"Desirous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all their enemies were asleep, the lovers made their escape. Ramsey and the Indians were so much occupied with Durant, they did not think of the prisoners as they would have done under other circumstances, though they did not feel desirous of seeing the deeds of the past day re-enacted. It was some time before they noticed the escape, and then no pursuit was instituted until after ...
— Ellen Walton - The Villain and His Victims • Alvin Addison
... not here now, and we may as well return," replied Captain Patterdale. "I am really more desirous of finding the papers in the box than ...
— The Yacht Club - or The Young Boat-Builder • Oliver Optic
... your Address to the Electors that you "are desirous of reducing the hours of Tram employes to four a day, with two months' holiday in the year, and of giving a general rise of wages up to about L2 extra per week." Will you kindly say how you reconcile ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891 • Various
... effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts." That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax. The highway-tax he paid, for he said he was as desirous to be a good neighbour as to be a bad subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts. Thoreau had now seceded, and was a polity unto himself; or, as he explains it with admirable sense, "In fact, I quietly declare war with the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to the landing to inspect the body, for there were one or two matters concerning which I was desirous of his opinion. Dr. De Breen was a blunt, abrupt young fellow, not given much to conversation upon topics outside his profession, and even then his remarks were invariably terse and much to ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
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