The only one who was a little stiff with him and expressed no desire to meet him again was Corti, the Italian plenipotentiary.

"Shall I do it?" asked Violet, feeling an almost irresistible desire to push Billie away and fling back the lid.

To caress him, to feed and watch over him by day, and hold him in her arms when he slept at nightall that was less to him than the sight of something new and strange; she knew this well, and therefore determined to satisfy his desire and make his life so full that he would always be more than contented with it.

All day, he has taken no food; but has shown an evident desire for waterlapping it up, greedily.

I have already writ to my Uncle, and the Messenger assur'd me, he would gratify my Desires; that done, I will be yours.

Then, again, it seemed probable we had a better chance of making our way around this circle than when we first traversed it, because just at this time Thayendanega's villains had received such a drubbing at the hands of the patriots as would most likely prevent them from having any keen desire to come upon more white men.

As a man who had had considerable experience in criminal trials he knew the irresistible desire of the criminal in the gallery of the court to encourage the man in the dock to keep up his courage.

Paul retreated to the top step, where he had a short-lived struggle with a well-grown calf which had been living in the room with the family, and evinced a very creditable desire for fresh air.

It should be noted, however, that both of the accounts manifest the not unnatural desire to give full prominence to the part taken by Columbus himself.

Thine eyes were glowing like blue-bells blowing, With dew-drops twinkling their silvery fires; Thine heart was panting with love enchanting, For mine was granting its fond desires.

The savages of America pretend to perform these cures by the music and jargon of their imperfect instruments; and in Apulia, where the bite of the tarantula is pretended to be cured by music, which excites a desire to dance, it is by an ordinary tune, very coarsely performed.

In the middle of the night I could not resist the strong desire I felt to tell her what preyed so much on my mind.

"Hame's hame," runs the proverb, "as the devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session," and I had lost any desire for that sinister company.

"Already the Liberals had conceived boundless desires, and the Retrogradists were haunted with unreasonable fears.

" The means of accomplishing her desire soon came.

Shelley gives us Desires, Adorations, Persuasions, Destinies, Splendours, Glooms, Hopes, Fears, Phantasies, Sorrow, Sighs, and Pleasure.

An hundred pairs of hands were out-stretched eagerly whenever he signified the desire to have this thing or that done, and he was more like to suffer from a surplus of helpers than a lack.

He will fulfil the desire of them that fear Him.

He is like a tourist in a new strange country, fresh and eager, and with a similar holiday spirit of adventure: the stimulation of the new arouses a desire to interpret, to investigate and to ask questions: it arouses strong emotions to like or dislike, to fear, to be curious; it leads to certain modes of conduct, as a result of these emotions.

She had recovered her good looks and youthfulness, and had never before experienced such a desire to divert herself, leaving her children more and more to the care of servants, and going about, hither and thither, as her fancy listed, particularly since her husband did the same in his sudden fits of jealousy and brutality, which broke out every now and again in the most imbecile fashion without the slightest cause.

The death of Samuel no doubt increased this desire, and he determined to emigrate.

And curiously, not only does it cause a fusion of intellectual material: it creates a desire for and a love of such material.

" Such were the opinions captain Willoughby entertained of his native land; a land he had not seen in thirty years, and one in which he had so recently inherited unexpected honours, without awakening a desire to return and enjoy them.

I have told him your Desire of seeing him, and shou'd you baffle him? Bea.

The history of the Inquisition at that time is full of contests between the kings and popes; and we constantly find, on the part of the holy see, a desire to restrain the Inquisition within the bounds of justice and humanity.