33 collocations for pining

Whilst now I languish in a loath'd embrace, Pine out my Life with AgeConsumptions, Coughs.

Nor I wadna be a soldier, mither, to dice wi' ruffian bands, Pining weary months in castles, looking over wasted lands.

These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful, Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart.

Ah, fond deceit!too soon the heart, unblest, Unsated, turns from these illusive charms Back to the haunting dream of heav'n once known: It pines for those soft eyes, that throbbing breast, Those sweet life-giving lips, those circling arms The breath, the touch, the warmth of Beauty flown.

That at that moment the criminal was within its confines, where perhaps the beloved Cora was imprisoned, a miserable and pining captive.

They were very happy for a while; till sickness and want of work came upon them; and then the father enlisted as a soldier, and the wife pined in the lonely cottagegrowing every year more careless and desponding, as her anxiety and fears for her absent husband, of whom no tidings ever reached her, accumulated.

'O! tell him, my belov'd, I pine away, So long an exile from my native home; Tell him I feel my vital powers decay, And seem to tread the confines of the tomb; But tell him not, it is extremest dread Of royal vengeance falling on my head!

I feel it my duty, as patron of the bark, to recall to your honors that many poor travellers, far from their homes and pining families, are waiting our leisure, not to speak of foot-sore pilgrims and other worthy adventurers, who are impatient in their hearts, though respect for their superiors keeps them tongue-tied, while we are losing the best of the breeze.

All the while he was fighting his doubts, living, as he says, "in a continual, indefinite, pining fear."

To weepe, To sigh, to sob, to pine, to groane, To wring my hands, to sit alone.

Lady Mourns the Absence of Her Student Lover~ You student, with the collar blue, Long pines my heart with anxious pain.

It was he who married them when they found each the alter ego, to whom they could say: "Thou art all to me love for which my heart did pine A green isle in the sea love, a fountain and a shrine.

In him was somewhat checked; and, when his Brother Was gone to sea, and he was left alone, 355 The little colour that he had was soon Stolen from his cheek; he drooped, and pined, and pined Leonard.

Somehow they all get tired of married life later; they mostly pine away. LEONÍD.

For loblolly pine the limit of safety is certainly 30 pounds for 4 hours, or 20 pounds for 6 hours.

(WELL OF ST MARY.) 'Tis for thee I will be pining, Tober Mhuire.

Cheerful to outward seeming, but restless, fond of change, and subject to the melancholy and pining mood common to young and ardent minds.

One that would meet my mirth, sometimes outrun it; No puling, pining moppet, as you said, Nor moping maid, that I must still be teaching The freedoms of a wife all her life after:

Is inward reason shrunk to subtleties, And inward wisdom pining passion-starved?

Bürger's Pastor's Daughter murdered her natural child, but it is her ghost which haunts its grave, which she had torn With bleeding nails beside the pond, And nightly pines the pool beside.

His superior repeated his invitation with warmth, and waved his hand in a frank but temporary adieu; thus unconsciously suffering the man to escape him whose capture would have purchased the long postponed and still distant advantages for whose possession he secretly pined, with all the withering longings his hope cruelly deferred.

Why do they pine away, Potápych? POTÁPYCH.

That ruthlesse mind, that iron savage heart, So greatly loved and so little loving, Breathes in this brest; 'twas I returnd disdaine For deepe affection, scorne for loyalty, And now compassionlesse shall pine my selfe.

Methinks, it is better that I should have pined away seven of my goldenest years, when I was thrall to the fair hair, and fairer eyes, of Alice Wn, than that so passionate a love-adventure should be lost.

(1) Echo pined away into (as the accustomed phrase goes) 'a mere shadow of her former self.' (2) Just as a solid body, lighted by the sun, casts, as a necessary concomitant, a shadow of itself, so a sound, emitted under the requisite conditions, casts an echo of itself; echo is, in relation to sound, the same sort of thing as shadow in relation to substance.

33 collocations for  pining