Hal's opponents urgently desired his death, that much was clear.

He now realized clearly how strongly he had desired her death.

Go, leave me, I am very far from desiring your death.

After a moment he added, "Someone must truly desire my death.

'And I know not why you should desire my death.'

Among the men before him would be many who would desire his death.

But there might have been some deep psychological reason for his desiring his father's death.

Madame (or so the world would say) had got a motive for desiring her death.

Such words are used by some when they desire people's death.

Yet who else could have desired her death?