I wore away the longest part of many wild sad nights, in those rides; reviving, as I went, the thoughts that had occupied me in my long absence.
The strain was new to me, and yet it was so old that it filled my heart brim-full; like a friend come back from a long absence.
He has just returned to England after a long absence.
Believe me, I have often recalled your image in my long absence, and I find now that my memory has not deceived me.
HOW delicious after a long absence to wake on a sunny morning and find ourselves at home!
On seeing Gallardo after a long absence he embraced him, pressing his flabby abdomen against the other's body which seemed made of bronze.
No--more beautiful, if possible, with the added temptation of a long absence.
It might be that Dona Sol, seeing him after a long absence--who could tell!
She came, after a long absence in foreign lands, eager for everything pertaining to la tierra, enjoying the popular customs and finding it all very interesting, "very artistic.
Years passed, and after a long absence abroad I met them by chance in London.
But my brother and I had not seen each other for years; he had come back from India after a long absence.
Returning from Mount Ida after a long absence, after presenting in imagination the fairest of women with the apple, I said: "You asked me whom I had been in love with; now tell me with whom have you been in love?
In the parties themselves, Idleness, impotency in one party, melancholy, long absence.
But Constantine embraced his faithful servant, not with the cold approbation of a sovereign, but with the warm confidence of a friend, who, after a long absence, is impatient to pour his secrets into the bosom of his friend.
And on the way he met, and struck up a friendship with, a young Brahman, named Rudrasoma, who had lately returned from a long absence abroad.
And when Sasin heard that, being a jealous man, and having just returned from a long absence in a foreign land, he became anxious about his wife, though he had locked her up in a cellar.
And when I got on board, I saw my own father who had gone to a distant island long before, and was now returning after a long absence.
After a long absence, he, too, was returning to his native land.
It is not wonderful that I am a good deal moved, in seeing an old friend after a long absence.
Though not alarmed, I say, I was vexed, for I could not go nearly so fast in the dark, and I began to think that Billy might be a little uneasy at my long absence.
Our books, our drawings, our piano, even my old armchair in which I used to work, seem like so many friends that I have met again after a long absence.
She no longer sought absolute solitude, it is true; she suffered herself not to be plunged into those deep fits of thought, which had been her only comfort during Lorenzo's long absence at Naples.
I a parent living who came back from a long absence, how I should spring to receive his first caress!
Pontius had travelled with them from Thebes to Besa, and she had spared him nothing that could punish him for his long absence, and had mercilessly compelled him to listen to all her verses on Antinous.
She was shivering with cold, and her friend's long absence began to annoy her.
On this very day he was obliged by Caesar's command to start on a journey and for a long absence; his destination was Pelusium, where he was to erect a monument to the great Pompey on the spot where he had been murdered.
As soon as the little Laura beheld me, she sprang up as usual to my neck, and, making a sort of seat of my arm, scolded me with childish vehemence for my long absence.
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