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      Desirous has been used with both of and to for a long time:
      ... desirous at once of having her time to herself — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
      I returned to London, very desirous to see Dr. Johnson —James Boswell, Life of SamuelJohnson, 1791
      ... King William the Third was desirous to ascertain the comparative strength of the religious sects —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849
      Desirous of living on the cozy footing of a father-in-law —Herman Melville, Omoo, 1847
      In contemporary writing, while desirous to is used now and then, desirous of is the more common construction:
      They seem very desirous of getting back —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 1958
      ... poetry designed to appeal to ears desirous of rhetoric —Eric Partridge, British and American English Since 1900, 1951
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