69 collocations for longing

But you know you're longing all the time for some work to do yourself.

Brown's neighbours were not of the very poorest, by any means, but all were thriftily accustomed to self-denial, and there is no flavour to any dainty like that of having seldom tasted but of having longed for it all one's life.

These graceful creatures have long, slender limbs, delicately-formed heads, and large, beautiful eyes.

He longed, too, to learn from Tom somewhat at least of that savoir faire, that power of "becoming all things to all men," which St. Paul had; and for want of which Frank had failed.

Some deftly carved boxes and figures of chamois and their hunters stood on Carlen's best-room mantel, much admired by her neighbors, and longed for by her toddling girl,these, and a bunch of dried and crumbling blossoms of the Ladies' Tress, were all that had survived the storm.

All day long the range cattle, about three hundred in number had searched the river bottom for the grass which the heavy snowfall of the night before had covered; searched eagerly, nervously all the while, bawling, ill-naturedly pushing and horning, blaming each other in a perfectly human way.

He wished to pass by means of it into a sphere of sublimated sensation which would arouse in him new commotions whose cause he might long and vainly seek to analyze.

Not many days passed ere the chance came to me for which I had longed the chance of striking a blow for the emperor.

No law can long exactly fit changing conditions.

With what means must she carry out her payments if she is obliged to cede a large part of her customs receipts, that is of her best form of monetary value, and if she has no longer either credits or freights abroad?

"Papa and I have been longing and longing all the day.

In those words lives the very spirit of that enviable death which all men think they long forthe death which takes no thought of self, and swallows up fear in victory.

My Lord, I haue Remembrances of yours, That I haue longed long to re-deliuer.

The Saviour will not always bear With those who from Him stay; And those who long His grace despise, Will grieve His love away.

Dupleix espied the possibility of a new organization which should secure to the French in India the preponderance, and ere long the empire even, in the two peninsulas.

His manner was wistful and deprecating even to pathos, and I longed for one burst of passion, one evidence of self-will, to prove to myself that I, like others he had been recently thrown with, was not the meanest of all created creaturesa baby's despot!

Thy form hath put on every changing dress Of name, and circumstance, and history, That so the life, dumb in the wondrous page Recording woman's glory, might come forth And be the living fact to longing eyes Thou, thou essential womanhood to me; Afar as angels or the sainted dead, Yet near as loveliness can haunt a man, And taking any shape for every need.

All day long the fire of muskets and cannonthen, from sunset to dawn, the curving fire of the roaring mortars, and the steady, never-ceasing crack of the sharp-shooters along the front.

According to this plan, Charlemagne had to traverse the territories of Aquitaine and Vasconia, domains of Duke Lupus II., son of Duke Waifre, so long the foe of Pepin the Short, a Merovingian by descent, and in all these qualities little disposed to favor Charlemagne.

* * The house is old, the trees are bare, Moonless above bends twilight's dome; But what on earth is half so dear So longed foras the hearth of home?

Does he suppose that after waiting all this time for the only man in the world who can keep me interested for four hours on a stretch and send my pulse up to a hundred and make me feel those thrilly thrills I've always longed fordoes he suppose that now I'm going to pay any attention to his silly notions about wills and things?

'So longed the founders of Babel,' answered Argemone, carelessly, to this tirade.

I longed, oh Fred, you know how I longed to go to foreign lands, but I long now as I never longed before to go to Heaven."

O THOU OF LITTLE FAITH LONGING A BOY'S GRIEF THE CHILD-MOTHER LOVE'S

* * The house is old, the trees are bare, Moonless above bends twilight's dome; But what on earth is half so dear So longed foras the hearth of home?

69 collocations for  longing