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Meanings of passionate longing in English

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Usage of passionate longing in English
1
The greatness of the sin provoked the passionate longing to save her.
Great Possessions
2
The madman threw out his arms in a passionate longing for revenge.
"Unto Caesar"
3
With what passionate longing his hands hovered over Ophelia at her words:
The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
4
The man stretched out his arms with a gesture of passionate longing.
"Unto Caesar"
5
A wild passionate longing shook her as she rose to her feet.
Westways: A Village Chronicle
6
The quickest cure for a passionate longing is a cold woman.
Wise or Otherwise
7
She had an almost passionate longing for just one more year of home.
The Way of an Eagle
8
He had a passionate longing to clasp his arms about her.
A Little Girl in Old Detroit
9
He seemed overcome with the passionate longing to show his gratitude to Olsen.
The Desert of Wheat
10
But as he touched her he was seized with a mad, passionate longing.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
11
A passionate longing to be revenged upon this man began to consume her.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
12
But she looked at him now unobserved, with passionate longing.
The Sheik: A Novel
13
She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
14
With passionate longing I called her to my help.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
15
He hoped, with a passionate longing, that he might find it again, a third time.
Swann's Way
16
A passionate longing to be near her-totouch her-tospeak-tobe answered back again-seizes Luttrell.
Molly Bawn
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