longed

Example Sentences

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Longed so hard and bitterly for it that it became some taut tripwire strung within me where no one could see.

From Newsweek • May 28, 2012

Hickety, pickety, John Cabot Longed to discover a brand-new spot.

From Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 by Various

Longed almost—if she were once prepared and certain of herself—for even misfortune that should justify and make practicable her generous purpose.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Salt tears, and strange to shed, Over and o'er; Tears to my lady dead, Love do we send, Longed for, rememberèd, Lover and friend!

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

Now thou hast the thing thy heart Longed for, with the keenest smart.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm