Longings
[lɔ:ŋɪŋz]
Examples
- It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- With this beautiful world I am content, but you rack your soul with longings for the life beyond the grave. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I'm consumed by the same wants and the same longings. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Her eagerness, her impatience, her longings to be with them, were such as to bring a line or two of Cowper's Tirocinium for ever before her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Edited by Georgina