I had a sort of vague desire to examine his hands and see if they were of flesh and blood, like other men's.

He looked down, feeling a vague desire for her, but he had doused his earlier fierceness.

There were truths and wonders to be grasped, if he could only throw off this wistful vague desire.

A vague desire to justify himself ruffled her father.

Their nearest approach to a common emotion at that moment was a final anxiety for their instruments, a vague desire for a last check.

He expressed a sweeping, but extremely vague, desire for "comprehensive reforms" that would "fundamentally change the way business is done in Albany."

He had no particular destination, nothing but a vague desire to see how far up the Mississippi he could go and still encounter troops.

It is rather a question of nipping in the bud any vague desires which nations might have to oppose the destruction of their identity.

It is unacceptable that, despite the declarations and the vague desire for sanctions, nothing has ended up being done.

In reality, there is nothing other than vague desires to escape from the American yoke, against which intense diplomatic activity was directed.