Columbus had won the admiration of would-be young heroes, and the heroic deeds of the grand old sailor were read with avidity, the boylonging some day to emulate them.
Longing for fields of adventure he went into Kansas, where he soon made a name in the border war then going on there.
I lived in quiet; cold, content; All longing in safe banishment, Until your ghostly lips and eyes Made wisdom unwise.
After stopping some time at Raj Ghat I returned to my home, musing on what I had seen, and longing for the time when the millions of India will seek cleansing and life, where alone they can be found.
The scenes around were so unlike those of my own country, the prevailing idolatry so repulsive, the society, associations, and climate so different, that I turned from them to my native land with many a fond longing look.
Perhaps that meaning will be the meaning of life, in which case I am longingfor the unattainable.
A longing she had only faintly known, a physical thing which she had resisted, had become real, insistent, beating.
He seemed overcome with the passionate longing to show his gratitude to Olsen.
In spite of a longing that amounted to pain and a nameless dread she could not deny, she was happy.
This longing desire is not expressly mentioned in Genesis, but it is most intimately connected with all living faith, and must necessarily precede such divine communications.
God's judgments, in which He draws near to His people, in which the abstract God becomes a concrete God, excite in the people a longingfor a union with Him.
Congregation is placed in the centre of the world, and becomes the object of the longing of all nations, iv.
They shall become the objects of the longing of the nations, even the most powerful and hostile.
The people are longing for an example—proof that harmony and love can actually exist in a community—and it is one of the primary duties of the Bahá’ís to demonstrate these great principles in their relations with each other.
It leads not to the enjoyable activity which interests you, but to a series of bodily exertions and a state of unfulfilled longing in which you have no interest at all.
A longing after unqualified good is the very breath of enlightened religion; and in order that that ideal may be kept pure, it must not be identified with any partial good.
They were bubbling over with innocent animal life; they were longing to be afield at golf or tennis.
It seemed to him that his longing was gradually strengthening into a purpose which he could not overcome.
He thought of the humble little house in which he and Sylvia had lived so many years, and a sort of passion of longing for it seized him.
Harris cast a wistful look towards the manhole, not in cowardice, I fancy, but in sudden longing for the sea, the longing of a poor devil of a sailor-man doomed to die ashore.
The opiate racked my head; it did not do its work; and I longed to sleep till evening with a longing I have never known before or since.
Intending only to lie, I found myself telling little but the strictest truth, and longing for sleep as passionately as though I had nothing to keep me awake.
For over a century millions of men had felt that same longing to know.
But despite wild longing to see her again, I did not return to Marguerite's apartment for many weeks.
Despite my longing for human companionship I found it difficult to join in this strange recrudescent paganism with any ease or grace.
She went out on the deck, longing for the tonic of pure air.
And besides, I was overcome by an atavistic longing to do chores.
There were strange, brief moments in her life now, when out of the warring complexity in her heart there rose the simple longing of a little girl to go to her mother, to feel those strong, unfailing arms about her.
And she was all one anguish of longing for Austin.
Sylvia had thought of a solitary walk, longing intensely for isolation, and she did not at all welcome the suggestion of adapting herself to a stranger.
The longing was so intense, so violent that he was almost tempted to ask his father for one straight out.
Yes," Van der Welcke admitted, a little dubiously, "but you were longing for your family.
And burning with his longing for the unattainable, he pedalled away--Ottocar in a motor-car!
Do you know what I have been longing for since yesterday, like a baby, like a boy?
So one morning, possessed with courage she did not understand, and filled with longing that drove her against her will, she started down the river.
Often did Alcuin think of these goodly times with a longing heart, and wish that he could revel among them whilst in France.
The earlier Anselm, of gentle character, shrinking from the turmoil of strife and longing only for the quiet of the abbey library, had apparently disappeared.
Each cast a longing glance towards the surrounding mountains, the deep valleys, still veiled in mist, and the surface of Lake Taupo, gently rippling beneath the morning wind.
While he was thinking thus, and longing for a little light in the gloomy sky, the ladies, relying upon his words, were reposing in their berths.
At night I wandered about, longing to see you again.
The earth, like a longing bride, had richly adorned herself to receive in her dark nuptial chamber, the victims consecrated to death--the heroes who fell in the sanguinary battles.
He cast a longing glance at the bereaved mother, who had long stood trembling behind him, and they fell silent into each other's arms, and their eyes could scarcely weep more.
The sighing Wladomir waited in the meanwhile with the most ardentlonging for the development of his fate.
The hope of beholding the beautiful vision again forsook me; but not so my longing after her.
O welcome, Love's darling: Shall this day ever darken, Whose dawn I have dight for thy longing triumphant?
O heavy the feet of one who bears The longing of days and the grief of years!
Sweeter still for lips to meet; Sweetest that thine heart doth hide Longing all unsatisfied With all longing's answering Howsoever close ye cling.
Then midst my pity for their lost delight, Yet more with barren longing I grew weak, Yet more I mourned that I had none to seek.
What drop in the grey flood of tears That time, when the long day toiled through, Worn out, shows nought for me to do, And nothing worth my labour bears The longing of that last farewell?
He took her hand and held it for a minute with a strong pressure which spoke for him of his longingto keep it in his permanent possession.
As Burns drove away he was feeling a sense of loneliness as unpleasant as it was unexpected, and found himself longing to get back to a certain pair of arms whose hold was a panacea for every ache.
He did not know which had sounded most clearly; he did not know which inclination had prevailed over him most strongly, the longing for a personal joy, or the pitiful desire to shed happiness and peace on a darkened and soiled existence.
She is the most lovely boat on the Nile, I am told, and every one is longing to go over her.
They stood in its darkness, this woman who was longing to return to the unbridled life of her sensual and disordered past, and this man who, quite without vanity, believed that he had been permitted to redeem her from it.
And it was difficult for him to realize, more difficult still for him to sympathize with, Nigel's obvious regret at his wife's going, obvious longing for her to be back again by his side.
The outline of a thing can set a sensitive heart beating with the strange, the almost painful longing for an ideal life, with ideal surroundings, ideal loves, ideal realizations.
It is usually accepted as true of all women that, however low one of them has fallen, she preserves for ever within her a secret longing to be respected by man.
And now, instantly, Mrs. Armine was seized by a frantic longing to escape.
But to-night she had an uneasy longingto get upon terms with him.
But in the evening, when he was dining alone, the longing to be off returned, and though he said to himself that he would not yield to it, he did not answer Nigel's letter.
He felt a longing to be alone with Ruby, to make her forgive him for having hurt her in the morning.
Instead of the longing to return to and reign in England, came the desire to push England out of her life, almost to kick it away scornfully and have done with it for ever.
Scarcely ever, if ever, before had he felt such an almost physical longing for violence.
And then he looks on to the future and sees that the work that he knows is an insignificant fragment of the whole work; and he thinks with longing of the time when he shall see revealed all that has been accomplished.
Silence and meditation, longing and waiting, would have filled the years till the hour of her release.
At that moment, this noble and proud man, this severe and grave magistrate experienced an irresistible longing for vengeance.
Though in a great rage internally, and longing to insult and chastise he whom he inwardly styled a "fool of a magistrate," old Tabaret forced himself to be humble and polite.
One is easily induced to believe true that which one is anxiously longing for.
She felt herself swept by an immense longing to be sure.
In times past he had stared in patient longing for the moment of the boy's release; but this morning he only stared.
Perhaps the ardor with which he seized her was the unspent force of the longing roused in him by Rosie.
So Muir would run on, now in English, now in broad Scotch; but through all his raillery there ran a note of longing for the wilderness.
The first of the great northward gold stampedes--that of 1897 to the Klondyke in Northwestern Canada on the borders of Alaska--afforded me the opportunity for which I was longing to return to the land of my heart.
Perhaps her own glance of love and longing had commanded the embrace; for when she released herself she was weeping, and Ulfar's tears were on her cheeks.
A lovely song sounded into his longing heart; and as she approached, he stepped back into the church.
The longing for those feelings had to supply the place of those feelings themselves; and for that reason I turned my aspirations hitherward, and hoped here to find every thing in the most beautiful harmony.
We have been eagerly longing for his presence for some time past, and looking forward to his coming as anxiously as you children of air look forward to spring and spring-flowers after a tedious winter.
Ludwig, a young indolent dreamer, full of all this kind of sentimental longing to be rid of sentimentality, is on his way to visit a sick friend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
