Longs

• Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The thing one most longs for may be surrounded with conditions that would be intolerable. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It longs for certainty and repose, and has little patience for any authority that does not claim absolute infallibility. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I have been born too late, for my soul is Athenian, and longs for the plane-trees of Ilissus. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He longs for majorities. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• She continued to look up exactly with the countenance of a child that longs for some prohibited dainty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Then his distress had overwhelmed him, and he longed for death as a field labourer longs for the shade. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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