But her yearning was so great that she soon desisted, and again and again went to the window with a fervent wish that he might come.
I felt that she was chafing and fretting, and yearning for meditation with an ungovernable desire, and was utterly unable to incline to any contrary thought.
She should prove that genuine piety conquers even the yearning of a quickly throbbing heart.
The young lawyer could not fail to note the careworn look upon Mr. Verne's passive countenance, nor did he fail to note the cause, while a strange yearning feeling went straight to the warm heart.
With what intense desire she wants her home," was continually on her tongue, as the truest description of a yearning which she could not suppose any schoolboy's bosom to feel more keenly.
Watching each other's eyes they were conscious of their souls; every moment it seemed as if their souls must float up and be discovered; and, while fearing discovery, there came a yearning to stand out of all shadow in the full light.
It was like deep music; words could not contain it, it was a deep and indistinct yearning for the stars--for spiritual existence.
She seemed to see beyond London, beyond the seas, whither she could not say, and she could not quell the yearning which rose to her lips like a wave, and over them.
Music alone could express the yearning that haunted her heart, the plaint of the Rhine Maidens was the nearest to what she felt, and she began to sing their song.
And all the while there grew within him a mightyyearning and longing after the maiden he had seen.
A yearning for that which one has never known, for distant places, for the sunshine which instinct tells us we must breathe.
She remembered her yearning for fame and love; now she had both, love and fame.
The autumn-tinted landscape, the vicissitudes of the woods, and the plaintive air brought a tender yearning into her mood, and she contrasted the lives of those poor, holy women with her own life.
She felt a sympathy awaken in her for her own sex which she had never known before, and this yearning was confounded in a desire to be among those who knew nothing of her past.
How she had waited in this room for her father to come back to dinner; the faintness of those hungry hours; worse still, that yearning for love.
It happened to be the note she had to sing when the curtain goes up and Isolde lies on the couch yearning for Tristan, for assuagement of the fever which consumes her.
A few hours after he was at the summit, and his heart beat with a sweet joy at the sight of a place to which his yearning soul had long turned.
Nevertheless, from the moment of his entering into the priory, Meinrad had felt a yearning in his heart for a life more secluded, in which he could pray and meditate without distraction.
There was an unspoken yearningin his face that was almost pain.
I go to bed, and every morning when I rise," I will think with yearning love of you and of my blessed babies!
We pursued the canteen route quite frequently throughout the day, and each time I would gaze at the treats, yearning for a taste of something.
There was that in the twilight place, or in the strangeness, the horror, and the yearning that had kept company with me that day, or in the dull weariness of a mind and body overwrought of late, which made thought impossible.
There was a fierce yearning and a hopelessness in his voice and bent head and outstretched arm that lent for the time a tragic dignity to the pageant, evil and magnificent, of his life.
Like the nightingale's notes, when the fragrance of the rose intoxicates her yearning young heart with desire, they floated in the evening twilight.
In the great opera-house a terrible yearning came on him to see his son.
To be lonely, and grow older and older, yearning for a soul to speak to!
The emotions in him were so, violent and so mixed that he dared not move--resentment, despair, and yet a strange yearning for the comfort of her hand on his forehead.
We know nothing as to the fate of Pons and his disciples, but their numbers and activity were a manifestation of the pervading disquiet and yearning for a change.
So rapt was his look while he stood there that there came into his face an expression of yearning sentiment that made it almost human.
The light and the perfume of that enchanted spring seemed suddenly to envelop her, and moved by a yearning to recapture them for an instant, she drew closer to him, and slipped her hand through his arm.
So many things have changed," said Virginia, and her eyes, as she gazed up at the blue sky over the market, had a yearning look in them.
It was almost a year now since she had started it, and into the luxuriant sprays and garlands there had passed something of the restless love and yearning which had overflowed from her heart.
It is his last recorded utterance to his brethren after the flesh, weighty, and full of repressed yearning and sorrow.
Not because he was a man of great authority at Candace's court, but because he was yearning for light, and ready to follow it when it shone, did the eunuch meet Philip on that quiet road.
What a glimpse ofyearning love which cannot bear to give Israel up as hopeless, that simple detail gives us!
There is something pathetic in the persistence with which, in place after place, Paul goes through the same sequence, his heart yearning over his brethren according to the flesh, and hoping on, after all repulses.
And may we not say that the yearning of the servant is caught from the example of the Master?
His whole soul ran over in yearning desire for the salvation of them all.
Though yearning for the truth--as the soul yearns for a knowledge of hereafter--I dared not trust myself to demand it.
Though yearningfiercely for vengeance, he had no thought of seeking it in that way; and in what fashion he was to find it, he had as yet conceived no distinct idea.
It is not in man's nature to behold such beauty, without yearning to possess it.
With the reviving year her passion became a yearning of such intensity that it seemed to exhaust her frame.
She knew now the warm yearningfor his presence which at Ullswater had never troubled her, and it was too late.
Wandering at Morn Wandering at morn, Emerging from the night from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee harmonious Union!
The tongues of violins, (I think O tongues ye tell this heart, that cannot tell itself, This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself.
Oh for a love, for a yearning love, that will never, never tire!
The poor Coney would stand mournfully holding the handle of her instrument of torture, longing with a yearning unspeakable to sit down and give it up for ever.
I nothing and yet all possessed, Yearning for truth and in illusion blest.
I feel, this moment, a mighty yearning To expound for once the ground text of all, The venerable original Into my own loved German honestly turning.
As his belief in family was slowly being restored he felt the sad yearning to be in that clan of what was no more, and to grow old and die among them like the departed.
Clearly he wanted to move to a different seat so in that sense of knowing his own dominant yearning and witnessing it unopposed by contrary yearnings he was not ambivalent at all and yet, he asked himself, how could he just go?
It was a yearning to be, if only in proximity, in some way connected to the lives of laborers within who were going home to meet family for the long weekend of Father's Day, the king's birthday.
Both were bodies and he had an inexorable yearning to see this Boi 1 naked, to devour and be devoured in wetness, unity, and sensation with him.
When I got up to go, she went to the front steps with me, and at the last yearning minute a warm tear had splashed on the back of my hand.
Yearning like a shipwrecked mariner for home news, I led Barton on to talk of Glendale and the various happenings in the little town during my long absence.
She could only repeat this simple prayer, for the yearning at her heart could find no other words; but her bosom heaved as though it would burst the bodice, and her hands and arms, with her whole frame, trembled violently.
