It was not thirst, nor yet a purpose to allay the very real physical burning of which I was now dimly conscious; but a craving for the liquid itself as something apart from and unconnected with anything else.

One of the most important passages Froebel ever wrote is this: "The deepest craving of the child's life is to see itself mirrored in some external object.

She admired him; he fascinated her, and she also felt a deep gratitude because he gave her just the sort of passionate worship that she must have always unconsciously craved for.

but the reflection in himself, as the most accurate mirror of the time, of all that wondrous susceptibility to beauty, that eager craving after the realization of the [greek: to kalon] ("the Good") so characteristic of the best Hellenic genius, whether we study it in the dramas of Sophocles or the Republic of Plato or in the statesmanship of Pericles.

Such a soul would sate Its deathless craving in some lofty flight, Some deed sublime, and read its shining fate

"Messire," said he, "thou hast craved of me a boon the which I do most full and freely grant.

It is this: that the will to live, which underlies the whole world of phenomena, must, in their case satisfy its cravings by feeding upon itself.

And then he told her alms, her mighty labours, Among God's poor, the schools wherein she taught; The babes she brought to the font, the hospitals Founded from her own penury, where she tended The leper and the fever-stricken serf With meanest office; how a dying slave Who craved in vain for milk she stooped to feed From her own bosom.

I was assiduous in my occupation; I frequented the society of my friends; but, my heart empty and incessantly craving after something which I could not obtain, was never content.

" If Pap wanted to see his young wifeand thirst for a sight of her was a continual craving with him; she was the light of the old sinner's eyeshe had to go in and look on the child he had injured.

It was agreed that some new punishment must be devised: they must devise some new task, something senseless, to suggest some craving without result.

For he was well aware that her response was impersonal; it was not his but any admiration that she craved as a parched land wants rain.

Twin daughters had blessed the union, and the Queen journeyed to the churches of Notre Dame and Saint Geneviève to crave from Heaven the boon of a Dauphin: a prayer which a year later was answered.

Now, Naani, having heed to my constant questions, craved with an utter keen hunger that I might come to her; but yet forbade it, in that it were better to live and commune in the spirit, than to risk my soul, and mayhaps die, in the foolishness of trying to find her in all the darkness of the dead world.

"Italians and Greeks don't want fiery drinks half as much as Russians and Scandinavianshaven't the same craving as Nova Scotians and cold-country people generally, I suppose.

"I think that the reason I played that night as though I were inspired was because of the great passionate craving at my heart for forgetfulness, to shut out the memory of that man who sat almost gloomily alone in his box, waiting.

He seems to have had a proportionate impulse to play, much curiosity and sociability, and in addition there was a certain craving within himI grieve to sayfor more to eat.

I shared thy coming to this Syrian shore, And here shall die, for nothing more I crave Than on these lonely hills to find a grave.

Just that one night I craved like a madman for a single human being to talk towell, I shall never forget it, Martha" "Miss Grimes!"

If ever it had hungered, through the cold, selfish days, for God's help, or a woman's love, it hungered now with a craving like death.

Recall'd from banishment by your decrees, Install'd in this imperial seat to rule, Old Marius thanks his friends and favourites, From whom this final favour he requires: That, seeing Sylla by his murderous blade Brought fierce seditions first to head in Rome, And forced laws to banish innocents, I crave by course of reason and desert, That he may be proclaimed, as erst was I, A traitor and an enemy of Rome.

As Frederic Taber Cooper well says, "British stolidity, British conservatism, the unvarying fixity of the social system, the sacrifice of individual needs and cravings to caste and precedent and public opinion,these are the themes which Mr. Galsworthy never wearies of satirizing with a mordant irony.

There was but one person whose company she did crave at this time and this was her son, Godfrey.

Politics seemed to him to open the surest and shortest road to the prominence which he craved above everything else.

He in my bosom with malicious zeal For that fair image fans a raging fire; From craving to enjoyment thus I reel, And in enjoyment languish for desire.