87 examples of desideratum in sentences

In the personal allusions which occur through the work, the author exhibits, as we have before noticed, a freedom from malice and all uncharitableness, and in many of them has attained that happy desideratum which Dryden considered a matter of so much difficulty: "How easy is it," he observes, "to call rogue and villain, and that wittily!

The desideratum now is not quantity, but quality.

To be strong-backed and neat-bound is the desideratum of a volume.

Such a compendium was a desideratum in our theological literature.

Assidua cogitatio super rem desideratum, cum confidentia obtinendi, ut spe apprehensum delectabile, &c. 4751.

The writings of Cada Morto, which will be found in the sequel, form a pleasing exception to this desideratum in the history and progress of early navigation and discovery.

The great desideratum is the removal of the Indians and the settlement of the perplexing question involved in their present locationa question in which several of the States of this Union have the deepest interest, and which, if left undecided much longer, may eventuate in serious injury to the Indians.

Nothing else was talked of for a long while; and after 10,000 copies had been sold, it became a very great rarity, quite a desideratum....

The great defect in the human character is selfishness, and to remove or lessen this is the great desideratum of moral culture.

Size a great desideratum, if combined with quality.

Mr. Larke's Princess Thor had a litter of seventeen, but even eight is too great a number for a bitch to suckle in a breed where great size is a desideratum.

Great size, including height at shoulder and proportionate length of body, is the desideratum to be aimed at, and it is desired firmly to establish a race that shall average from 32 inches to 34 inches in dogs, showing the requisite power, activity, courage, and symmetry.

Nowadays the Cotswold district falls short in one desideratum, and that a most essential one, of being a first-rate hunting country.

The great desideratum in modern times is an efficient check upon the power of banks, preventing that excessive issue of paper whence arise those fluctuations in the standard of value which render uncertain the rewards of labor.

Certainly not for want of interest in the subject because to fly, has been the great desideratum of the race since Adam.

" "Then," I proceeded, "have you effected the other great desideratum, the fixing of mercury?" "Than that process," said he, "there is nothing more easy; at the same time it is proper I should inform you, that there are a class of impostors, who mistaking the ancient writers, pretend it can be done by heat; but I can assure you, it can only be effected by water.

Still there was a desideratum, which these adornments of English Literature, "The Annuals," alone supplied.

A machine which should obviate these objections, was a desideratum; and we think such a one has been invented by Mr. Burnet, of Golden Square.

This long-sought-for desideratum is at length attained.

Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL said that none of the speakers had mentioned the most essential desideratum of a hat, and that was that it should be too small.

" The synopsis of the letters which I have given may perhaps tend in some small degree to supply this desideratum in his illustrious life alongside of the more copious anecdotes and reminiscences supplied by the patriotic and filial devotion of Mr. Custis.

A new career of usefulness and honour has been opened up to Sylvanus Urban, who seems determined to merit the addition lately made to his title, and to become what is really a desideratum in English Literaturea good "Historical Review.

Of Strychnos, which is also frequent, and probably produces its flowers during the rainy season (as has been remarked of this genus in other countries) specimens in that stage of its fructification are still a desideratum; all that is known respecting the plant being the form and size of its fruit, which in some species varies considerably.

As an heir was the great desideratum, he had resolved that Matilda Thoroughbung should be the lady, in spite of the evils attending the new connection.

From this arose much misunderstanding; for, justly, all poets should work their material plastically, be it Christian or heathen; they should set it forth in clear outlines; in short, plastic form should be the main desideratum in modern Romantic art, quite as much as in the ancient.

87 examples of  desideratum  in sentences