Sentence Examples:
It gives me a qualm of nostalgia even to name those places now.
Tall and straight under his seventy odd years, sickened with a terrible nostalgia away from his mountain home, he listened mute and turned away without a word, bowed with grief and too much moved to risk speaking lest tears should shame him.
The consumptive men about town who are sent to the South die, their end due to the change in their habits and to the nostalgia for the Parisian excesses which destroyed them.
She could only be doing it from the nostalgia of adventurous debauch.
Nothing will, perhaps, demonstrate more fully the effects of moral causes in producing disease than the structural alterations discoverable in the bodies of those who have died whilst laboring under nostalgia, or the Swiss malady.
All round these narrow streets there was an atmosphere of exhaustion and disorder, crushed on top of one another, which oppressed one so much after the open streets, that an immense nostalgia suddenly swept over me.
I fancy that there are picturesque old houses on the outskirts of the town, but with that wall paper and a terrible nostalgia occupying my mind, I was in no state to judge of what was there.
He was taken with nostalgia; a love for his Icelandic home.
Those moods of nostalgia and rebellion fused finally in an imperious need to relive my school days on paper, to put it all down, term by term, exactly as it had been, to explain, interpret, justify my point of view.
Recently, nostalgia for homespun cookery has meant a change in status for potpies.
And so a great nostalgia had come over Shane Campbell on this voyage for the Syrian port and the wife he had married there.
From long residence near the equator he diagnosed the outbreak as a case of tropic choler, aggravated by nostalgia and fleas.
Eating something reminiscent of a fish, whether farmed or synthetically produced, while having video nostalgia for fishing is not an exception.
Was this another, different civilization, that had risen at last in anger, using its own methods of allergy, terrible repellant nostalgia, and mental distortions?
A real "old resident," who has pushed his rootlets far and wide, and never tried any other soil or aspect, is very slow to settle elsewhere, even if he does not die of nostalgia and nervous shock!
Nor is this nostalgia of the frozen north confined to its aboriginal inhabitants, for most explorers who return from its fastnesses experience sooner or later a keen desire to return.
A man of fifty, with a sense of beauty, born and bred in the country, suffers fearfully from nostalgia during a long unbroken spell of London; so that his afternoon in the old Abbey had been almost holy.
Somebody had passed her, speaking German, and she was overwhelmed by a rush of nostalgia.
Reticence was second nature to the plotter who had just heard of the growing power of a new enemy, but there was wine for dinner and a sympathetic listener, and under the ache of nostalgia and the need of outpouring, his discretion for once weakened.
Ever since her eyes have made a part of my life, I have known what nostalgia for Brittany means, and the infinite mournfulness with which it permeates a human being.
Greece, Poland, Hungary, Ireland, prove this, and the nostalgia is strongest in those of Celtic origin.
She looked back with a touch of nostalgia on the busy schooldays, and mourned anew for Elsie, who had allowed her to give love.
He vacillated between doing nothing and dreaming, between contemplating the emptiness of a grotesque reality and the nostalgia of an unreal life, felt but not seen.
Where the other found unfailing interest he would have suffered from unrelieved ennui, and would have been continually looking back, with the intolerable longing of nostalgia, to the occupations of his English home.
With his eyes constantly turned toward a point which he begins to imagine he shall never gain, he sinks, in spite of himself, into a species of gloomy nostalgia, which the sight of the wished for port is alone powerful enough to dissipate.
There were moments when he felt drawn away from life by a heavenly nostalgia, sustained by a realization of spiritual worth which, at other times, increased his sense of guilt by adding the sin of pride to the many others for which he atoned.
Depression was its best ally, and then came nostalgia, the homesickness which men who have never experienced sneer at, but which is the bane of armies, and which in the Cuban campaign helped kill more men than the bullets of the Spaniards.
All were the victims of pathological nostalgia, deep, disconsolate grieving and the post-traumatic shock of being uprooted and objectified.
To one in love with color, these passages leave a very nostalgia for the bright and sophisticated Court where such things could be.
There is nostalgia in it, the nostalgia of a sick, lacerated soul.
I smiled with nostalgia when the fifth fingers of his hands, four times as long as the others, uncurled as he spun about the cage.
If, however, he is destined for some dull unromantic post in the city, the thought of school will for a long time wake in him a deep, hopeless nostalgia.
"I thought perhaps it might bring happy memories and prove a palliation of nostalgia."
In the early spring Regina had a recrudescence of nostalgia and discontent.
Despairing of the conditions due to modern commercialism, it is not unnatural that lovers of beauty should look back with nostalgia to the age when society was controlled by a landed aristocracy.
And over his soul passed the nostalgia of the distant isles, the isles embalmed by the mastic, and which at the very moment, perhaps, were sending all their nocturnal delights on the breeze to swell the great sail.
I begin to have nostalgia for my inkstand, my study, my proofs.
I sank in my place, a sickening nostalgia for her upon me.
Learnedly called nostalgia; but call it by any name you please, like a stray dog, it is pretty sure to come.
"Dear child, dear child," Anastasia returned affectionately, almost wistfully, for nostalgia of youth is great in those who, though bravely acquiescent, are no longer young.
Prosper was at once seized with an uncontrollable desire to share the cart seat with the farmer, and return to that secluded spot over yonder, nostalgia for which was already filling his heart with anguish.
We are not prepared, under pretext of spiritual nostalgia, to accept outworn formulas which would compel us to shun and to disavow the social order we owe to science, history, commerce, and democracy.
And that dreadful nostalgia, that sickening yearning for home, which so often kills, or, aided by the pitiless torrid sun, beating down upon devoted heads unused to a foretaste of hell, sends men with brains awry back to Frisco by the ship load.
Philip Martin, and that he was suffering from a combined attack of nostalgia and malaria, which might, not improbably, take a serious turn, and which could be best counteracted by the presence of his father or mother, or one equally dear to him.
He had suffered from tyranny and persecution; he was now suffering from nostalgia, and utter weariness of his uncongenial life.
He was too ignorant to know what was ailing him, body and mind; but nostalgia held him in its dread embrace, and life was becoming an insufferable burden to him.
It was only then that the mother gave delicate expression to the nostalgia of half a lifetime, the longing for her own kind, and the ways and thoughts and imponderable principles of her own caste.
A clearly ethnic type of melancholia is nostalgia or homesickness.
Characteristic of all primitive peoples was this nostalgia, and, far from being sentiment easily smothered, it was more often than physical ailment the predisposing, or even actual, cause of death when they were separated from their homes.
He had a nostalgia for the training camps that was actually physical; it was so acute that it sickened him.
There was something in the untidiness of those grimy houses, the smoky disorder of the backyards, that ran a thrill of nostalgia through me.
Nostalgia, bitterly sweet, of lost and unrecoverable nights, dream-lost beauty of Luna nights the blood-drenched holocaust.
The deep summery, rotten smell of the river brought a powerful nostalgia to Wales.
Scores of men who are to-day rotting in Cuban graves died of nostalgia, and might have lived if they had received the letters from home which were sent to them.
They were the victims of a genuine nostalgia, and also of a monomania, frustrated at present by the necessity of selling their tapes and bobbins before they could leave Paris.
A nostalgia of wide untenanted spaces, of far horizons, of emotions at once intimate and rooted in things eternal, was upon him.
And then, the nostalgia of predestined souls took hold of him.
He sat down on the bed and again looked about the room, and the dreariness of it filled him with nostalgia.