Covets

Usage examples of wants.

After this I could not resist any longer, and I gave her back those objects so precious to a nun who wants to sacrifice on the altar of Venus.

Is it not strange that there is a time during which God wants us to amuse ourselves almost to frenzy, and another during which, in order to please Him, we must live in complete abstinence?

But I am afraid I shall be obliged to cheat the Jew, who wants me to give him three thousand sequins for this ring, as I know it is only worth one thousand.

He wishes to give us a surprise, and would be obliged if you would lend him the room to have a set of disguises made, and to ensure secrecy he wants you to let have the same waiting-maid.

He does not intend to publish a libellous pamphlet upon you, but to accuse you before the courts, alleging that he wants reparation for the wrongs you have done his person, his honour, and his life, for he says you are killing him by a slow poison.

On the other hand if he wants to go away, let him say where, and I will pay his journey-money this evening.

A visit to a dancer, a brute professing to be a nobleman, who insults her in my presence, who wants to kill her, who allows her to be carried off in his very teeth, and whose only opposition is to give me an appointment!

He wants his case to be re-tried, and there he makes a mistake, for if it were heard a hundred times the sentence would continue the same.

A prudent young man wants to know the character of a girl before he marries her, for it is neither money nor beauty which can ensure happiness in married life.

She wants me to return with her to the convent in three days, as she thinks I have an incurable dropsy.

He says that your king is a great man, and that he wants to make peace with the world.

He wants to find the other Eye so that he can be with me forever, just the two of us.

He wants to live with Cassandra forever, Sir Lukien, and he thinks the amulet will let him.

It was unearthed and smuggled out of Egypt by an American archeologist, and Egypt wants it back.

I respect and admire your uncle, and I hope to work with him for a long time to come, but there are times when a man has to go after what he wants and damn the consequences.