Maybe a desire to see the man's animals remain where they were?
The desire remains, he said, but the ability to fulfill it diminishes.
"Age makes us stop smoking, but the desire remains," he noted.
The desire among many Indians to be free from foreign rule remained.
"Our desire has been from the beginning and remains today to reach a negotiated agreement," he said.
If any desires remained in him, then they were simply to lie there for ever.
Yet, life and the feral desire to kill still remained.
But his desire for studies remained not any longer unfulfilled.
He dared not pause to question by what miracle the desire remained.
There remains among some members of the public a serious desire for revenge if the two young men are living in the community.