Desired
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It will be of use to somebody,' and he moved his jaw impatiently because of the incessant gnawing pain in his tooth, which even prevented him from speaking with the expression he
desired.
He wanted to say that it was a pity Ivan had pulled the saddle-girth so tight, but that would have sounded like a reproof, and Levin
desired
an amicable conversation.
Both of them leant down and gazed with adoration on this girl, in her virgin nakedness, whom they had
desired
so long, and who had come so late, when they had no longer hoped for her.
He
desired
no bond, either woman or friend; he would be master of his own life and those of others.
This was what was
desired
by Pluchart, who was secretary to the Federation of the Nord.
In the long narrow room of the Volcan, on a platform raised at the end, five singers, the scum of the Lille prostitutes, were walking about, low-necked and with monstrous gestures, and the customers gave ten sous when they
desired
to have one behind the stage.
The parents were there, and besides he still had for her a feeling, half of friendship and half of spite, which prevented him from treating her as a girl to be desired, in the midst of the abandonment of their now common life in dressing, at meals, during work, where nothing of them remained secret, not even their most intimate needs.
Why should they thus sulk against what they
desired?
But Paris only completed their separation, that Paris which she had
desired
since her first doll, and where she washed away her provincialism in a week, becoming a woman of fashion at once, and throwing herself into all the luxurious follies of the period.
But their looks met; he found her pale and exhausted; pretty, indeed, with her clear eyes in the face which had grown tanned, and he experienced a singular feeling; his spite had vanished; he simply
desired
that she should be happy with this man whom she had preferred to him.
It was true, she had
desired
him for six months.
At first he spoke of his dislike to the strike; the miners had not
desired
it, it was the management which had provoked it with the new timbering tariff.
But it was done with; she only
desired
now to live to the end with this one, if he would not hustle her about too much.
The lines at first danced before him, but he understood at last that these gentlemen
desired
a skirmish; certainly they did not order him to make things worse, but they allowed it to be seen that disturbances would hasten the conclusion of the strike by provoking energetic repression.
A terrible bitterness was poisoning his mouth, the uselessness of everything, the eternal pain of existence, shame for himself who always adored and
desired
this woman in the dirt in which he had abandoned her.
But if the workers
desired
the fair division of the goods of the earth, they ought at once to put themselves in the hands of the priests, just as on the death of Jesus the poor and the humble grouped themselves around the apostles.
His eyes were moist, as in this cry there broke out the secret desire of the vanquished, the refuge in which he
desired
to lose his torment for ever.
The
desired
reinforcements had not arrived, and his sixty men could hold out no longer.
At each new violence he had been stupefied by the course of events, for he had neither foreseen nor
desired
any of them.
Their idolized daughter, that daughter
desired
so long, on whom they had lavished all their goods, whom they used to watch sleeping, on tiptoe, whom they never thought sufficiently well nourished, never sufficiently plump!
He
desired
to live, his beast's memory awoke; the longing to breathe once more the air of the plains drove him straight onwards to the discovery of that hole, the exit beneath the warm sun into light.
No doubt they would have succumbed if they had not had as much water as they
desired.
Chaval would not go; he
desired
to be with them, against them.
Light, movable reading stands, which could be pushed away or pulled near as desired, allowed books to be positioned on them for easy study.
My second hull, the outer cover, includes a keel fifty centimeters high by twenty-five wide, which by itself weighs 62 metric tons; this hull, the engine, the ballast, the various accessories and accommodations, plus the bulkheads and interior braces, have a combined weight of 961.52 metric tons, which when added to 394.96 metric tons, gives us the
desired
total of 1,356.48
Consequently, Captain Nemo took every
desired
precaution in crossing it.
I both
desired
and dreaded it.
His condition up to the present time leaves nothing to be
desired.
He was in that state of astonishment and uneasy misgivings into which a heart falls when it has just obtained what it has long
desired.
Thus, after three hours of conversation, Julien obtained what he had so passionately
desired
during the first two.
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