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Example sentences for: longed

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The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.
Worse, I recognized a disparity between my idealized self and my actual self that I had last observed in the seventh grade when I was a gawky girl with frizzy hair and no breasts and longed to be Laura Dessner, a girl with a perfect Farrah Fawcett hairdo.
(And oh, how I longed for a detailed inside history of Netscape in The New New Thing . But, alas, it was nowhere to be found.
The real Hickam Sr. didn't want his son to be a miner but a mining engineer ; he longed to see the boy follow in his footsteps but to go beyond them, too, and to use his science to make people safer.
How I longed for the parade of proofs, the excitement of rewriting and perfecting!"