He would not urge it, he said, if I were much averse: but they were his select friends; men of birth and fortune, who longed to see me.

"That will save me the cost and trouble of travelling to Romea city I have always longed to see.

His mother taught him to read, and when he was fifteen he longed to travel and to write songs.

She longed for fresh air, but she would not go out into the town for fear of the cruel, curious eyes of the scandal-mongers.

A sort of indignant grief swelled up in Mercy's bosom; she was indignant with herself, with him, with circumstances, with everybody; she was unreasoning and unreasonable; she longed so to see Stephen's face that she could not think clearly of any thing else.

Then he said, "Ever since I can remember, I have longed for a perfect and absorbing friendship.

She had heard him preach twice, and had been so greatly impressed by his words and by his face that she longed very much to know him.

The one thing that he longed now to do, the only reparation that he felt was left for him to make to her, was to enable her, if possible, to look on him as she had done before.

And if I, reckless, standing there, For once the truth imploring said, That not for bread or meat I longed, That such an alms my real need wronged, That I would fain come in, and sit Beside their fire, and hear the voice Of children; yea, and if my choice Were free, and I dared mention it,

Sometimes, unable to bear the omission any longer, he would ask her pathetically why she did not say that she longed to see him.

There were even times when he kissed her, solely from the yearning need he felt to kiss something human, he so longed for one touch of Mercy's hand.

She longed to advise them, but her sense of humor luckily kept her silent.

Had they known, they might almost have been disappointed, for the spur of need was already pricking them, and their valiant young spirits longed to be in the thick of the fray.

Louis de Male longed for the re-establishment and extension of his authority; and had the art to gain over to his views not only all the nobles, but many of the most influential guilds or trades.

The first only wished for action; the latter longed for distinction.

"O God!" cried De Barneveldt, "what then is man?" as he bent his head to the sword that severed it from his body, and sent the inquiring spirit to learn the great mystery for which it longed.

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

After our parting at this place, I became restless and uneasy, and longed to get back to my work.

It was not easy to answer their arguments; but the lords of the pale, attached through habit to the English government, anxiously longed for an armistice as the preparatory step to a peace.

'Jump when I give the word, and get as far up the pebbles as you can before the next comes in: they will throw us a rope's-end to catch; so now good-bye, John, and God save us both!' I wrung his hand, and took off my convict clothes, keeping my boots on to meet the pebbles, and was so cold that I almost longed for the surf.

She understood that Shere Ali would suffer because of her, and she longed that he should find his compensation in the opportunities of rulership.

I saw the empire of Hell divided against itself; Satan desired the crime of the Jews, and earnestly longed for the death of Jesus, the Converter of souls, the holy Teacher, the Just Man, who was so abhorrent to him; but at the same time he felt an extraordinary interior fear of the death of the innocent Victim, who would not conceal himself from his persecutors.

Helen Brabazon called out: "I've always longed to attend a séance!

But oh, how I've longed to come through to you all these years!

She turned her eager, smiling face on Lionel Varick, "I've always longed to stay in a haunted house.