13 Verbs to Use for the Word longs

As in medieval tales, he who had once been admitted to fairyland, could nevermore conquer his longing to return thither, so the poet longs for some other condition of existence where the divine spirit of song may forever lift him above the trials and the littleness of this earthly life.

"You've not met her, Mary Lindeck, I think: she tells me she hasn't the pleasure of knowing you, but she desires it so muchparticularly longs for it.

When you are wishful to be withering 'Tis hard to be confined to "blithering," And to express explosive thinkin' One longs for some relief from "blinkin'.

Well, they meets, let's say, at a public, and one says to another, 'I say, Bill,' he says, 'that there dawg as you found 'longs to Lawyer Orkins; he's bloomin' fond o' dawgs, is Lawyer Orkins, so they say, and he can pay for it.'

For first what is novel he covets; Then with unwearying industry follows he after the useful; Finally longs for the good by which he is raised and ennobled.

Next; we may take comfort, in the hope that God will not impute to us these early follies and mistakes of ours; if only there be in us, as there was in St. Paul, the honest and good heart; that is, the heart which longs to know what is true and right, and bravely acts up to what it knows.

My Lord, no maid longs more for any thing, And feels more heat and cold within her breast, Than I do now, in hopes to see him.

No man loves the country more than I; for do not forests, trees, rocks reëcho that for which mankind longs?

Well, Sirbut my Lady, you must know, Sir, has the common frailties of her Sex, and will refuse what she even longs for, if persuaded to't by me.

We said our 'so-longs' to each other, and I gave the gray his head and he took the water like a duck.

Le pied presse le pied; l'île à leurs noirs assauts Tressaille au loin; l'acier mord le fer; des morceaux De heaume et de haubert, sans que pas un s'émeuve, Sautent à chaque instant dans l'herbe et dans le fleuve; Leurs brassards sont rayés de longs filets de sang Qui coule de leur crâne et dans leurs yeux descend.

Que vos ongles ne soient point replis d'ordures, ny trop longs.

But supposing that, devoid of any higher ambition to approve himself to judicious critics and posterity, and wanting in that love of art which longs for self-satisfaction in the perfection of its works, he had merely labored to please the unlettered crowd; still this very object alone and the pursuit of theatrical effect would have led him to bestow attention to the structure and adherence of his pieces.

13 Verbs to Use for the Word  longs