Two commandments had grown in his mind; one was a duty, the other a passionate wish.

Curious, lamentable: all these men have the word Republic on their lips; in the heart of every one of them is a passionate wish for something which he calls Republic: yet see their death-quarrel!

To bathe your face and hands in a bowl of clear water, denotes that you will soon consummate passionate wishes which will bind you closely to some one who interested you, but before passion enveloped you.

She "bombarded him with passionate daily communiques" telling him he need only accept "that which it has long been the passionate wish of my heart to give you".

His passionate wish to preserve the confidentiality of the Court conference room and his colleagues' debates was clear to all of us who were close to him.

"It is a passionate wish of mine to leave as large an endowment as possible," she said, "so that no future chief of protocol is going to have to worry about going to Congress every time they need to replace a cushion cover or change a light bulb."

To help him on his way, that old desire had been replaced with a new desire, a passionate wish for Glendalough.

It is the familiar clash between my passionate wish to be honest and my passionate wish to possess a traditional past.

I had a sudden, passionate wish to urge him to throw it all Up, turn away from it.

He found his natural jealousy of the man dissolved in a passionate wish that Wakefield could indeed give her what he himself could not.