He spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : filled with longing for home. ,a sudden longing to see old friends. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a longing look. From Dictionary.com.
I even recall longingly looking at images of the beautiful spritework in Kirby's Adventure in an issue of Nintendo Power. From Wordnik.com. [Verbal Spew] Reference
And, the rest of the conference probably looked kind of longingly at Mike's team last night too. From Wordnik.com. [Nuke Gingrich] Reference
Looks longingly back, while the breast heaves a sigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
He looked longingly through the forest toward the Braes. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
Enid looked longingly toward the hill, then turned to Joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
One of the boys hung back, looking longingly at the water. From Wordnik.com. [Katy Hall: 'Kate Plus 8' On Bald Head Island: Exclusive Details On The Gosselin Family's Working Vacation] Reference
The scene ends with Betty staring longingly at a doll house. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Ep 5: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword] Reference
Jessie turned at the door and eyed the tempting box longingly. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
Hastings, longingly, and thus verified the skipper's prediction. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
They were sniffing longingly, and looking up at the suspended meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
He had lingered longingly over their boyhoods; their brief school times. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Standing there, he looked longingly up at the invisible bunch of grapes. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
If, at the last moment, a man's whole nature cries longingly in faith to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
"Wonder what Kiddie's havin 'for breakfast!" he said to himself longingly. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
He thought longingly, often, of the VALHALLA, and his lost life aboard her. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
The children sniffed the fragrance of the evergreen and eyed the candy longingly. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Odette dropped Farrah at her apartment, kissed her cheek, looked longingly at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter.] Reference
"It's ail right," conceded Pepper, "as far as it goes," looking longingly about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
Hungry and worn-out as they were, neither of them even once glanced at it longingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Daniel went up to Lauren and kissed her longingly on the cheek, squeezing her thigh. From Wordnik.com. [NAMASTE] Reference
With wildly beating heart Allen pressed a hand to his cheek and gazed longingly after her. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
Alene looked longingly at a pair of dainty moccasins that were now, alas, beyond her means. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
The Kid strolled over to the corral and looked longingly at the four horses tethered there. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
True, as a young woman I longingly viewed shop windows filled with pretty dresses and shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
After walking miles of product aisles, our team was looking longingly at the mobile coolers. From Wordnik.com. [2008 SEMA: Cruzin Cooler] Reference
So day after day she spied longingly and furtively upon the comings and goings of the big cat. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The girl looked back at them longingly; but she thought it best to trifle with the teacher no further. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Little Mrs. Ferris looked longingly towards the door and just then spied her husband who was seeking her. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
No child ever pined for the presence of its mother more longingly than she desired the society of Mary Fuller. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Ms. Birnbach looks longingly at the Croesian piles of the Google crowd and struggles to give them a preppy gloss. From Wordnik.com. [Preppy Pitfall: All That Madras, Not Enough Effort.] Reference
I looked longingly up the valley, but my way turned off to the right, following the pack-road to the ferry at Fulin. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
I was disconsolate at first and would look longingly up at the stars which were now, perhaps forever, beyond my reach. From Wordnik.com. [Man Made] Reference
The blue eyes followed her longingly as she danced away through the fresh clover and disappeared beyond the heavy gates. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
Warruk looked at them longingly for, to him a bird was a bird, and he remembered the tender partridges of more bountiful days. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
We don't usually go to malls, my father and I. I found a great pair of jeans and my father was longingly eyeing a pair for himself. From Wordnik.com. [He Oppressed me with Kindness] Reference
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