Sentence for longing | Use longing in a sentence

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• To have but one such rest from longing! (8)
• Longing paralysed their brains. (8)
• I am longing to be embraced by you . (10)
• What grief and longing in her wild face then! (8)
• I have been longing for you, looking forward. (10)
• She would not admit her longing to attract him. (8)
• And a longing to escape in generalities beset him. (8)
• The old longing for physical combat came over him. (8)
• A longing came upon Rhoda to go and handle butter. (10)
• A longing came upon Rhoda to go and handle butter. (22)
• And she looked around as if longing to tell him so. (4)
• He could never leave off longing for what he once owned! (8)
• The longing to have her always with him was growing fast. (8)
• He had a longing to make atonement and to win forgiveness. (9)
• The longing for Champagne stimulant increased in fervour. (22)
• Then all save the madness of his longing deserted Miltoun. (8)
• She remembered so well the day that longing first came to her. (8)
• Nor was this mere spiritual longing; it had its material side. (10)
• What strife between pities and passions; what longing for peace! (8)
• Ashurst bit at his sleeve, to stifle a groan of remorseful longing. (8)
• How many, longing for the light, Sink deeper in the abyss this night! (10)
• But in both there was always some little word of the longing within them. (8)
• For the first time she felt a longing to confide her feelings to some one. (5)
• Must a maiden have met with misfortune, to make her feel a longing to weep? (5)
• My longing to look at them again was like a sudden jet of flame within me. (10)
• This longing grew in her so all night that at breakfast she told her father. (8)
• A sudden frightened longing for warmth, and light, and colour came to Barbara. (8)
• And a sudden feverish longing to get back to it overpowered all other thought. (8)
• But this very longing created the resistance to it in the depths of her soul. (10)
• I have been longing to talk to somebody; nobody seems to feel about it as I do. (9)
• If a man could die from longing and anxiety, surely Lennan must have died then! (8)
• Unanimous was the longing to heave half a brick at it whenever it showed itself. (8)
• And with these tears, her jealous, wild feelings passed, leaving only her longing. (8)
• And a sudden wish, almost a longing, not a friendly one, to see this woman seized her. (8)
• And the longing to rush up and down the platform almost overcame her; but still she waited. (8)
• As I thus lay, between content and longing, a faint noise stole towards me through the pines. (2)
• Lavender by this independent confirmation of his sudden longing that he took out half a crown. (8)
• Indeed he looked so dismal that the ladies began to think he had a great longing for Besworth. (10)
• The fact was, he was sick of travel and of leisure; he was longing to be at home and at work again. (9)
• I could only go by those delightful, silent houses, and sigh my longing soul into their dim interiors. (9)
• Since that night when they had walked home from Ipley Green, she had not suffered a moment of longing. (10)
• All that evening, furtive watching, formal talk, and underneath a ferment of doubt and fear and longing. (8)
• This baulking of the sentiment of love, whipped up, if anything, the longing for justice in Mr. Ventnor. (8)
• And then it seemed to lose interest in this critical journey, as though longing to clothe all in witchery. (8)
• Fragrant little anecdotes of married bliss and unstilled longing and cosy households flowed from his lips. (12)
• He scarce had the power to conduct himself reverently, so intense was his longing to show her his sympathy. (22)
• She sat staring up into his face, and longing to ask him something, to accuse him of having done this purposely. (9)
• To realize the futility of some great longing was bitterer than to discover the insufficiency of a human being. (12)
• She was always wondering at what she had done, longing to find the deep, the sufficient reason for having done it. (8)
• What was it which struggled against pity and this feverish longing, and kept him there paralysed in the warm sand? (8)
• And there moved in him a longing to go down and see again the farm and the orchard, and the meadow of the gipsy bogle. (8)
• It caught him forward: it seemed full of the spirit of his love, and brought tears of mournful longing to his eyelids. (10)
• And at last she wept, miserably, for the forlorn wreck of her worship, longing for the glorious man she had once adored. (13)
• And Gyp, though excited always by anything new, keenly alive to every sort of beauty, felt a longing for air and sunlight. (8)
• He was a gentle and kindly man, with a life and a longing, quite apart from his vocation, which were never lived or fulfilled. (9)
• Not one of these things that Nature made her do counted on her side, but how they fanned his longing, his desire, and distress! (8)
• Or was it just some vague longing to please him by a show of affection toward his family, an unmeditated impulse of reparation? (9)
• It was about the necklace, which she was now most earnestly longing to return, and hoped to obtain his approbation of her doing. (4)
• The words would not pass his lips, though he knew she must be conscious that he had not said them, must be longing to hear them. (8)
• She would never have done it herself; it was just that which, for all her longing to help her sister, iced her love and sympathy. (8)
• A patriot of patriots, he had often a passionate longing to resign his parish, and go like his curate for a chaplain at the Front. (8)
• They all stopped talking and looked at John Munt, who was coming toward them, and each felt a longing to lay the matter before him. (9)
• The circus-fascinated but impecunious youngster must needs vicariously satisfy his longing by turning handsprings outside the barrier. (21)
• A bed of moss set about flowers in a basket under him breathed to his nostril of the woodland keenly, and filled him with delirious longing. (10)
• That was his driving mood; but the craftsman in him, longing to be clear and poignant, made him more natural, more actual than most realists. (8)
• With a touch of dread and longing she wondered that no one dragged her back by force into the comfort of a sheltered, care-free, secure life. (12)
• And impelled by the passion of longing, the dearth which comes on one when life seems to be whirling something out of reach, he hurried forward. (8)

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