But, for the modern Episcopalian, the country parson is probably an ideal figure, remote and more longed for than experienced. |
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But her determination has won through and while Grace will sadly never meet her father, Mrs Scott has the baby she longed for. |
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As the tiny girl's condition worsened, the Proctors longed for a donor to help give their daughter a fresh chance. |
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Ever longed for that in-between meals treat, but don't want to ruin a healthy appetite for punk rock? |
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Her blue jeans were beginning to grow damp and she longed for the feel of dry clothes and a warm blanket. |
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Johnny, wishing to relieve the ache in his feet, longed for the beautiful palfrey that had once been his to ride whenever he wished. |
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Oh how I longed for a platform indicator that actually told you when the next train was due, not just where it was going. |
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How he longed for the summer when they would both jet off to Italy for their special times together. |
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I've always longed for a sweet and affectionate, yet unbelievably cool, nickname. |
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It was not much more than a shack but soon they were joined by local women who had longed for the day when a convent would be opened. |
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I longed for a digital system that would hold the information from the letters and leave paper and dust behind. |
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I longed for my parents to hire a horse-drawn cab instead of a taxi but that did not happen. |
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They do not understand how much I long for it, how I have longed for it ever since I was a girl. |
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She laughs and says she has longed for the ring for a great time and wished to take it. |
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Maria longed for a larger, less isolated life that included people and domesticated animals, fat curly terriers or blue-eyed huskies. |
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But its producers are banking on the Chardonnay becoming the miracle longed for by the calorie-counting female wine-bar generation. |
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I longed for mum to get this box of chocolates, but not because I had a palate advanced enough to enjoy bitter, dark langue-du-chat chocolates. |
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Secretly Henrietta longed for a cat, a sweet gray tabby with little paws and doleful eyes who she could share her life long secrets with. |
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This fear is what keeps me from loving and receiving the love my heart has longed for since birth. |
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As soon as I stepped outside, I longed for the warmth of the convenience store again. |
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Byron always longed for adventure, but this idea just seemed foolish to him. |
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He closed his eyes tightly and longed for death, for surely he would be dead sooner or later. |
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Even before the 1970s became fashionable again, I longed for shag-pile carpets, big collars, disco music and dolly birds. |
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He longed for a strong dictator and the security of the old religion, without the injustices of the old order. |
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Seated on her bench beneath the wide, cloudless bay, she would never admit that she longed for the messy logistics of a man. |
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The contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered. |
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His report was never going to be the searing, damning indictment some had longed for. |
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Like many children of his age, he longed for the freedom and excitement of owning his own go-kart. |
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His successor wrote that the Church was the mouthpiece of humanity in the pure state, a humanity that longed for peace and needed peace. |
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Those that by their wish, their dream, have one day longed for an otherness without which the world would be inhabitable! |
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Jesus called those who hungered for righteousness, and longed for spiritual understanding. |
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Our friend longed for his family and the process began more than two years ago to re-unite them. |
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I longed for its lissome grace to be blown by the wind into my body. |
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A ghost story set in medieval times with screaming heroines and handsome knights, it was aiming at the market that longed for a return to more rural, gentler times. |
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I longed for you, I worshipped you at your feet, come to me my rock star. |
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They missed dancing and many longed for opportunities to dance as few were provided. |
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And finally, after all the works are over, we will be in the arms of our ever longed for Lord, and enjoy the glory of Heaven. |
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The moment of death was not a moment of fear, but it was the moment of meeting with the Lord they had longed for. |
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Harley, 14, longed for the comfort of his imprisoned mother and struggled to control his anger and to stay out of jail himself. |
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I longed for Pamela and Clarissa to spring up and dash off protesting letters. |
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For years he had longed for his friendship with this woman to become something more, and having recently gathered up the nerve to court her, his wishes had been granted. |
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This visit to North Korea, so much longed for and at last realised, has left me with many questions. |
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He simply asks to be longed for and waits patiently to establish His dwelling in us because God lives wherever He is allowed to enter. |
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Harry has longed for his parents ever since they were killed while protecting him from the evil Valdemort. |
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I longed for the psychological security of my Marks and Sparks' twinset. |
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If you've longed for a particular kind of snowball bush you've admired from a distance but can't find it at a store or in a catalog, ask permission to take a stem cutting. |
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I even longed for the real Australian rubbish in other families' yards, like the stack of 'dead marines' waiting for the bottle-oh on the back porch. |
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People who longed for a more thorough introduction of Reformation principles during the reigns from Henry VIII to James I heavily relied on the Old Testament. |
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Conservatives longed for the return of a healthy system of independent party politics, freed from the buccaneering methods of an autocratic prime minister and his retainers. |
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She longed for the free time that she'd once thought so indifferently of. |
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They have longed for it through the generations, and have persistently prayed to obtain it. |
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The men were so worn out that they longed for death to end their dreadful suffering. |
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But deep inside he knew the truth was he longed for one last great adventure. |
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I longed for achievements, to be influential — that, in particular. |
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Ward and Marshman proved to be the sort of yokefellows that the forty-year-old Carey had longed for since he arrived in Bengal. |
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In jazzier compositions you longed for an improviser's spontaneity and development rather than a decorousness better suited to a fern-throttled piano bar. |
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In the two hundred and fifty-six years since, trapped in my moldering Body by the terrifying circumstances of my departure from this Life, my Soul has longed for freedom. |
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Mrs. Banda now has the credit line she longed for. |
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Giese's entrepreneurial streak began after a frustrating stint as a stockbroker where he longed for greater sway over the companies he was working with. |
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They longed for the gorgeous, licentious place their memories turned into paradise. The fact is that in the 18th century and today, Venice would win the title of bronchitis capital of the world if such a contest existed. |
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Europeans who had suspected that America's new economy was largely a bubble had longed for the day when they could gloat over America's misfortunes. |
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Each of his self-portraits, with steadily silvering hair and whitening skin, showed him progressing as inevitably as his numbers into the infinity he longed for. |
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While the peoples of the region longed for peace, security and democracy and fought to throw off corrupt totalitarian regimes, they did not wish to surrender to the occupier or sacrifice their cultural identity. |
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In their context of national division the churches have turned for inspiration to the prophet Ezekiel, who also lived in a tragically divided nation and longed for the unity of his people. |
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Many peoples have longed for freedom and democracy. |
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The citizens in the East longed for our political system in the West, even though weaknesses in our system were subject to hefty criticism in some of our own programming. |
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The vision which many Torres Strait Islanders have longed for has been for an autonomous Torres Strait Region One reason that we want to have greater autonomy is because we want to be empowered to look after our own affairs. |
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There can be no military solution to the tragedy of Burundi: negotiation, and the honouring of existing commitments, are the only possible way to restore the peace so longed for by the people. |
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A serene joy came over us when, during the course of the prayer, we heard abundant rain beginning to fall: the first rain, so longed for after several months of drought. |
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When the Church speaks of hope she surely does not intend to deny the truth and power of hope nor overlook those hopes longed for by the whole of humanity, at times strongly expressed, at other times hidden or even unknown. |
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On February 13th, 1848, Marianna fulfilled the sacrifice her heart longed for. She went back to the boarding-school at Vimercate, as an aspirant, feeling the call towards a religious fife. |
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He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again. |
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But she longed for home and another New York agency was courting her. |
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When Tannie McGregor left a book club in Houston, Texas, she longed for a new reading family. |
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At a new school where nobody knows she's had gender reassignment surgery, she hopes to finally live the normal life she's longed for, happy in her own skin. |
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Since graduating from Ole Miss several years ago, I have longed for the cheese-stuffed manicotti and marinara sauce of Old Venice Pizza on the Square in Oxford. |
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As I grew up I longed for a record player of my own but knew it was out of the question though I did have a transistor radio bought me on my thirteenth birthday. |
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While not everyone reading this will identify with my dream-like loopiness, many of you have probably longed for a better sleep, often for that reason. |
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