But communicate with you somehow I must, and that for your own sake as well as Gartley's who is pining away for lack of the sunlight of your eyes.
You may imagine I should not like to see my Hester a love-sick maiden, pining and wasting away!
The weakly wife had to carry the sickly baby, who, with many ups and downs, had been slowly pining away.
It was with him always; and with it a sense of irreparable loss, of a terrible void, of a pining anguish.
And then think of her pining and piningall these years, and sitting at the window looking adown the street for Gerard!
But it has been peaking and pining worse and worse this while.
She went and told her the case; and would she nurse the piningchild for the nonce, till she had matters ready to wean him?
If the spirit is to be seen anxious with poverty we have but a few steps to walk from rejoicing splendour to pining misery.
Harry is piningnow for a red coat, and if we don't mind, will take the shilling.
Perhaps it was application to the work and not piningover the absence of Césarine, but the Italian showed evidence of sleeplessness and his pallor had the unpleasant cast of the Southerners when out of spirits.
I see that you are pining for the sphere to which your grace and charms entice you.
But then I remembered how that the maiden nightingale likewise pipes her sweetest only so long as her bosom is full of pining love; but so soon as she has given her heart wholly to her mate, her song grows shorter and less tender.
Then Arthur's father, who has all along been secretly pining in the ways of virtuous ruggedness for those accursed snares which are called the Arts, becomes acquainted with her.
When this is the case, and when the pining of the heart is once satisfied, and the object of love is found, there are two mighty reasons why the love should be most passionately cherished.
Wearied and sated with the pursuit of what was worthless, my heart, at last, exhausted itself in pining for what was pure.
Somewhere in her inherited Puritan nature was a vague conviction that it was wrong, and it seemed even to find an echo in the warning of the preacher: this was what she was "pining for.
So poor Andreas hurried back across the Alps to his pining mate, overjoyed to be able to bring her some better tidings than his previous disappointments had enabled him to write to her.
Numbers of conscripts die from it every year in Algiers, pining for their belle France to the last; only the Ethiopian, or modern negro, seems unaffected by its influence.
Served her right, too," she ought not to be "pining and whining and breaking her heart after a man who never cared for her!
See what suspicion and pining thoughts can do, when they have crept into the heart.
Marcoline, who had been pining by herself all day, breathed again when I told her that henceforth I should be all for her.
A gentle word, a bright smile, is not hard to bestow, but oh, the blessing they can be to hearts pining perhaps for kindness!
How much of the pining was for Bernadette and how much for Arthur?
The pining of the 'love-bird' for its absent mate, and the keen distress of a hen on losing her chickens, furnish abundant evidence of vivid feelings of the kind in question.
That birds possess considerable powers of imagination, or forming mental pictures of absent objects, may be inferred from the fact of their pining for absent mates, parrots calling for absent friends, &c.
And this is what makes it so bitter, when man, pining in poverty among the common hearts of earth, is rendered by the noblest only unhappy at last.
Here I was, pining to live in a House by the Side of the Road, when all the time I was living in a House by the Side of the Road!
Hinpoha, where did you find that darling pen-holder with the parrot's head on the end, and Gladys, who told you that I broke my handglass and was pining for a white ivory one?
The things are lonesome," she wrote, "and pining for someone to love them and use them.
He looked so sad and lonesome we knew he was simply pining away for you.
For everybody will have a chance and a turn, and there'll be no bitterness between classes, and no hopeless pining and misery as there is now!
For a while, after Lady Selina's confidences, jealous annoyance, together with a certain reckless state of nerves, turned him almost into the pining lover.
She was pining for her work; pining even for Minta Hurd's peevish look, and the children to whom she was so easily an earthly providence.
When the winter morning broke, Marcella was lying with wide sleepless eyes, waiting and pining for it.
But she had been here a fortnight, and was now pining to go back to work.
He really was morbid about it; and it is likely enough that he did invoke it as a kind of curse in the violent scene (which undoubtedly happened) in which he struck Green with the decanter.
Her lean finger seemed to pick him out as if it were a pea-shooter.
She reminded him that there were as good fish in the sea as ever came out, and a girl of Jessie's attractions need not pine away (as she had seemed to be pining away) for lack of appreciation.
She was young, beautiful, full of life and spirits; she was pining away in that remote home, shut out from the living world she longed for with a longing I can not put into words.
She was a beautiful child, pining away like a bright bird shut up in a cage.
