desirableness
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This is cited by the Chancery Barrister as showing the advantage of an early acquaintance with foreign languages, and the desirableness of a pure accent.
From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir
Out of this trouble about the boots had arisen in Jem’s mind some serious misgivings as to the entire desirableness of donation visits.
From The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
Heart and brain were strained and sore; if she could be still till she died, Diana felt it to be the utmost limit of desirableness.
From Diana by Warner, Susan
The passions of men are not in proportion only to their sensibility, or to the desirableness of the object, but to the violence and irritability of their tempers, and the obstacles to their success.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William
Mr. Pendarrel ventured to hint, soon after his return, at the desirableness of some arrangement, and the reception of the experiment fairly frightened him from repeating it.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
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