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Meanings of immense desire in English

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Usage of immense desire in English
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Rowland felt an immense desire to give him a visible, palpable pang.
Roderick Hudson
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The immense desire of my students to get back to normal is understandable.
Wired
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An immense desire has sprung up in me to have this work performed.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
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Nevertheless she felt an immense desire to hear that Isabel would go to England.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
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Vanity, however, is a sin, and I listen submissively, with an immense desire to be just.
Roderick Hudson
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Their solemnity became formidable; you heard desire, the immense desire for life, winging its flight on high.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4
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He was going to die at her feet, suffocated by the immense desire that swelled within him.
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
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And in all the world she was the only human being that could surrender it to his immense desire.
Tales of Unrest
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She had an immense desire that he should take her again in his arms and press her lips with that red voluptuous mouth.
The Magician
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Clive felt the pathetic mood coming on again, and an immense desire to hug Lady Anne in his arms, and to kiss her.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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Hence a declaration so passionate, and an appeal so full of his immense desire and need, that she was frightened, and faltered helplessly.
An Original Belle
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There is an immense desire throughout the University to hear you, and there is no such sympathetic audience as an audience of Harvard men.
The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
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Will ever my two only, immense desires-tobe celebrated and to be loved-besatisfied?
Balzac
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1 hour 15 minutes-A sudden immense desire to come out of the trance.
A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho
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"The world's very small," she said at random; she had an immense desire to appear to resist.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
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"Laure, Laure," he cries at this time, "my two only and immense desires-tobe loved and to be celebrated-willthey ever be satisfied?"
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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