35 Metaphors for longing

Emma Long would have been no doubt a good, a very good wife for him.

Moreover, besides the probability of his imagination having been early tinged with the sullen hue of the local traditions, it is remarkable, that the longest of his juvenile poems is an imitation of the manner of the Homer of Morven.

The longest and strongest of all the bones is the femur, or thigh bone.

Emma Long was not a hypocrite at heart, but she had an almost superhuman power of acting.

But as for ye, come tell mehow long will ye be slaves?

"Cain" and "Manfred" are regarded as almost blasphemous, though probably not so meant to be by the poet, in view of the stirring questions of Grecian tragedy; while the longest of his poems, "Don Juan," is an insult to womanhood and a disgrace to genius; for although containing some of the most exquisite touches of description and finest flights of poetic feeling, its theme is along the lowest level of human passion.

* Long were the days she watched For one who never came; Through sleepless nights her white lips bore The burden of a name.

Long was our leave-taking.

Long would be the story to follow the fighting fortunes of the Irish Brigades.

The longest of these is Judith, in which the story of an apocryphal book of the Old Testament is done into vigorous poetry.

Emma Long was a singularly fascinating woman.

MONTGOMERY, ALAN R. Long were the nights: the saga of PT squadron "X" in the Solomons.

And the long and short of it is, gentlemen, I believe Sir Gilbertand Lady Carstairshave gone!"

The Minor longs to be at Age, then to be a Man of Business, then to make up an Estate, then to arrive at Honours, then to retire.

That was a single moment; but here, day-long is the idyl world.

The more formidable, because far more extensive and facile abuses, arising out of the unparalleled contraband traffic of which Spain is, and long has been, the theatre, and the attempted repression of which requires the constant employment of entire armies of regular troops, are elsewhere to be found in action and guarded against; they concern a neighbour nearer than Great Britain.

Turning suddenly to me, she said: "Sally, if I were dying, it would make me very happy to know that Emma Long would be the mother of my children.

The lover longs to be some article of dress that he might touch the beloved, or a bird that he might fly to her, or he fancies that all nature is love-sick in sympathy with him.

Again the longest of roads becomes the safest for us, but we will not make it wholly north, we will bear to the east also.

Long and dreary has been her progress from the obscurity to which even the Middle Ages doomed her, with all the boasted admiration of chivalry, to her present free and exalted state.

Long were the talks he had with the chaplain, a Baptist preacher, and when he recovered and left the hospital, his mind was fully made up.

My best chance seemed to lie in stopping where I was as long as daylight lasted, and then staking everything on a successful burglary.

He was profuse in thanks, of course, as all such men are as long as distress lasts.

You will keep the sort of order by which nothing is forgotten, you will practice patience which is as long as life, and maternity which is as heavy as the world.

Horace, born 65 B.C., like Virgil was also a favored man, enjoying the friendship of the great, and possessing ease, fame, and fortune; but his longings for retirement and his disgust at the frivolities around him are a sad commentary on satisfied desires.

35 Metaphors for  longing