| The pain of life's beauty and fleetingness was something Eliot longed to put on hold. |
| Byron always longed for adventure, but this idea just seemed foolish to him. |
| She grinned as I inconspicuously grimaced and longed to duck beneath the covers. |
| Even before the 1970s became fashionable again, I longed for shag-pile carpets, big collars, disco music and dolly birds. |
| I longed to tell them the game had most likely been made to entertain babies, but I resisted. |
| He closed his eyes tightly and longed for death, for surely he would be dead sooner or later. |
