Sentence examples for earnestly long from inspiring English sources

It is hardly fair to claim that Orwell did not earnestly long for the emancipation of the working classes; he did.

May your soul be surrounded by the love and joy you so earnestly longed for.

Reporters asked earnestly how long it would take defenses to catch up.

Al disadvantages: He'd talk to your parents too earnestly for too long.

People listen earnestly to hour-long teach-ins and, between speakers, interrogate a range of issues.

For some reason, this is a strategy the United States has not pursued earnestly in quite a long time.

"After looking long and earnestly at one picture depicting Eve pensively reclining on a rock," said the Times article, which ran on the front page, "Mr. Wakefield decided to act".

By D. L. Stevenson and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, April 25 , 1936P. 9 A man and wife and their little girl stopped and looked long and earnestly at the Wrigley's sign.

In late April 1647, he prayed for a let-up in the rain: "The weather was very wett, the season very sad and had continued so very long, I earnestly entreated God for faire weather" – and when fair weather arrived a few days later, he registered his sense of divine goodness.

we [the first Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles] have pleaded long and earnestly in behalf of these, our faithful brethren, spending many hours in the Upper Room of the Temple supplicating the Lord for divine guidance.

As a high school student during the psychedelic Sixties, he earnestly asked classmates to focus long enough to become Young Republicans.