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.

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

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.

Most other Things we long for can allay the Cravings of their proper Sense, and for a while set the Appetite at Rest:

" 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.

"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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.