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Sentences starting with longing

Longing for her till it became torture, he swore to himself to make her his, and share his all with her, even to the purple. [10]
Longing is one thing and reason another. [4]
Longing often urges me back to Spain like a scourge. [10]
Longing and expectation lay in every look, in the low tone of her voice, in her measured walk. [10]
Longing is also a poison for a loving heart, and its antidote is good news. [10]
Longing for what? [9]

Sentences ending with longing

His eyes dilating with hunger, he watched her preparations for his supper; and when at last--and she had been but a moment--it was placed before him, his head swam, and he turned faint with the stress of his longing. [11]
To be again with Eva under the protection of her uncle and aunt now seemed the highest goal of her longing. [10]
Believe me, you will soon learn to couple content and longing. [10]
And how fair was the forlorn bride in these days of waiting and of weary unsatisfied longing! [10]
Then every reproach was forgotten, and resentment was transformed into doubly ardent longing. [10]
The Thracian listened to the description of the new art struggling to present truth, as if these things were welcome surprises, grand revelations, for which she had waited with eager longing. [10]
He must have the entire responsibility of the expedition which he commanded; for nothing except an important duty that no one would help him bear, gave promise of making him forget everything that usually engrossed his attention, and thus his new object of longing. [10]
She would neither seek him nor strive to get possession of him, but if she could not imagine where and with what people he was living, she would die of longing. [10]
But had she permitted them to flow uncontrolled, they would have been those of wrath and insulted womanly dignity, not of grief and longing. [10]
But the remembrance of those fair days at sea fills my soul with longing. [9]

Short sentences using longing

But will longing strengthen it? [10]

Sentences containing longing two or more times

Then a longing to kill seized me, a longing so strange and fierce that I could scarce be still. [9]
I was feeling a deep, strong longing to see her--a longing so supplicating, so insistent, that it made me afraid. [5]

More example sentences with the word longing in them

He had a young sister with a remarkable voice--he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self-supporting might be gratified. [5]
You are lonely, you must be longing for some human fellowship. [6]
At last he yielded to the longing which urged him, and kissed little John--his, yes, his own son--first on his high, open brow, and then on his red lips. [10]
After so many years of waiting and longing, he was mine at last. [5]
Love continued to yearn for him even after she had sundered the bond; but he often yielded to the longing for his higher home, of whose splendours he retained a memory, and soared upward. [10]
With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
I was drunk with the thought of you, the longing for you. [11]
It fills one with sentiment and a tender longing, this voice of the tree-toad. [4]
I look forward with longing to the time when I can lay aside the cares of office--" ["dam sight," shouted a tipsy fellow near the door. [5]
Who awaited him with a longing heart? [10]
Some there were who gazed at the Rothfield with longing eyes, but who had no intention of committing social suicide. [9]
The quiet longing which had mastered him was transformed into passionate yearning, but he restrained it by exerting all the strength of will peculiar to him, for a voice within cried out that he was too insignificant for this marvellous maiden. [10]
He knew not whether he loved or hated her, but her resistance had passionately inflamed his longing to call her his. [10]
And then, too, where amongst ourselves do we find so earnest a longing and endeavor to gain freedom, the highest good, as among the animals? [10]
And yet there were times when he had an intolerable longing for a confidant, for some one to whom he could relieve himself of part of his burden by talking. [4]
The swarthy bearers were far too slow for his longing, and more than once he flung to them as much money as they were wont to earn in a week, to urge them to a brisker pace. [10]
They and he were clearly in a minority, and his deep inward longing to be with the majority was growing into an engrossing passion. [6]
Evening after evening was this other fire lighted and then put out at once; and a great longing came to him to leave this guarding of the fire, and go to her--"For half a day," he said--"just for half a day! [11]
The real thing was the soul within, the longing, loving woman whose heart was heavy and unsatisfied. [4]
The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing, so patient. [5]
A heart which was not itself languishing for love could not pour forth to another with such convincing truth, overwhelming power, and glowing fervour the ardent longing of a soul seized by the omnipotence of love. [10]
His anxious longing was mingled with regret for the lost opportunity of seeing Selene and alarm at the Emperor's prolonged absence. [10]
When my mother was gone I turned towards Virginia with longing, for I could not so soon go against her wishes and join the King's army on the Continent, and less desire had I to be a Glasgow merchant. [11]
My whole nature was filled with the longing to utilize and enjoy this brief earthly life which Feuerbach had proved was to end with death. [10]
She, however, was waiting with ardent longing for another, so her sole answer was a troubled shake of the head. [10]
Yet he struggled vainly against the longing for his dear old home. [10]
A passionate longing urged her to remove the cloth, but the boldness of the act restrained her. [10]
The old, panting, unrealized, tempestuous longing was gone. [11]
I could never understand why a people who have been grumbling about snow and frost for six months, and longing for genial weather, should flee from it as soon as it comes. [4]
A sort of undefined longing crept upon them. [5]
Was it a tortured conscience that drove him hither and thither, or was he as innocent as she was, and was it longing, love, and anxiety that bereft him of sleep? [10]
But he called too late, for the neglected wife died from the shock of her prince's longing message to her, and when, by the same mail, John York knew that, he would not go back to England to the King. [11]
It sounds mad to you of course, but there have been times when I have had a wild longing to go back to it all, to what some Gorgio writers call the pariah world--the Ishmaelites. [11]
So he used to wander to the neighborhood of the Lei, evenings, with his Zither and "Express his Longing in low Singing," as Garnham says. [5]
If we listen to the still, small voice of realism, intense longing is always followed by disappointment. [9]
Presently I ascended to the hurricane deck and cast a longing glance toward the pilot-house. [5]
She, too, went to rest in a joyous, happy mood, and, as she lay in her narrow bed, asked herself whether she could not renounce her ardent longing for wealth and splendour and be content with a modest life at Wolf's side. [10]
He was longing to relate at full length, to his friends and companions, the wonderful and important thing that had happened; but he would not approach the subject while they took their places in his presence. [10]
It was touching to read in the same confessions: "I was in a dreamy mood, and they said I must be longing for something--Paul, no doubt. [10]
It was new to him--he had never formulated it before--that pity and longing and striving were a justification and a proof. [9]
It is impossible to come into intimate relations with a large, sweet nature, such as you may often find in this class, without longing to be at one with it in all its modes of being and believing. [6]
I am longing to be at home. [10]
For the first time she felt a longing to confide her feelings to some one. [10]
Just at that time Selene also left the city, and now Arsinoe's longing for her old friends grew to a passionate craving to see them again. [10]
Heinz Schorlin gazed thoughtfully after him a short time, then beckoned to Biberli and, though the interval required for him to reach his master's side was very brief, it was sufficient for the bold young lover, tortured by his ardent longing, to form another idea. [10]
It seemed as though the longing of the whole world was flowing to him from those fresh, young, beautifully formed red lips. [10]
Now I took this well-meant warning as it was intended; and albeit Ann and I were heartsick with longing to see Herdegen and to release him from his hiding, we nevertheless took patience. [10]
And she remembered this longing and yearning in a way very unlike a mere dream. [10]
Every possible motive, then,--his interest, his jealousy, his longing for revenge, and now his fears for his own safety,--urged him to regard the happening of a certain casualty as a matter of simple necessity. [6]
I wandered through the world with longing gaze, To find her who was my hope's parallel, That to her I might all my gospel tell Of changeless love, and bid her make appraise. [11]
If power was the word, he scarcely understood how to use it aright, for wholly absorbed in himself, he led a joyless life of dissatisfied longing and gloomy reverie. [10]
Could I see the wind which had now risen stronger, and drove a few cloud-scuds across the sky, filling the night, somehow, with a longing that was not altogether born of reminiscence? [4]
He thought that the time for departure had now arrived, and an irresistible longing urged him back to the world and Daphne. [10]
She halted on the pavement, her eyes raised, heedless of passers-by, feeling within her a throb of the longing that could be so oddly and unexpectedly aroused. [9]
His house in the monastery suited his longing for rest; he obtained a position in the morocco factory in the valley below, which afforded him a support, and his daughters provided for his physical comfort. [10]
In this, for the moment, lay the end of all her longing and seeking, the fulfillment of every wish; and as the chorus shouted, "Iakchos! [10]
Every word expressed the lover's ardent longing, every line was pervaded by the passion that had filled the writer's heart. [10]
How intense was the longing which drew him after her! [10]
This has been the longing of humanity. [4]
She had broken the long silence with Josquin's motet, "Quia amore langueo," and in her quiet chamber dedicated it, as it were, to the man to whom this cry of longing had been so dear. [10]
Yet despite this, the housekeeper saw that the longing for his son was gnawing at the old man's heart, and had she been able to write she would have let Melchior know how things stood and begged him to return to Leipsic. [10]
The picture of the great, lonely house, of the ceremonious dinner which awaited her single presence, gave her an irresistible longing to sit down with these simple, kindly souls. [9]
The image of the fair, whitearmed woman recurred to his mind, and a melancholy longing began to creep over him. [10]
Helena remained on the cliff, and her longing for the old couple had materially diminished. [10]
Had longing for the changeful, exciting life of former days at last overpowered her? [10]
Still others said that the vision came but once, and then only to the sinless dying forlorn in distant lands and pitifully longing for some last dear reminder of their home. [5]
Her books bore testimony to this; for there was a look of sadness in the faces she drew, and a sense of weariness and longing for some imaginary conditions of blessedness or other, which began to be painful. [6]
Does anything really take the place of that entire ease and confidence that one has in kin, or the inborn longing for their sympathy and society? [4]
I am not sure, by the way, that the music of Richard Wagner is not highly typical of the present (1868) state of German unity,--an undefined longing which nobody exactly understands. [4]
These emotions, often suggested by some hint of beauty, as of the sun glinting on the river on a bright blue day, had a sudden way of possessing her, and the longing they induced was pain. [9]
At this a sudden fervent longing for Orion came over her. [10]
Deeply agitated, he struggled to repress his sobs as he told her that the old man's longing was fulfilled and his Saviour had summoned him. [10]
Injun Joe lay stretched upon the ground, dead, with his face close to the crack of the door, as if his longing eyes had been fixed, to the latest moment, upon the light and the cheer of the free world outside. [5]
Now indeed he stood on his own feet, and he was longing to tell Arsinoe and his parents of what he had done. [10]
When he had stilled this fervent longing he could ride with her colour on helm and shield from tourney to tourney, and break a lance for her in every land through which he passed with the Emperor. [10]
Then he would stand and look with all his eyes; and a proud light would flash from them, and his nostrils would inflate like a war-horse's, and I knew he was longing for a brush with them. [5]
Tangier is the spot we have been longing for all the time. [5]
There has been something so simple, honest, genuine, in our Munich life, that we look back to it with longing eyes from this land of fancy, of hand-organ music, and squalid splendor. [4]
But the gracious solace of tears seemed to be denied her, and her grief, like her anger, was a dull ache, longing, like that, to finish itself with a fierce paroxysm, but wanting its natural outlet. [6]
Must those who soar be condemned to eternal loneliness, and was it a longing they did not comprehend which bade them stretch their wings toward the sun? [9]
He walked on, slowly, to feel stealing on him that desperate longing for adventure which he had known so well in his younger days. [9]
Jean Jacques was silent, but in his face was the longing of a soul sick for home, of one who desires the end of a toilsome road. [11]
With a deep sigh she raised her eyes and hands to heaven, and in her longing to prove her love to every living being, nay to every created thing, her spirit sought the mighty and beneficent Power to whom she owed such exalted happiness. [10]
On the south side, by a long slope, it comes nearly to the water, and the longing that the visitor to Bar Harbor has to see the ocean is moderately gratified. [4]
If the longing should be fulfilled! [10]
He said yesterday: 'She would have sunk long ago if not kept up by her determined will, and a longing which gives her no rest. [10]
But the composure she needed for prayer was soon destroyed, for the image of the knight rose before her again and again, and it seemed as if her own name, which he had called with such ardent longing, once more rang in her ears. [10]
With eager excitement she fastened the rolls together, and on her features was depicted impatient longing to put an end to an intolerable state of things, as she exclaimed, though there was no one but herself to hear: "Ay, peace, salvation, good-will! [10]
Yet, had the shaft of Eros really struck him, how was it possible that the longing to win Ledscha back stirred so strongly within him that he finally reached a resolution concerning her? [10]
I had not seen Europe for more than half a century, and I had a certain longing for one more sight of the places I remembered, and others it would be a delight to look upon. [6]
She, too, must see this Brabant, and, like every newly awakened longing, this also quickly took possession of her whole nature. [10]
His longing to see his daughter and the desire to speak with Caesar had driven him out of the house, and Alexander had, of course, accompanied him. [10]
A longing to see Ditmar again invaded her: he would take an early train, he would be at the office by nine. [9]
Meanwhile she had scarcely noticed how high the longing for liberty was surging in the Netherland nation, and with how fierce a glow hatred of the Spanish tyrants was consuming the hearts of the people. [10]
The bitter, hard Sabina could at times let soft and tender emotions get the mastery over her, but as soon as the longing of her languishing soul for maternal happiness was gratified, she closed her heart again and extinguished the fire that had warmed it. [10]
Obada's contumely had roused Orion's wrath; he was longing, burning to reduce this insolent antagonist to silence. [10]
At times it rose, vibrant with inexpressible feeling, and fell again into gentler, yearning cadences that wrung the soul with a longing that was world-old and world-wide, that reached out towards the unattainable stare--and, reaching, became immortal. [9]
A longing for retaliation consumed her; she wished to hurt him before she left. [9]
So he must renounce his longing to see Kasana once more. [10]
We thought it prudent to dissuade her from the attempt, though it was evident her heart was longing to join in the public act of devotion and praise. [14]

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