I've felt like a thief ever since I found it, an' knew who it b'longed ter.
Arabella's curiosity forced her to tell all that Patricia longed to know, because she was simply wild to visit the conservatory, and find out what it was that Patricia could show.
Reginald had longed to peep over that wall, but he dared not linger.
I wondered, and I hoped, and longed to ask her what she thought about it.
On the strength of this I gave Meade what he longed for, and it did him good.
How terrible it all appeared in there; how I longed to make the change!
More and more he longed for rest and freedom, for “leisure for reflection on the Divine which subsists in things human, and for writing, if God enables me to do so.
You knew that some time ago Lassen longed to see you, more than any other man.
Tom was greatly affected by this explanation and longed to see Paradise; but he was fearful lest he had done something wrong and that the little devils would carry him away.
Little Tom was almost beside himself with anger and longed to lead an expedition against the Redheads and destroy them, but Mirmex remained cool and undisturbed.
Grisell longed to know, but modest pride forbade her to ask, whether he knew how matters stood with her rival, Lady Eleanor Audley.
She longed to fly through the air, but her limbs trembled.
She longed to make up for him one of the many appetising possets well known at Wilton, but her mother and Ralf the cook both scouted her first proposal.
She longed after Sister Avice's wisdom and tenderness, and wondered whether her lands would purchase from her knight, power to return thither with dower enough to satisfy the demands of the Proctor.
Grisell longed to kneel and pray, but her mother hurried her.
Grisell longed to know, but for that very reason she faltered when about to ask, and turned her query into one whether he had heard any news of his English relations.
She told me in her letter that she had found the quiet she longed for near the threshold of St Peter.
And we believe that in you we have found the friend whom we longed for, whom we wished for, whom we desired.
She left her father's residence for Herford, where she was so happy that in after years she often longed to be back there.
She longed to go on--to tell Oliver how hard it had been for her to build up her life afresh--after he had finally decided to stay on in Mexico.
He longed to go on, to tell the man standing by his side what Sir Angus had said as to his having "a sporting chance.
She longed with a fearful, gasping longing, to go back and listen at the door which had just closed behind her.
And since that day he has not haunted me as he haunted me during those long long days of waiting for the news I at once longed for and dreaded.
And towards the end of her life the woman gave all that he had longed for, all he had schooled himself to believe it was not in her to give--but it had been there all the time!
What Mrs. Tropenell would have heard, had she yielded to that ignoble temptation, would not have told her anything of what she had solonged to know.
Without even telling her of what he was going to do, the man now walking by her side had brought about the thing that for years she had longed should come to pass.
He gloried in the accounts of Paul Abbot's bravery, and longed to meet him and take him by the hand.
He ardently longed for the moment when he might satiate his vengeance.
I longed for the time when I should be a man, and do as I saw others do.
The moment she mentioned to him her wish of having the band of music in the garden, he was charmed with the scheme, and longed to dine out in the arbour with the children; but he dared not press this point, lest he should excite suspicion.
I longed for the days when I should be able to drink and be idle; and, in the mean time, I set all my wits to work to baffle and overreach the viewer.
Gratitude swelled in his bosom; and he longed to be alone, that he might freely yield to his emotions.
Now she also longed sore for her father; so she came down and met him at the stair-foot door, over against the lower hall; whereupon he embraced her and fell to kissing her and weeping and on this wise did she also.
When Alaeddin heard this proclamation, he longed to look upon the Sultan's daughter and said in himself, "All the folk talk of her grace and goodliness, and the uttermost of my desire is to see her.
I longed to view that bliss divine, Which eye hath never seen; Like Moses, I would see His face Without the veil between.
I've worked and studied, longed and grieved, Through all that rosy time.
She longed for gowns and bonnets like these, but there was no bitterness in her longing.
He flung a handful of the alluring yellow leaves into the bed of the wagon which poor old John Rapp was driving, and he sighed and wondered how he would raise the money to take the children down, and also he longed to see it himself.
The body of her verse grew, and she longed for Mason's opinion upon it, and yet she feared to send it, it seemed so different from other verse.
She went about with Carl and Rob as before, only she no longer longed for them; they seemed good, familiar comrades, but nothing more.
She longed to ask her to chum with her in her own pretty room, but the thought of Cecil restrained her.
Molly had longedto stand by the side of this girl and show every other girl in the school how noble and splendid she was, but the girl herself had repulsed her.
All the girls to whom the invitations had been sent longed for Saturday--all, with the exception of Matilda Matthews.
She longed to speak and give a word of comfort, but she knew that anything she said would be overheard by other girls.
I have already said that I might have made a good subaltern soldier, and the proof is that I longed for such a general.
I felt that beyond this dim underworld there was the great joyous earth, and I longed for it.
I longed miserably for the places where white men were thronged together in dorps and cities.
Or rather, I longed for a leader who should master me and make my soul his own, as this man mastered his followers.
David longed to tell how he loved her, but dared not.
But when he read the note he longed for his self-invited visitors.
She longed to put his commission into his pocket; but that was impossible.
When he did, there was something so different in his voice from anything he had ever bestowed on her, that she hated him, and longed to stick scissors into him from the rear, unseen.
It was poisonous to his nature, and he longed to meet something face to face--something he could gauge and fight.
It was raining; I had silk stockings on, and I longed for a carriage.
She longed to give any sort of excuse, but none would come to her lips.
Miss Frost longed to follow; but Rosamund held her back.
Rosamund longed to ask a thousand questions about them.
She longed beyond words to find Agnes sufficiently awake to put her arms round her neck and kiss her as of yore.
Lucy longed to say, "It will tire him; I can't do it.
I just longed to stick one down his neck; but I refrained when I looked at you.
She longed for the moment when she could, as usual, kiss little Agnes; but she was extra tired, for she had passed a stimulating day, and had been on her best behavior.
He watched Strangeways pacing up and down, and longed to question him, yet was fearful that in so doing he would betray his own secret.
He longedto dash on somewhere, on and on; but he was paralysed by his utter inability to think consecutively or to choose out any particular direction.
He had often longed that he might do that; it had made him feel that he shared so small a portion of her life that he should know her only by her man's name and remember her only in her Yukon placer-miner's dress.
In a way in which he had never desired it before, he longed for human companionship--just to look once more upon a living face.
But though her heart longedto speak freely, her judgment told her that it would be better that she should be reticent and tranquil in her language.
Don't you remember that I told you how I longed to throw them into the sea, and to be rid of them for ever?
She longed for the comfort of some friend's counsel, but she found at last that she could not purchase it by telling everything to a woman.
In those few hours she almost longed to throw the necklace into the sea, feeling sure that, if the diamonds were absolutely lost, there must be altogether an end of the matter.
And yet he knew that the woman did not love him, and he longed to tell her so.
But she had longed to be told that he was thinking of her, and at last the letter had come.
She had longed for some word from him since she last saw him; and now she had got a word.
She longed to break out into love, but so to express her love that her lover should know that it was strong enough even to sacrifice itself for his sake.
As Beata longed so much to see her hero and mine, accordingly, by way of disappointing her wish, she went for some days to her mother at Maussenbach.
Both longedto see each other; both dreaded to be seen by the Resident Lady; the discovery and still more the criticism of their emotions, they would gladly have avoided.
In the Old Testament days such an idea, though foretold and longed for, could be but vaguely conceived except in moments of especial insight in the minds of poet-prophets like David.
It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was as I lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a new day to come.
I longed for my teacher's return; but above all things I wanted to get down from that tree.
Sometimes he longed passionately for home and human companionship.
That kept him from going, and he spent the day in the tent drawing mind pictures of the little cabin home that he longed so much to see and the loved ones that were there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
