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Example sentences for "should desire"

  • I should desire that he saw them before he sets out for his government.

  • I should desire no better fortune than to have the privilege of showing him to all I please.

  • I should desire my compliments to him, were I not afraid that he would interpret the civility as paying black mail to him.

  • Can any think that God should be pleased, when men despise his Son, saying, He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him?

  • And the quietness and the calms of the faith of victory over corruption should be entertained, in place of security; so that if I sleep, I should desire to sleep faith's sleep in Christ's bosom.

  • God forbid that I should desire to shake the consoling religious convictions which connect this life of trial with a life of felicity.

  • The images are in themselves pleasing and appropriate, the lines steal with a graceful flow on the ear; but we should desire to find something more raised above the commonplaces of poetry.

  • He gives his authorities, if not so much as we should desire, very far more than the editors of the former Basle lexicon.

  • The language, even where the subject best admits of it, is not so elevated as we should desire.

  • We should desire, indeed, that the citizens should be moral, but we cannot allow them to become idle and poor.

  • He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

  • He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

  • But the young men professed they would give them any assurance they should desire; nor did they at all contradict what they requested, so great was the passion they had for them.

  • He then sent ambassadors to the king of the Idumeans, and desired him to give him a passage through his country; and agreed to send him what hostages he should desire, to secure him from an injury.

  • Surely we should desire a meetness for our inheritance as well as a title to it.

  • He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

  • And the connection is everything we should desire.

  • But were it so, Mr. Lydgate, I should desire to know the truth without reservation, and I appeal to you for an exact statement of your conclusions: I request it as a friendly service.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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