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Death had been hovering about her windows before, but had entered at last; not to take the sickly young woman longing to die, but the hale man, who would have clung to the last edge of life. "He is taken, and I am left," she said abruptly, after a long pause. Her drawl had vanished: pain and grief had made her simple. "Then," I thought with myself, "she did love him!" But I could say nothing.
But it hadn't suited him to, and he had drunk to stupefy himself. It was no doubt from him that she inherited the longing to be alive and to live among the living. She could not take her eyes from the keen, alert face, and she felt a stream of life and power flowing to her from him.
He remembers every thing remembers oh, how bitterly! that, after all that has passed, his very presence in that room is an insult to her! He feels he ought to go yet an irresistible longing chains him to the spot. He moves toward the door. To reach it he must pass close to Enrica. When he is near the door he stops.
When he saw their hips quivering as they moved, desire and longing redoubled on him; and he puffed and snorted and he devoured them with his eyes, for he could not contain himself, repeating the while these two couplets, Furthermore he said, "I saw two charmers treading humble earth. * Two I must love an tread they on mine eyes."
They raise him up as a peasant farmer, but awake in him a longing for the town; they drive all the most energetic and independently thinking elements from the country into the towns, and rob the former of its forces. So that the progress of modern economic life has the effect of increasing the desolation and lonesomeness of the country rather than ending it.
"What a question! I am longing to commence, for so far everything has been preparation." "And a very brief preparation," said the professor, "if you come to think of how short a time it is since you dashed in upon us after dinner that evening with your news." "Well, don't reproach me, Landon." "Not I, my lad. I know what you must feel. All I want of you now is for you to play the stoic.
It was a great longing to visit once more this other land, the fair France of his birth, and the apparent impossibility of ever doing so, that made the white chief unhappy, and caused his people to regard him sorrowfully, as one troubled by an evil spirit.
A kind of physical love like that of animals; a longing to be in the presence of the one who is loved; an inexpressible wistfulness during absence; a silent cry of the inmost heart for the mother, like the lowing of a calf in the twilight;-this love, which was almost an animal instinct, agitated the shy, nervous, lean, uncouth and ugly boy.
Washington did not refuse the dictatorship, or, rather, the opportunity to take control of the country, because he feared heavy responsibility, but solely because, as a high-minded and patriotic man, he did not believe in meeting the situation in that way. He was, moreover, entirely devoid of personal ambition, and had no vulgar longing for personal power.
We are longing to see Quin and hear the latest, but he is down east." "What an oddity he is!" thoughtfully. "I liked him so much: but it is difficult to reconcile him with slumming." "He's one of the best. Every one loves him. And he does his slumming in quite a way of his own.
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