WordNet
adv. in a yearning manner; "he spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'" [syn: longingly, yearningly]
Usage examples of "with longing".
She remembered with longing the flounced green dress she had worn when she first came out of mourning, the dress she wore with the green plumed bonnet he had brought her and she recalled the approving compliments he had paid her.
The way her hands floated down and came to rest like falling flower petals filled him with longing.
Li, the clever Kendoros, and wily Uncle Hafiz, she could have wept with longing for them.
Until the earnest look morphed into something else, something loaded with longing and spiked with desire.
Images of her loved ones in the Fair Realm made her choke with longing and she suddenly stopped and hurled herself down among the boulders, digging her fingers into gravel.
Perhaps her baby was as filled with longing as was she for the sight of St.
For a small, slight man, Jake was sexually well-endowed, but he spent enough time fingering a spot which Tory afterwards discovered was her clitoris, and she was so slippery with longing that she hardly felt any pain after that first sharp thrust inside her.
Viviane, she thought with longing, Viviane would understand, or Raven, or any of us reared in the House of Maidens .