Slowly, silently, menacingly, he bent over her, eyes fixed desirously upon her person. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bonnard's "Les Baigneuses Dans un Parc" (1908), a pearly, twinkling oval of frolicking bathers, and Cézanne's "Baigneurs et Baigneuses" (c. 1870-71), in which the shimmering female nudes, magnetically charged, incline desirously toward the reclining male, have enough erotic chutzpah to keep your senses alive long after you have left the building. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Cyprus, which he himselfe had formerly made, in honour of the love he bare to his Mistresse, and what delight he conceived, by being dayly in her presence; whereby he gathered, that it was impossible for him to forget her, and proceeded on so desirously, as he could not live, except he had a sight of her once more, and therefore determined on his returne to Florence. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Yes, it was her body he smelt, a wild and languid smell, the tepid limbs over which his music had flowed desirously and the secret soft linen upon which her flesh distilled odour and a dew. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Hence, those who would for the present (“populo ut placerent, quas fecere fabulas,”) desirously retain some show of asserting the liberty of eternally distinguishing free grace, do themselves utterly raze, in respect of any fruit or profitable issue, the whole imaginary fabric of general redemption, which they had before erected. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
They would very desirously have evangelical joy, peace, and assurance, to countenance them in their evil frames and careless walking. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
And therefore, as laying aside that consideration alone, I could desirously have been excused from the labour of those hours which were spent in its composure; so in the work itself I admitted no one thought, but how the things treated of in it might and ought to be managed unto thy spiritual benefit and advantage. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
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. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
So marvellously had the girl improved and so desirously had she applied her needle, that save for the beaded moccasins upon her feet, her clothing differed in no essential detail from that of Chloe Elliston or of Harriet Penny. ❋ Unknown (1921)
The right thing to do is to be able to recognise generously and desirously when you see anyone doing something finely which you do badly, and to say, 'Come, that's the right way! ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)
True to her wild nature, her eyes turned desirously toward the open door. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)
Bloom stands, smiling desirously, twirling his thumbs. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
"Are you offering it to me?" asked Ambrose, eying it desirously. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)
THERE are moments when the interior man turns desirously and actively towards God, to pay Him homage, and to offer up and annihilate, in the love of God, his being and all that he can give. ❋ William Ralph Inge (1907)
"You _will_ '_ave_ it nice," said Miriam, desirously. ❋ Unknown (1906)
And as he writeth in an epistle to Eustochius, that on a time as he read on a day Plato, and in the night Tully desirously, because that the book of the prophets pleased him not, he was about mid-Lent taken with a sudden and burning fever, that all his body was cold, in such wise that there was no vital heat save a little which he felt in his breast. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
