heart-longing

He wanted her with a great heart-longing that Robin but dimly comprehended but of which he was keenly conscious, made wise by the sympathy that linked them.

The Obstacle Race 1910

Each day my heart-longing for the girl I must not love grew stronger.

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

But to look at them is not to love them, and consequently they go through life with a terrible heart-longing unknown to their fellow-men, only known to the God above, who will doubtless reward these simple and earnest and remarkably beautiful souls in His own good time in another world.

A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884

He left her for a moment to make his arrangements; and for that moment Eleanor's thoughts leaped to those who should have been by her side at such a time, with a little of a woman's heart-longing.

The Old Helmet 1864

And even to Mrs. Derrick she did not tell the keen heart-longing, which daily grew more urgent, for that term to come to an end.

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

Eleanor's thoughts leaped to those who should have been by her side at such a time, with a little of a woman's heart-longing.

The Old Helmet, Volume II Susan Warner 1852