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Prepositional phrase
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to
a
desire
(
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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