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Example sentences for "strong desire"

  • Why a strong desire hag a dynamic effect in certain cases.

  • Strong desire, and earnest attention in the desired direction, will do much to cultivate, develop and unfold any psychic faculty.

  • The importance of strong desire to influence and exert power.

  • It is seen that a strong feeling, or excitement, accompanied by a strong desire or wish to summon another person, tends to give great power and effect to the thought waves emitted.

  • Lord Wellesley had followed his own judgment, and carried things with a high hand, often against the will of the East India Company, and there was a strong desire to reverse his policy.

  • The distinct mission impulse passed away, but a strong desire remained to devote himself to the ministry of the Church.

  • There was at this time a strong desire to send a mission into independent Zululand, with a Bishop at its head.

  • This declaration closed the argument, as his friends did not feel any strong desire to see him drink, and argued the matter with him as much for argument sake as anything else.

  • He had moved onwards but a few paces, when the thought of home and his children came up in his mind, accompanied by a strong desire to go back to his dwelling--a feeling that required a strong effort to resist.

  • Into this feeling of interest in knowing what the new drink could be, I infused a strong desire to taste it.

  • Frederick seems to have had a strong desire to be represented in an amiable point of view by writers who, he believed, could transmit his fame to posterity.

  • Nevertheless, I have a strong desire to get a taste of native air.

  • I confess a strong desire to listen to what Thousandacres has to say in defence of his conduct, Chainbearer," I now thought it best to put in; "and I hope you will so far oblige me as to be a patient listener.

  • I have a strong desire to protest against the invasion of my rights as a freeman that is connected with some of their contemplated laws.

  • It seemed that the Chainbearer knew the occurrences by report only, not having been present at the scenes connected with them; but he felt a strong desire to visit the graves of the sufferers.

  • Being of this opinion, and from a strong desire of doing good, Dr.

  • She looked at the woman with a strong desire to do something violent, for every nerve was tingling with irritation and anger.

  • But of late I had felt a strong desire to hear from them, and I requested Mrs. Harringford to give me some account of the family in the letter she proposed writing from Philadelphia.

  • I had not a doubt of the support of Governor Foster, with whom I had been in close correspondence, and who expressed a strong desire for my nomination.

  • President Hayes frequently, in personal conversation and in writing, had expressed a strong desire that I should become the Secretary of the Treasury.

  • They manifest a strong desire to have their children educated; and steps to this end have been taken by the Department.

  • They expressed," he says, "a strong desire to have some arrangement made by which they would be allowed to occupy a portion of that reservation.

  • A strong Desire or a strong Fearthought is an aim at the thing desired or feared.

  • When the time comes for a change you will find a strong desire for a something else full-grown within you.

  • Feeling a strong desire to save the lives of these two young people at every risk, I immediately went back to the chief, and used every argument in my power to induce him to set Piomingo at liberty.

  • I had conceived a strong desire to conciliate the good opinion of a man who had treated me with so singular and so familiar a kindness, and it was sincerely that I expressed my regret at the acerbity with which I had assailed Dr.

  • I turned my eyes from that dumb House of Death wherein rested the corpse of the last lord of the soil, so strangely murdered, with a strong desire to speak out to Margrave the doubts respecting himself that tortured me.

  • I have had a strong desire to have a cat like the late Matifas, who approved of you so heartily, but I am going soon on a journey to the Pyrenees, and I shall have no time to train him.

  • Joking aside, and speaking of promises, since you do not care to have my water-colour, I have a strong desire to send it to you.

  • I have a strong desire to see you, and to know your state of mind.

  • For a week I have had such a strong desire to see you, that I have even brought myself to the point of regretting our quarrels.

  • In fact, just as strong desire goes by the name of passion in popular parlance, so mental obliquity on a grand scale is entitled madness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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