pined

She warn't ever the same, after that; she never complained, but she kind of pined away and did not live long. hat was bugging Mark Twain in 1876, to make him think up the benighted village of Deer Lick?

The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001

When Mrs. Bostock took the boy away, I began to worry and worry about him; I kind of pined for him.

The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

"I'm a-pinin '," many had "pined" for a "sweet kiss" from Salomy Jane, which she had yielded in a sense of honor and fair play.

Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869

Someone mentioned it earlier, but I have always pined for the restructuring of the West Coast into the state of Cascadia – that is all of the land west of the Cascades, which would run, Chilean fashion, from the Washington/British Columbia border to the Bay Area.

Matthew Yglesias » Imagine If 2010

Through my joyful tears, I once again pined to take a picture.

Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe: His Holiness -- A Questions of Ethics and Three Bows Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe 2011

FYI he will face a longer sentence than under the law you pined for and he wasn't legally drunk.

Getting Rid of the Ride-Free Zone « PubliCola 2010

I went back a few years ago for six months when my father was ill and literally pined for the forests and open spaces of the Northwest.

At the end of the trail (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Have Gunther who I would presume is still there get drunk one episode and sob to one of the girls about how for years he pined after a gorgeous employee and patron named Rachel Green.

Meghan O'Keefe: The Fantasy Friends Spin-Off That Could Solve All of NBC's Woes Meghan O'Keefe 2012

She pined for the return of the trans­la­tor who became mes­sianic in her eyes.

When the Translator Disappears, the Translation Withers and Dies Bill Yarrow 2011

Through my joyful tears, I once again pined to take a picture.

Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe: His Holiness -- A Questions of Ethics and Three Bows Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe 2011