Longs
[lɔŋz]
Examples
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The thing one most longs for may be surrounded with conditions that would be intolerable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It longs for certainty and repose, and has little patience for any authority that does not claim absolute infallibility. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I have been born too late, for my soul is Athenian, and longs for the plane-trees of Ilissus. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He longs for majorities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She continued to look up exactly with the countenance of a child that longs for some prohibited dainty. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then his distress had overwhelmed him, and he longed for death as a field labourer longs for the shade. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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