The youngster always has solitary longing.
The paternal longing ran on allfours with her own desire.
But her eyes were full of unspeakable longing and sadness.
The germ of the race is in your mother's longing.
The children are longing for Santa Claus to arrive.
Now, incongruously, ridiculously, she found herself longing for a cheese sandwich.
Ibrahim Muhawi's limpid translation captures the longing, the ache of exile.
Desire is the longing to achieve a vision; without desire you have nothing.
times of ease and plenty can bring on the same longing.
The classics create a longing in us for a different world, a better world.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
You were mighty eager to set off, but your longing to see poor Linton has soon evaporated!
Suppose you've just broken up with your girlfriend or boyfriend; you're heartbroken, overwhelmed by feelings of sadness and longing.
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
Therefore his sky seems to ache with the pain of countless meetings and partings, and a longing pervades this spring breeze, the longing that is full of the whisper of ages without beginning.
Your longing for closeness may, at times, lead you to believe that your situation might never end.
I tell myself that I'm not so much yearning for free refills as I'm longing for that feeling of belonging anywhere I happen to be.
Such decisions are not always easy, and there is always pain, longing, and a sense of missing the one left behind until all cords of attachment are dissolved.
Mother must have sensed my longing, for she would take my little brother and me back to visit my Granny on occasions, even after the divorce.
This longing has never left Dominic Prince, a British journalist, film-maker and bon viveur, who spent his childhood hurtling around on ponies.
There are many reasons human beings institutionalized their spiritual longing into religions. Those reasons often devolved into considerations of power, control and real estate.
This is such a deep longing that right from our childhood, we are constantly adapting to our environment and building different strategies, so we can better fulfill this need.
His departure gave birth to a longing, craving for all things Greek. I listen to Manos Hadjidakis music now, play with his Komboloi when I feel preoccupied and sleep with his Orthodox icon by my bed.
To see it instills in us a sense of hope that the longing for freedom that beats in the heart of every human being can be realized in our time.
Then I could have one of those little white houses in some New England town, and there would be a sun porch and a salary; and when I got to school there would be these happy faces longing to see me!
