Longing Sentence Examples

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  • It was strange sitting beside him and longing for him to come back.

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  • Struck by longing, she gave a soulful sigh.

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  • A tiny voice whispered a warning about the longing that consumed her.

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  • He lowered his head to her neck, breathing in her scent with a mix of longing and anger.

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  • Sometimes, she heard longing in his voice, the same yearning she experience for him.

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  • Sofia watched her take a bite of a muffin, at once longing and agitated.

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  • Apparently he saw the longing there, because he slowly leaned down and kissed her lips.

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  • No good could come of longing for things a person could never have.

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  • I took the book in my hands and tried to feel the letters with an intensity of longing that I can never forget.

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  • But the most characteristic passage of the epopee is the mysterious disappearance of Shah Kaikhosrau, who suddenly, when at the height of earthly fame and splendour, renounces the world in utter disgust, and, carried away by his fervent longing for an abode of everlasting tranquillity, vanishes for ever from the midst of his companions.

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  • In 1514 the archbishopric of Mainz fell vacant again, and Albert of Brandenburg, already archbishop of Magdeburg and administrator of Halberstadt, longing to add it to his possessions, was elected.

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  • Still unsatisfied, longing always for a certainty that seemed ever just beyond his grasp, he had added vigil to vigil, and penance to penance, until at last, when to the wondering view of others he had become more than a saint, his bodily strength and his indomitable resolution and faith had together suddenly and completely broken down.

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  • There was passion and a deep longing she innately understood only she was able to fill.

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  • A book of stories of adventure on the sea, which he read over and over again when a boy, had filled him with a longing for a seafaring life.

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  • It appears from Craig's letter, to which we may therefore assign the date 3589, that, five years before, he had made an attempt to reach Uranienburg, but had been baffled by the storms and rocks of Norway, and that ever since then he had been longing to visit Tycho.

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  • Biographers have delighted to relate how painfully Demosthenes made himself a tolerable speaker, - how, with pebbles in his mouth, he tried his lungs against the waves, how he declaimed as he ran up hill, how he shut himself up in a cell, having first guarded himself against a longing for the haunts of men by shaving one side of his head, how he wrote out Thucydides eight times, how he was derided by the Assembly and encouraged by a judicious actor who met him moping about the Peiraeus.

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  • The good doctor had travelled much, and the reading of his itineraries and note-books awakened such a longing for travel in the young Holberg that at last, at the close of 1704, having scraped together 60 dollars, he went on board a ship bound for Holland.

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  • He lay down on the edge of it and I burned with longing to caress him and lie down too.

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  • That bittersweet chocolate gaze mesmerized her, filled her with a longing that he would not satisfy.

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  • All derived existence, however, has a drift towards, a longing for, the higher, and bends towards it so far as its nature will permit.

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  • He took a disgust to the world and its occupations, and experienced a longing to give himself over to an ascetic life.

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  • At the same time the longing for radical reform and the belief that it would be easy were almost universal.

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  • It also encouraged the growth of a community life, which eventually gave birth to an intense longing for national life.

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  • This yearning is a dumb unintelligent longing, which moves like a heaving sea in obedience to some dark and indefinite law, and is powerless to fashion anything in permanence.

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  • She tipped her head back, longing for him to kiss her the way he used to.

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  • She imagined he went to her apartment to check on Toby and was struck by her longing to return to the tiny, cluttered mess of a life that was hers.

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  • In England the younger Henry had built himself up a party among the more turbulent section of the baronage, who remembered with regret and longing the carnival of licence which their fathers had enjoyed under King Stephen.

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  • I know you think I have all this longing inside me, but I don't.

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  • With that sudden rush of excitement came the realization that she had gone an entire day without longing for him.

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  • The chief associates of Eros are Pothos and Himeros (Longing and Desire), Peitho (Persuasion), the Muses and the Graces; he himself is in constant attendance on Aphrodite.

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  • Neoplatonism owes its form to Plato, but its underlying motive is the widespread feeling of self-despair and the longing for divine illumination characteristic of the age in which it appears.

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  • Louis Napoleon could feel vaguely the state of public opinion in France, the longing for glory from which it suffered, and the deep-rooted discord between the nation and the king, Louis Philippe, who though sprung from the national revolution against the treaties of 1815, was yet a partisan of peace at any price.

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  • Seized in his turn with a longing for the cardinals hat, Dubois paid for it by the registering of the bull Unigenitus and by the persecution of the Jansenists which the regent had stopped.

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  • Savor every moment of the present instead of longing for the future.

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  • The longing to arrive at the one explanation of all things, which had inspired the older philosophers, became less earnest; the belief, indeed, that any such explanation was attainable began to fail.

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  • In September, 1786 Goethe set out from Karlsbad - secretly and stealthily, his plan known only to his servant - on that memorable journey to Italy, to which he had looked forward with such intense longing; he could not cross the Alps quickly enough, so impatient was he to set foot in Italy.

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  • The chief responsibility for this rests with the worldly College of Cardinals, who were longing to return to France, and thence drew their inspiration.

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  • His disappointed ambition prompted him to take the step for which his countrymen were longing, for they too were grumbling at the withdrawal of the "presents," in other words the veiled ransom-money, which for many years they had been accustomed to receive.

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  • Paul's shrinking from the disembodied state and longing to be clothed upon at death in 2 Cor.

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  • But the longing for these pledges of the divine assistance was insatiable.

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  • They have a longing to know God, to follow God, to pursue holiness.

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  • This longing to distinguish themselves, to maneuver, to overthrow, and to cut off showed itself particularly whenever the Russians stumbled on the French army.

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  • In this period of degeneracy there were none the less an awakening to religious needs and a profound longing for a new revelation of truth, which should satisfy at once the intellect and the religious emotions.

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  • But when we look at the deeper side of the Messianic conception in the Psalter of Solomon, at the heartfelt longing for a leader in the way of righteousness and acceptance with God which underlies the aspirations after political deliverance, we see that it was in no mere spirit of accommodation to prevailing language that Jesus did not disdain the name in which all the hopes of the Old Testament were gathered up.

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  • She felt a deep sense of loneliness and longing.

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  • Moreover, he had no very pronounced political ambition, and was an utter stranger to that longing for power, which drives so many men of talent to adopt extreme expedients.

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  • In the splendid balance of his nature the Virgilian longing, rerum cognoscere causas, could never indeed wholly silence the call to exercise his active powers.

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  • He began to be haunted by a strange curiosity about the unpardonable sin, and by a morbid longing to commit it.

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  • There was no bloodlust, but rather a longing that gripped him and clouded his thoughts.

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  • He should be fighting bloodlust by now, yet it had simply disappeared, replaced by longing for something more, a yearning to be part of this woman, to be everything to her, and for her.

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  • Even so, he couldn't help the longing he felt when he'd seen her, vulnerable, defeated, alone.

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  • Curiously absent from this list is any sort of longing for those experiences that the computer cannot easily supply.

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  • Such Longing is danced to the achingly beautiful meditations of Chopin's Nocturnes and Etudes, which are played live.

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  • My longing grows for you grows fierce, Breathlessly, I await you.

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  • Deidre's eyes drifted to Darkyn in a sense of longing.

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  • Standing in the kitchen with the man meant to be her mate, she couldn't help feeling a small kernel of longing deep inside her.

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  • Guitar bows and pigeon coos and where is the lowest level of fondness and longing and sorrow in a house?

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  • Sometime he hath enlarged your soul with ardent and longing desires after him, and satisfied you with the fatness of his house.

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  • Being childless, and with a husband who could not command her respect, her longing for affection led her to form various intimate friendships, above all with the princesse de Lamballe and the comtesse Jules de Polignac, who soon obtained such an empire over her affections that no favour was too great for them to ask, and often to obtain.

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  • But, though learned and studious, she was intriguing and ambitious, and ready to go to any lengths to gratify her longing for power.

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  • Prince Andrew was watching these men abashed by the Emperor's presence, and the women who were breathlessly longing to be asked to dance.

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  • Petya rode beside him, longing to look round to see whether or not the French were running after them, but not daring to.

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  • He gave the ship a longing look, worried he will never see her again.

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  • In 630 he abandoned the secular life and entered the monastery of Chrysopolis (Scutari), actuated, it was believed, less by any longing for the life of a recluse than by the dissatisfaction he felt with the Monothelite leanings of his master.

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  • Though he is wanting in moderation and in luminous warmth, his tones are by no means always harsh; and as an author he ever aspired with longing after humility and love and patience, though his whole life was lived in the atmosphere of conflict.

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  • In contrast " One Of These Days " is a slow almost breathless song telling of desperate longing for better times.

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  • It doesn't really matter what the answer is, because the film does capture an ethereal sense of nostalgic longing for faded glory.

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  • People who worship idols are longing for something to bring them satisfaction in life.

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  • He becomes lethargic; nothing except his longing interests him.

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  • The longing expressed by people looking toward the new age of the Messiah are the longing expressed by people looking toward the new age of the Messiah are the longings of people today.

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  • Faith is not a wistful longing, or a blind confidence, or even " inward conviction.

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  • Overall there is a sense of a nostalgic longing to regain innocence lost personified in the idealized Emma.

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  • Reflective, even somewhat grave and mournful, it is full of unfulfilled longing.

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  • But zebra Marty feels restless, longing for life in the wild.

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  • It is true that he had a passionate longing to fellowship with them.

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  • This has always been the deepest longing of the redeemed soul.

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  • No year had passed since the appearance of Leviathan without some indignant protest against the influence which its trenchant doctrine was calculated to produce upon minds longing above everything for civil repose; but after the Restoration " Hobbism " became a fashionable creed, which it was the duty of every lover of true morality and religion to denounce.

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  • On Tuesday Michael Howard captured the mood of a nation longing for something better than this shambles of a government.

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  • At the wedding feast Eochaid 's younger brother Ailell was suddenly smitten with a desperate love and longing for Etain.

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  • And smite upon that thick cloud of unknowing with a sharp dart of longing love; and go not thence for thing that befalleth.

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  • The senior citizens shared stories of the events that made them the mostnostalgic and filled with longing for the past.

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  • Middle school students in particular often struggle with finding a balance between being true to their own identity while still longing for the approval of a parent.

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  • There's nothing wrong with any of these things, of course, but most women would admit to a longing for some indulgence every now and then.

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  • For those longing to create the look of large eyes, these techniques and tricks are your new secret weapons!

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  • You will find 100 teenage love poems on this site, everything from falling in love, losing love, and the longing to find it again.

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  • There are many wonderful, loving dogs longing for a home/family of their own, and you sound like you have a lot of love to give.

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  • Doggie tuna casserole is sure to be a welcome treat for the dog longing for something besides plain kibble.

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  • Smooth hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens) - Most people think of hydrangeas as shrubs for shade, but if you've got a sunny garden and are longing to grow hydrangeas, consider planting a smooth hydrangea variety.

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  • If you are looking for a solid red table wine with enough complexity to keep you from longing for its pricier cousins, give the Yellow Tail Shiraz a try.

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  • They naturally feel a physical longing to smell, cuddle, and rock their infant.

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  • Those longing for the good old, excessive days of the 1980's, seemingly have a board short just for them.

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  • If you're lucky enough to have the money, you can fulfill her dream of a weekend in Paris or his longing to drive a race car.

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  • So when one partner is ambitious, say at work and the other partner is longing to be with him, miscommunication is inevitable.

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  • However, if she has been longing for a new appliance, especially something expensive such as refrigerator, buying it as a Valentine's Day gift may be seen as an act of love.

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  • It may be the simple longing, common to all romantics, that a relationship will not be temporary - that there can be such a thing as a love that lasts.

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  • Now that you are gone, I am left with just the empty jacket and the lingering, longing your scent evokes.

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  • They simply can't help longing for it; it's the way they're wired.

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  • Even today, this familiar theme may bring a pang of longing to anyone who loved the show as a child.

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  • While she meets a colorful cast of characters there, she eventually finds herself longing for home, where things are safe and secure.

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  • However, if you are longing for a pair of made to measure or custom shoes, a manufacturer's representative will need to take a series of measurements to ensure the perfect fit.

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  • You may be longing to wear a sexy, sky-scraping stiletto heel, but that may not be your best choice for a long ceremony.

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  • If you are longing to talk about the fascinating residents of Pine Valley, consider joining an All My Children discussion group.

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  • She spends a long time regretting that decision and longing to be with Adolfo, the poor soldier she loves.

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  • The best telenovelas feature a mixture of longing passion, familial interference, class and economic barriers as well as reckless choices and the consequences that follow.

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  • Nikki broke off her engagement to Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) and left town abruptly leaving her family longing for her return.

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  • George saved a heart patient in one elevator while Derek and Meredith spent a number of longing moments riding up and down the hospital floors.

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  • Erica's longing for father Eric's love remains a personal demon of the character and serves to fuel her lust for romance and love.

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  • The series even hit all the right notes with the longing for romance that Deb experienced when former fiance Grayson came to work at Jane's firm.

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  • Jane/Deb's life continues to be complicated by a secret husband, her potential love interest in Tony Nicastro and her continued longing for Grayson, who begins to cherish his friendship with Jane.

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  • The biological tie between the women separated Jill's son Billy Abbott from Katherine's granddaughter Mackenzie, leaving the would-be lovers longing for each other for years.

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  • This dynamic duo "play to nourish a longing in the heart for that which never dies - the experience of love and meditation."

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  • Through the use of games, along with his motivation and longing for relationships, this boy developed friendships for the very first time.

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  • Nylon and mesh ones seem a bit more playful, as if you plan to attack your lover with a pillow and wrestle for a while before exchanging any kisses or longing looks.

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  • Whether you're on old-school rap fan longing for the days of "Gin and Juice" or are just looking for some good beats, a Daz Thang MP3 download will fit the bill.

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  • The song perfectly portrays the longing felt by those who are apart for the holidays.

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  • From the first scene to the last, this distinctly new vision of Harry Potter's world is the artistic triumph that non fans have been longing for in the films.

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  • Hitherto very much an observer of life, pottering about his house and reading books to satisfy his longing for adventure, Bilbo discovers that real-life (well, fantasy-life) adventure is often uncomfortable and even scary.

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  • Eowyn nurses a longing for Aragorn, but when he is committed to Arwen, she moves on.

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  • If you're longing for the days when your hands didn't feel dried out or even painful, finding your ideal hand lotion will take you a long way in recovering your youth.

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  • The actual church is always falling short of its profession; but its successive reformations witness to the strength of its longing after the beauty of holiness.

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  • The country which, in half-a-dozen years, had seen a radical reform of parliament, a no less radical reform of municipal corporations, the abolition of slavery, and the reconstruction of the poor laws, was longing for a period of political repose.

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  • They felt no longing for the little village sleeping in the distance beyond the majestic waste of water.

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  • For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

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  • The longing soul of the child of God can only be satisfied with Himself.

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  • Seized with a longing to pursue and kill the Moor on account of his insulting language, Ignatius, still doubting as to his best course, left the matter to his mule, which at the dividing of the ways took the path to the abbey, leaving the open road which the Moor had taken.

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  • In a prayer addressed to " First birth of my birth, first beginning (or principle) of my beginning, first spirit of the spirit in me," he prays " to be restored to his deathless birth (genesis), albeit he is let a.nd hindered by his underlying nature, to the end that according to the pressing need and spur of his longing he may gaze upon the deathless principle with deathless spirit, through the deathless water, through the solid and the air; that he may be re-born through reason (or idea), that he may be consecrated, and the holy spirit breathe in"him, that he may admire the holy fire, that he may behold the abyss of the Orient, dread water, and that he may be heard of the quickening and circumambient ether; for this day he is about to gaze on the revealed reality with deathless eyes; a mortal born of mortal womb, he has been enhanced in excellence by the might of the All-powerful and by the right hand of the Deathless one," &c.

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  • It'll pass incredibly quickly, and you may find yourself longing for those days when your baby cooed at you from his crib.

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  • Frustrated with your makeup and longing to look like the airbrush makeup enhanced models you see in magazines?

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  • In an ideal world, every death is a sad one and longing for and missing the deceased is a constant.

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  • Longing for that signature Gwen Stefani platinum blonde hair look?

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  • It gives them a moment to recapture the essence of home that they have been longing for every night.

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  • I felt such sadness and longing as I described what I was seeing that I was on the verge of tears," he explains.

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  • Probably it is fused with the D, Deuterocerebrum, consist protocerebrum, and may also be ing of ganglion cells be concerned in the history of the very longing to the second or peculiar paired eyes of Peripatus, mandibular somite.

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  • In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing was for earthly love.

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  • The soul must be immaterial since it has the power of cognizing the universal; and its immortality is further based by St Thomas on the natural longing for unending existence which belongs to a being whose thoughts are not confined to the " here " and " now," but are able to abstract from every limitation.

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