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Why, my child, dost thou so desirously court ambition, the most baneful of the deities? do not thou; the Goddess is unjust.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

It must of course continue to exist, but it is displaced in the spiritual hierarchy; and all that moves courageously, desirously, and vitally into the action of life takes on a deeper and subtler intention.

From Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Leaning his face against the old fence, he gazed through desirously.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston

"Are you offering it to me?" asked Ambrose, eying it desirously.

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert

“You will ’ave it nice,” said Miriam, desirously.

From The History of Mr. Polly by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)