to a desire
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English
Prepositional phrase
- (archaic) Precisely as one would wish; ideally.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west.
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