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DESIROUS

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desirous adjectiv

desirous of doritor de, amator de, însetat după, dornic de;

desirous to doritor să / de a.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

On the other side, after having seen all the curiosities of the island, I was very desirous to leave it, being heartily weary of those people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

As we were all very grateful to him, and all desirous to show that we were, as well as the hurry and disorder of our spirits would permit, I dare say we should all have gone, but that it was necessary for Agnes to return to her father, as yet unable to bear more than the dawn of hope; and for someone else to hold Uriah in safe keeping.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Desirous of Mr. Morland's assistance, as well in giving encouragement, as in finding conversation for her guest, whose embarrassment on his father's account she earnestly pitied, Mrs. Morland had very early dispatched one of the children to summon him; but Mr. Morland was from home—and being thus without any support, at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

She had taken care to have the intelligence conveyed to herself, as soon as it was known that the ceremony was over, as she was desirous that Marianne should not receive the first notice of it from the public papers, which she saw her eagerly examining every morning.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Mrs. Rushworth acknowledged herself very desirous that her son should marry, and declared that of all the young ladies she had ever seen, Miss Bertram seemed, by her amiable qualities and accomplishments, the best adapted to make him happy.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

However, he would, as he said, debate the matter no farther, because he was more desirous to know my own story, the country where I was born, and the several actions and events of my life, before I came hither.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

It was an office in short, from which, unwilling to give Edward the pain of receiving an obligation from HER, she would have been very glad to be spared herself;— but Colonel Brandon, on motives of equal delicacy, declining it likewise, still seemed so desirous of its being given through her means, that she would not on any account make farther opposition.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Catherine, interested at once by her appearance and her relationship to Mr. Tilney, was desirous of being acquainted with her, and readily talked therefore whenever she could think of anything to say, and had courage and leisure for saying it.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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