She pined for the sound of his step--thought of throwing herself into his arms, and seeking consolation there for the pains of an habitual self-importance crushed beyond bearing.
But now that he was so near to meeting her again, though he pined for her, he suddenly and pitifully felt the need for some greater firmness of mind and will.
The heart of the king was thawing; and Marie Antoinette, who had so longed and pined for his regard, sometimes blushed, while with beating heart she indulged a hope that the king was falling in love.
In the gallery of Whitehall he pined for the familiar House in the Wood at the Hague, and never was so happy as when he could quit the magnificence of Windsor for his humbler seat at Loo:' (Macaulay: Hist.
So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled.
Lady Hester used to tell her that nobody was ever satisfied with their "married lot: the good and right-minded onlypined under it; the less scrupulous proclaimed their dissatisfaction to the world, and asked for sympathy.
Heyward watched the sun, as he darted his meridian rays through the branches of the trees, and pined for the moment when the policy of Magua should change their route to one more favorable to his hopes.
Enamoured instantly of his own beauty, he became spell-bound to the spot, where he pined to death.
So mortified was Calchas at the result of this trial, that he pined away and died.
None of these, as she felt, could comprehend her: and her solitary heart naturally pined for other attachments, and she sought around her where to bestow the precious boon of her unoccupied affection.
Ultimately those who believed in the murder and pined to avenge it, were constrained to admit that it was wiser to avoid a disgraceful political wrangle over the body of their dead hero.
The restless old man doubtless pined for reform; but he was weighed down by years, honours and familiarity with the senate.
Little Henry, too young to understand his sorrows, grew in strength and stature, like any other boy; but Elizabeth pined and sunk under the burden of her woes.
Some were shot, one was beheaded, and others were shut up in prisons, where they pined in hopeless privation and suffering for many years.
As the weary soul pines for sleep, and every heart for the cure of its own bitterness, so my heart and soul had often pined for their home.
Her eyes were sunken as if with the weight of the light she cared not for, and her cheeks had already pined away as if to be ready for the grave.
The girls, by some strange fatality, only survived her a few weeks; and the good old man, bereft of every kindred tie, pined away and died of a broken heart!
He pinedafter my step-mother; and very shortly followed her to the grave.
Yes, that must be it: she was frivolous--a soulless butterfly, who pined for the gaieties of Paris.
But she pined for womanly counsel and assistance in the matter.
They spoke not, but the gentle and low breathing assured them, that they had pinedaway together, and were now almost spent, and ready to go.
The people in crowds pined and died, or another part entered on a sorrowful exile with their whole families.
They were only too glad to hasten from this place, Port Famine, "for the noysome stench and vile savour wherewith it was infected through the contagon of the Spaniards' pined and dead carkeises.
She had a foreboding that she might never see those children more, yet would she have pined her heart away more surely had I left her at home!
Christina's blood curdled as she heard this speech in a weak little complaining tone, that otherwise put her sadly in mind of Barbara Schmidt's little sister, who had pined and wasted to death.
Much I fear me that my nature Cannot measure half his pride, And perchance he would not wed me Though I pinedof love and died.
No complaint was ever uttered, Only to herself she sighed,-- As she read of wretched poets Who had pined of love and died.
In spite of her love for him, she pined for the sunny valleys of her childhood, all the more as she never told her husband of the grief that gnawed at her heart, for he placed his Iceland before all the paradises of the world.
Helga's bodily strength increased day by day, but over her spirit rested a cloud of melancholy, and she pinedin secret for the paradise of her "feverish dreams.
For my part, I now pinedfor more solid food, and promised tacitly to myself that I would not be put off much longer with this foolery of woman to woman, of Mrs. Brown did not soon provide me with the essential specific.
If you try to persuade her, mind, it is at peril of being haunted by the ghost of a forlorn maiden, pined to death for a faithless friend!
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