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Sentence Examples Selina ignored him, but I thought I could detect a hint of longing in the way she fingered the whip looped at her belt. Between them, racism and migration had ensured that my longing for a sense of belonging would in all likelihood not be satisfied by geography. Rather something arouses us and accustoms our appetites and our desires to that which expands our longing. Young adolescent boys are aroused by sexual imagery, and they burn with longing for sexual contact. What does transpire, then, is a genuine tale of loss, loneliness, and a wrenching longing for personal redemption. The seven surviving letters from the period detail these attempts and betray unfulfilled longing. The longing for a proper home grows stronger and stronger with each passing day. I personally feel there is a deep longing for intimacy and friendship among the young. Genesis 2 implies that God made humanity male and female to satisfy the human longing for companionship. The longing for comfort, for deep intimacy, impels the divorced to rush back into a married state. Her poetry is nostalgic and betrays her own longing for her beloved homeland. Of course, there are a lot more pratfalls, comedic lines, wacky mishaps and longing glances, but you get the picture. Aspirations and longing feelings colour your reasoning but your power of concentration might be impaired. Being famous for something just isn't necessary in his rather longing eyes. Trey smiled at her apologetically before turning and shooting a longing glance over his shoulder. Throwing my own vehicle a last, longing glance in the Ford tester parking lot, I resigned myself to a long week. She cast one more longing look at the tempting bed before she walked to the window. Sarah would shoot longing looks and bright smiles in Ryan's direction, and Ryan would never notice. However, that didn't stop her from throwing longing glances at it over her shoulder as she continued on. I saw him because I understood exactly what was being reflected in that longing gaze of his. Show More Sentences She gazed back at the couple in her rear view mirror, a wistful, longing expression in her blue-green eyes. After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come. He gave her one last longing glance, grabbed his duster, and walked out the door. Prayer meetings are moving where there is a longing desire and yearning for answers from heaven. Monday's sharp stock market plunge and uncertain world events may have you longing for a secure place to stash your savings. This is music of longing, menace, and rue, often spiced with mordant or grisly humor. Is it a longing for lost youth, a remembrance of a time of discovery when emotions were running out of control? She hadn't done it in such a long time and she was longing for it as though it was the breath of life. I received some wonderful love letters from him, but they only increased my longing for him and the despair I felt. He's at peace now, free of pain, free of the longing for supernatural rescue. He bore no malice, his aura was tinged slightly with regret, pain and longing. With a single drawn-out look of longing, Cserhalmi conveys an unworldly tenderness with his deeply penetrating eyes. The women are also driven by the longing to be beautiful, which goes hand-in-hand with the desire to be a fine dancer. He'd never seen, never imagined, the like of this moment, and a vast, inarticulate longing seized him. This year the lament and longing for the South, now standing so battered by Hurricane Katrina, strikes me with unusual poignancy. The strong feeling of love and the longing to commit is perfectly conveyed in marriage. There is always a vague feeling of inertia, a longing to go back to a country they have never seen. My longing for something I apparently can't have is draining me and sending me into spirals of self-loathing. He isn't happy to find himself outside his native realm, speaking a foreign language, but his homesick longing takes the form of self-reproach. How tiresome it must be, to reduce the essential story of the world to nothing by a case of unrequited longing. Show More Sentences There is no need to talk to understand the longing Serbs feel for a new role in the European family of nations. If we lose the vigor and intensity of our youth, or from overwork, we become drained, exhausted, burned out, longing for the vigor of old. We tossed and turned, followed by long embracement like we've been longing for each other throughout our whole lives. As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape. If you're anything like me, you'll be longing for the winter to come to an end and looking forward to getting outside and enjoying the spring. Plunging from his cheetah-drawn chariot, Bacchus looses arrows of longing from his eyes at Ariadne, and transfixes her in mid-flight. This could have been a dark novel where guilt, longing and desire transgress accepted boundaries. I think our misty-eyed longing for the high streets of our youth may be overly nostalgic. But how do you get someone to see all the love and longing lurking behind pimples, blackheads and misty specs? I was secretly longing for a bunch of mooks to jump around the stage again. The guards behind her had long since left and Ashley stared at the entrance with longing. It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing. It communicates a tremendous sense of calm, love, and longing for the infinite. The terror of, and yet longing for return to, this figure accounts for the repression of this figure into the unconscious. There are very few people who do not look back to the past with a sense of longing or forward to the future with a sense of unease. According to Western tradition, poetry originates from the poet's passionate but necessarily unfulfilled longing for his muse. They consider the monsoon a season of separation from the loved one, of nostalgia and nameless longing. As he left, he cast one last, longing glance in her direction, receiving nothing in exchange but the same cold, vacant stare from her. At last, the longing of the Viennese for a garden has merged with the vision of living in the clouds. Snow wouldn't have been out of place and I remember always longing for a white Christmas. Show More Sentences Coetzee presents a tensely connected web of longing that pulses with meaning and can be read at any number of levels. As she cuts through layers of truths and half-truths, the author reveals a cycle of pain and longing that spans three generations of women. As she enters her 40s with a new husband and two stepchildren, she isn't longing for the days of her youth and hopes other women aren't either. He had a positive relationship with his stepfather, although the longing for his real father never abated. All one's endless longing for life's pleasures are stilled on the shores of the Arabian Sea. With much heart-searching, not to say longing, I was suffering from severe withdrawal symptoms. Without longing, we are empty, emotionless shells, mere objects floating on the wishy-washy surface of life. The kiss we share is simple and chaste, yet beneath it runs a current of longing and desire borne of our time apart. It's a natural longing of the human heart to care for and cherish your child. She was suddenly assailed by a stomach churning feeling of homesickness, a longing for something familiar. Are you stuck in a rut, longing to be creative but unable to break free from the humdrum routine of your daily job? Months later Earl is still reliving the event in a paroxysm of fury, disgust, and hopeless longing. Walking through the garden afterwards, she felt the usual feeling on their parting, fear and longing. She became the comic symbol of the longing for grace and beauty that is in some way shared by everyone who is clumsy and shy and ill-favored. How could you turn your affection to a man that so ill-used you when I was always there longing for you? The quote comes from a lecture in which he tackles the saudade, or deep longing, that infuses fado with its bitter sweetness. There is no need to talk to understand the longing they feel for a new role in the European family of nations. We saw that the one student had beautifully articulated a longing that many students inchoately shared. This engendered a longing for normalcy, a sense of fatalism and passivity, but, ironically, also a willingness to take risks. Nothing seems to contradict the longing for warmth and companionship more than a multiplex. Show More Sentences He pulled her into his arms and kissed her with a feverous ardor that he had been longing to express every single moment that they were apart. Love, pain, longing and devotion are written across her face in a flash, sometimes in the same instant. Intriguingly, the novel expresses no particular longing for him to have succeeded in any sense of the term. But the meeting had shaken Damon to the core and had made him remember his own longing for Death. His fingers flittered down her face, feeling the same emotion that he had since the moment he met her, longing, love. The nation is behaving like a medieval village, dressing up for the short flying visit of the king, desperately longing for attention. The conspiracy theory that logically follows from Darren's findings is so delicious that I find myself longing for it to be true. Therefore, bemoaning the past or longing for a return of foregone days in some way denies the person one already is. Just the thought of that garden, I admit, fills me with something crackling and sharp, an electric kind of longing. The 9-year-old girl now has the furry, four-legged friend she had been longing for. If you're familiar with the band's first album, you'll find yourself longing for the harsh fuzz of blown-out guitar. He was truthfully longing to sit in the King's throne, a large ornate thing, ebony and mahogany edged with gold and silver. A remarkable number of these programs end up with a kind of populist longing for Gemeinschaft amid the alienating Gesellschaft of modernity. They alternate puerile lyrics and gnarly riffs with solemn songs about loss and longing. There was such longing and loneliness buried deep within those depthless eyes as there had never been before. There is no sense of self-pity or desperate longing for the outside world, tempting as that must be. There's also, correct me if I'm wrong, a slight but detectable element of sadness or longing in the images. His parents split up when he was young and his mother never drove, meaning that to indulge his longing for adventure he had to use his pushbike. It is the prayerful longing of people everywhere for universal peace and fraternity. People walked drearily through the wet streets with dull Sunday faces, longing for all to be over. Show More Sentences As I walk down the stairs, my feet cold and longing for my blanket, I hear the static of the radio changing. This longing for joy is not a vestigial structure in a once functional lobe of our primordial brains that has become atrophied due to disuse. During the mid section of the morning I was able to abate my longing for biscuits by eating a slice of homemade fruit cake. Journey on where flowers stay abloom until each lover has cast his kisses on longing lips-parted like hills with deep valleys. So I watch the clock, longing for lunch hour, when I might be able to run an errand or at least do some yoga. He sounded so woeful, his expression so longing, that I had felt sympathy for him. The wanderer is like a dehydrated traveller in a waterless desert, or a lover longing to see the distant beloved. This nettles her at first and gradually the anger and irritation give way to a secret longing for him to look at her. To do so is to embrace an agonistic romanticism of perpetually unfulfilled longing and desire. Her longing to reassert control over her body deepened after a series of stillbirths and miscarriages left her with only one healthy child, Elma. In terms of character, although Robert takes the lead in seducing Francesca, his longing is reciprocated throughout. It has a wistful quality, a longing for a world gone never to return, which an author of Sampson's vintage can and should be excused. It's fun, it puts you back in control but you're still left longing for a manual box for the country roads. Maybe it's me seeing his work and longing for publications, zines, comics, and ephemera I grew up with. It is a longing for a church that raises up leaders who recognize that leading and listening are not mutually exclusive. What motivates Maurice is not lechery but a yearning envy of Jessie's youth and a longing for his own. For the shopaholic, there's an endless search for objects to satisfy a sense of inner longing or hunger. At least some of them must have experienced a bit of filial affection that they had been longing to get when he said he was to be treated like their son. She had a longing look on her face as she stared at the dress. His life is saturated by tragedy, culminating in a hermitic existence spent waiting for the death that will free him from the tortured longing for Herman. Show More Sentences Suddenly Guinevere was overtaken by an intense longing for companionship. Modernism may have been a heady project, but it could never escape the paradoxical longing to become museum classics. Others have indulged their longing for herstories of powerful women, and in the process constructed theories about the benevolent, matriarchal exercise of power. But for much of the country, these fleeting moments of wistful longing happen in the everyday-low-prices aisles of Walmart. It makes me feel sort of hopeful, and I have a wistful sort of longing for it. Maybe it is about trying to satisfy a deep longing in the wrong ways. Their university days are always recalled with a nostalgic longing. He was filled with a longing for God's glory and for spiritual blessing. Even Escovedo's own record company casually tosses off buzzwords like loss, longing and regret in his bio, but he says it is wrong to typecast him as a rather glum fellow. As the process of globalization draws us ever closer in networks of communication and exchange, there is an understandable longing for simplicity, clarity and certainty. In the Faustian pact, where desire and longing is transformed into a new kind of sublimation, the infernal process of turning images of reality into fantasy begins. The woman's double exposure, to the physical longing of the man and to the insistent gaze of the narrator, places her in a typically subordinate and powerless position. Emily's dark eyes are huge in the faded lamplight, and her gaze is one of undisguised longing, something I never, ever thought I would see directed at me. Pain tortured every nerve and sinew in his body, and there were times of terrible collapse, when he was conscious of nothing save an intense longing to sink into the grave. The longing for things past is quelled by the freshness of the moment. Rebecca looked up into his eyes as he took one last longing look at her. With one last longing glance to the colorful forests, I followed. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. The result is a portrait haunted by longing and unfulfilled desire. After one last longing look at a photo, he blew out the candles. Show More Sentences It's a terrible, infantile longing for really childish flavours. Many of the poems are diagrams and puzzles that seek to look at love, womanhood, motherhood, and the longing for God in new ways. I can fully understand the longing every parent must feel to build their first snowman for their wide-eyed kiddies as they see snow for the first time. In unwitnessed trauma, survivors' expectation that they will not be believed nor have even the right to be believed comes to silence their longing to be believed. A connoisseur of thrift stores and swap meets, she understands the collector mentality, the longing to affiliate and define oneself through things. Our lips meet in a deep soulful kiss filled with passion and longing. Inevitably, some foreign dealers moaned about the typical New York rawness of the make-do floors and walls of Piers 90 and 92, longing for a formal exhibition hall. We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty. The longing for a product that we have not yet experienced strikes some primeval need, particularly in Americans. Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith. On the one side, there is envy, shame, inadequacy, longing, deprivation, and a sense of being left out. His judgments are not rash or driven by insecurity, fear, and a longing for the past. It featured individuals and families who, because of divorce, bereavement, illness or some other trauma, had allowed their homes to become mausoleums of loss and longing. He very insistently talks about what he calls Alexander's longing. When he saw the look of longing in her eyes towards the kiss Blake was sharing with his girlfriend his jaw tightened and he felt a sharp stab of jealousy. Robert is longing for the cooler weather of fall, but I'm looking forward to the transition of the window boxes from caladiums to pansies, cheerful but short. And when he looked back with longing it was Duval who helped him re-create the joy he had experienced there. When we forget that our longing for the good and the true is grounded in the beautiful, the spiritual life degenerates into moralism and perfectionism. How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces? It contains strong elements of sentimentality and a longing for the past. Show More Sentences It was about the hope and longing for redemption and reconciliation that lies somewhere within each of us. Her daily missives chronicle the longing and insecurity that often befall long-distance relationships and eventual breakups. De Niro's performance communicates his longing for normalcy so well that the movie doesn't need Bassett as the moral balance who tells him to quit jacking diamonds. And of course I loved the Lancelot story because it is all about longing and unrequited love. These Old Testament believers are pronouncing their longing for vindication and judgment in the name of Jehovah the righteous one, and in vivid poetic language. I was suffering from cabin fever and longing for some peace and quiet. The familiar feelings of longing returned, and his heart ached for her. Despite constant pressure from New York City media and fans longing for an NBA championship after a 30-year drought, Thomas waxes positive on his team and his position. This series of sonnets instantiates the physical nearness and reality of that satisfied love, rather than the distant longing of the courtly tradition. But I'd always look away from the sparkling party and see a thin girl leaning on the doorpost, her eyes hidden under shadows and watching me with a longing gaze. And there is Simon, the male escort, who finds himself fighting against the longing he long ago swore off. In the Yahwist's version of the creation story in Genesis 2-3, longing for companionship between the sexes emerges even more centrally as the fundamental theme. What made more sense than to sing a niggun, a tune of longing and exaltation? But, intimately acquainted with the Kirshner world through his familial ties, Andras's repugnance is complicated by a potent blend of envy, exile, and secret longing. Lowering her longing eyes from Philip's splendid home, Agnes turned down a narrow alley-like road squeezed between a storehouse and a two-storey building. One would only hope that such seasoned cinema vets would produce material that might whet one's libido, or at least take a novel approach to fleshly longing. It did not seem at all incongruous, either, that these people who watched him by with scorn and longing and utter revilement, these were the people that he would fight for. The tribune of adolescent sensitivity and longing has suddenly transformed into a macho bully. When it looks up at the stars, then closes its eyes, shutting itself off from its surroundings, it evokes in the viewer a longing for the infinite. A longing for the Sourwood honey his family produced led him to enroll in a beginning beekeepers course. Show More Sentences Westin's advocacy of holistic well-being taps into a real longing in people to live their lives with less burnout and more aliveness. It requires him to let go of Lori and his longing for the past. Innovative and impressive, Ozeal launched a new series of glasses for those who is longing for a nerdy look on Pi Day. The most renowned is Fado, a melancholy urban music originating in Lisbon, usually associated with the Portuguese guitar and saudade, or longing. A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering. Whenever I was in deep thought in the stillth of a night in longing for the mainland, it seemed that a voice was calling in the dark. Her friend threw the novels rather a longing look, then turned strongmindedly to the cabinet of belles lettres. Step forward America's worst-looking glamour girl Kendra Whatsername, the wimpish loser the baying viewers were longing for. This longing for grimness actually has its own portmanteau word, ostalgie. In other words, Lewis Platonizes Child Christopher by supplying the true object to the longing he finds in Morris's work. That is to say, there is much longing in the hearts of Americans. And shocked a Sherman Oaks community longing for the ZZ Top-like hot-rodder perched each evening with a copy of your favorite news mag or paper. When he closed his eyes to pray for his comrades and his cybercongregation, he felt himself nodding and his brain longing for sleep. Under pressure of immense silence and longing, the ground upheaves with the unspoken. It's a double process of identity formation and re-formation, drawing upon and calling out the power of longing among people. The motivation of orthorexics stems from a longing to feel pure, healthy and natural by pursuing a rigidly healthy diet. Michelle's longing for structure indicates a certain infantilism with which entity theorists approach weight loss. Father hunger is the deep, but often unconscious, longing young men, and even older men, have for affirmation from male authority figures. And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor. The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put. Show More Sentences The doctor's recommended low-carb diet meant that the patient would be longing for his morning bagel. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself. I was longing to return and it was just a question of how it was to be managed. Similar to these were songs with nostalgic texts about longing for the Old Country. It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat. The hackee looked soyned and tried to scyle. I belabored him and he cleped, making vigorous oppugnation, and evidently longing for divagation. After spending her first professional years with Royal New Zealand Ballet, North Carolina native Sara Havener was longing to dance closer to home. Best known for her found object media sculptures that reflect the past and memory, Kokin addresses various aspects of the human condition and longing for days gone by. I had once before visited these three villages, Skedans, Tanoo and Cumshewa. The bitter-sweet of their overwhelming loneliness created a longing to return to them. When the European leg of the Cry of Love tour began, Hendrix was longing for his new studio and creative outlet, and was not eager to fulfill the commitment. Whereas the inherited tones were of adoration, painful unrequitedness, and romantic longing, his are of emotional turmoil, intellectual hesitancy, and irony. Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure. If you've been longing for the Cronenberg who was the master of body horror, missing in action since eXistenZ, he's resurrected himself by transferring. Irish-inspired reels, haunting hymns, furious fiddle tunes and lovely laments of loss and longing, all orchestrated and harmonized to a fare-thee-well. The movement appealed to the revolutionary spirit of America as well as to those longing to break free of the strict religious traditions of early settlement. But a longing for something even more complex led me to add a pinch of chili powder and a cinnamon stick, a nod to the tradition in parts of Mexico. And forward spurred his mounture fierce withal, Within his arms longing his foe to strain, Upon whose helm the heavy blow did fall, And bent well-nigh the metal to his brain. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. Examples from Classical Literature Her consciousness of wrong warmed her heart toward her absent husband, and filled it with longing to reconsecrate herself to him. She had a kind of a longing to see them, as if her life would be completer after. This afternoon, tired of scheming and conceiting for the future, I had a longing to be frivolous and care-free. Only the restlessness, the inappeasable longing in her heart had not changed. There would always be a longing cry in her heart that would refuse to be stilled. Oddly enough, thought of her now filled him with a vibrancy, with a longing. He understood their longing to do something worthwhile, and their embarrassment at their ineptness. Daman looked at them mutely and ardently, as if consumed by an unspeakable longing. Little Lilly tried to amuse me with her dolls and music box, but my heart was longing for grandpa, Charley and Bob. The queen did not want to recognize Assad but the woman in her is consumed with longing for him. So he adorned that part of the forest, longing, like a yogin, for complete detachment. There must be a reason for this, which is that the soul has an intuitional longing for the other world which is destined for it. She experienced a longing for the sympathy and support of Mr Jenkinson Neeld. With longing, yet with dread, she waited for the sound of Stephen's latchkey. With hearts that burned with longing for their father and their friends, did Finola and her brothers reach the sea of moyle. Rico started off, as if driven by the longing that now took possession of him. It was done, and Lucy Ann looked at herself with a smile all suffused by love and longing. Many such, and many far more painful, tears of longing, have fallen upon the dark web of my life. Then, characteristically, he dismissed the vain longing and bent to the business in hand. What has the world been waiting and longing and pining for but the lop-eared guinea-pig? Show More Sentences She had come to Chicago to be with it, and it had deserted her, leaving in its place a painful longing, an unresigned despair. When she turned her mare toward Lynbrook, the longing to see Amherst was again uppermost. The moss served to calk the rude vessel of the first French colonists, longing for home. And who ever read Thackeray without feeling the greatest longing to see the world which he decries? She even had to suppress the half-formed longing that it might always be so. Quit the drivel of matinee idol longing, and get onto the stage of life and get the bouquets for yourself. We had reached the city of Meshed, for the sight of which I had been longing. But now he comprehended the unmeasurable longing that had, for the time, banished every other consideration from the younger man. No comfort did the words of the Sun God bring to the longing soul of Demeter. Now, I can never recall hearing any man, young or old, express a longing to denude other men of their apparel. She accounted to herself for this longing, she even explained it scientifically. He assured them he was longing for the time when he should see them all in the ancient Castle of bialystok. But now Patricia confessed to a restless longing for the sight of city streets and the brabble of city noises. He knew a longing to give, a passion to protect her, a whelming desire to have shy secrets with this slim girl. I went on in my laudatives, to procure the greater longing, that an ardent desire might stir up an emacity, to the furtherance of my proposed end. It is said that many children who live in the Central Provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. She itched all over, longing to break loose and gad all the time, as father Coupeau said. Her forlorn soul must have gaged his distress by the measure of her own sorrowful longing. The following morning early we rowed away again, full of longing, but not of hope, of reaching one or other of the guacharo caves. Once it was that he had felt a sudden great longing for the life of a gay city. Show More Sentences And an immense sadness, mingled with an immense, but chaotic, longing invaded him. Wade's unbelieving surprise, dwelt at length upon his enjoyment of Fallon's band and his longing to blow a cornet. She could not doubt the fierce longing that seethed in his veins. Calypso found him there, sitting alone, weeping and longing for his home. He looked with a certain longing at the bag of camphor balls. Because your boarder is charming, and I am longing to enjoy her. Her heart ached at the word, ached with the longing for rest and peace. She felt a great longing that Father Antoine should recollect her. He atoned for this unconsciously by the longing calculations he made. Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional intense longing. I am swept away and overwhelmed by some chimeric longing that has no name. Between his love for Jasey and his longing for a house that is calm, Gavin spends as much time there as possible. And are you still longing for your freedom so much, cockatoo? She watches him covertly, uneasily, longing for the end of the run. Then we bounded from the ground, for our hearts were fierce with hate and with longing to avenge the terrors we had borne. After scuffling and separating, they gazed up at me with silent longing. She was no sensualist, longing to drowse sleepily in the lap of luxury. Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train. We've spent our time hand-holding, taking long and longing walks by Roath Park Lake and playing Boggle into the night. Tucking her son Tait into bed one night, for the very first time, his mum Reama Sherman heard the words she had been longing for all his life. Show More Sentences There was a mutinous leap of the heart then, a beating of wings against the door of the cage, a longing for the freedom of the big world outside. There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips. Once more may the rustling of the shower refresh our longing ears! He is longing for a chance, I am sure, and you give us the Highland fling. Moreover, I had an insatiate longing to make something of myself. Jorden's heart ached with longing to instill some kind of joy into him. It struck a note she never knew, and wakened her to life and longing. The temptation of his longing seemed more than he could long withstand. However we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won Than women's are. Restore her safe and unhurt to these longing, faithful arms! She was longing to see her mother and Mollie and Betty Ashton. I have written with prayerful longing because I know the lumberjacks. Tip listened closely, yet with an unsatisfied longing in his eyes. It is his to paint the unslaked thirst and the unstilled longing. That winter passed with Mary in vain longing and vainer hopes. Soprano Julianne Baird's singing paints these songs of love and longing with a sunny girlishness. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. Yet withal there was a sense of longing to protect and shield him. Why, I've been longing for years to learn how peeper frogs peep. The look of pensiveness on Joes face changed into one of longing. Show More Sentences He sat, as usual, by himself, with his harp on his knee and a great longing in his heart. A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter. Find more words! 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