.
Orestes, mistaking Electra for one of the domestics, and desirous of keeping his arrival a secret till the hour of vengeance should arrive, produces the urn in which his ashes are supposed to rest.
Odin, who is desirous to collect a great many heroes in Valhalla, to be able to meet the giants in a day when the final contest must come, sends down to every battle-field to make choice of those who shall be slain.
An attention to these general remarks, will be found of much advantage to the lady who, in making her purchase is desirous of combining elegance of appearance with durability of wear, and economy of price.
Champlain, in thorough accord with the policy then dominant at the court of France, was fully as desirous of establishing the Christian religion among the savages of America as of gaining new possessions for France.
The Récollet missionaries were cultivators, and, desirous of leading the savages from a nomadic to a sedentary life, even induced a few of the latter to imitate their example.
He was a capteine much watchfull, as one contented with verie little sléepe, anddesirous to haue his souldiers also vigilant and carefull to kéepe sure watch in the night season.
Men therefore were desirous to sée what maner of man he was that had so manie yéeres set at naught the puissant force of the empire.
But the souldiers yet séemed to be verie desirous of battell, requesting him to bring them to it, protesting that nothing was able to resist the force of noble prowes.
The other bands desirous to match their fellowes in helping to atchiue the [Sidenote: Hollanders.
I refer you to Abbie, who seems to be thoroughly posted, and very desirous of displaying her argumentative powers.
I will suppose, that they were desirous of taking an impotent government out of the hands of Jews and pedlars, old women and minors, and to render it a part of the great system.
As we are not at all desirous of palling the curiosity of the reader for the poem itself, we shall make our extract at random.
But, desirous of being secure in the meantime, on such a document as that alluded to, he insisted; and it was instantly given him.
In this atrocious conduct of Raeburn's there was policy as well as natural heartlessness; for he was desirous of disgusting her with his coldness, and thus preparing the way for the addresses of Cressingham.
