" Notwithstanding all I had undergone—the bodily fatigue, the perturbation of spirits, the exposure to weather—it seemed that I was better: the fever, the real malady which had oppressed my frame, was abating; for, whereas during the last nine days I had taken no solid food, and suffered from continual thirst, this morning, on breakfast being offered, I experienced a craving for nourishment: an inward faintness which caused me eagerly to taste the tea this lady offered, and to eat the morsel
Thin in face and figure, sallow in complexion, regular in features, with perfect teeth, lips like a thread, a large, prominent chin, a well-opened, but frozen eye, of light at once craving and ingrate.
At that time, I well remember whatever could excite—certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the being I was always lulling, and stirred up a craving cry I could not satisfy.
They satisfy some craving in me as no other flower does.
Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!
Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
With all the hurry of an imagination that could never rest in the present, she sat in the deepening twilight forming plans of self-humiliation and entire devotedness; and in the ardor of first discovery, renunciation seemed to her the entrance into that satisfaction which she had so long been craving in vain.
There was a craving which he would not account for to himself, to have Maggie near him, without delay,—she must come back by the coach to-morrow.
But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery.
I believed him capable of uprooting from his heart, though it might be with agony, so that he was left battered and ensanguined, anything that came between himself and that uncomprehended craving that urged him constantly to he knew not what.
Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
Why this craving for change?
Her thoughts being still chiefly fixed on what she had with such causeless terror felt and done, nothing could shortly be clearer than that it had been all a voluntary, self-created delusion, each trifling circumstance receiving importance from an imagination resolved on alarm, and everything forced to bend to one purpose by a mind which, before she entered the abbey, had been craving to be frightened.
She might also expound to her her peculiar dislike of people's husbands, and her profound craving to be, at least for this one month, let alone.
The dog looked foolish, and probably felt so; but there was resentment in his heart, too, and a craving for revenge.
A Chinese food craving is a powerful thing — just ask Officer Jason Inacio of the Newark Police Department.
How could merely activating the small muscles of our fingers leave us craving the couch at the end of the day?
Instead of eating when you are bored or when are having a craving have 1-2 glasses of water.
After holiday indulgences, I am craving salad.
Chinese Name:Ying dish : Function: To satisfy a craving for delicious food : Attributes: Meat in large chunks and ingredients in bulk : Cooking Requirements: Mom's cooking / Highly rated restaurant's cooking :、 Eating Methods: To gobble and devour : Applicable Environments: Necessary to northern Chinese : In northern China, ying dishes refer to those which are distinctive and delicious enough to show your sincerity when you entertain guests.
