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Yearn

verb

(past & past part. yearned; pres. part. yearning)

Desire strongly or persistently. Synonyms: hanker, long.

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present. Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen. "I am pining for my lover"

Have affection for; feel tenderness for.

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"Yearn" Quotes from Famous Books

... awareness that Skipper must be considered as a god should be considered, and that this was no time to obtrude himself on Skipper. His heart was torn with desire, although he made no sound, and he continued only to yearn over the companion combing and to listen to the faint sounds ...

— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London

... ma make Mars John strop you, hit make my mine run back to ole Brer B'ar. Ole Brer B'ar, he got de swell-headedness hisse'f, en ef der wuz enny swinkin', hit swunk too late fer ter he'p ole Brer B'ar. Leas'ways dat's w'at dey tells me, en I ain't never yearn it 'sputed." ...

— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris

... waste! Mighty, and inhospitable, and stern; Hiding a meaning over which we yearn In eager, panting haste— Grasping and losing, Still being deluded ever by our choosing— Answer us Sphinx: What is thy meaning double But ...

— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor

... good they were! And, oh, how we watched the mails; But nobody writes of the quaint delights Of the sunny days and the merry nights Or tells us the things that we yearn to know— That art passed out with the long ago, And lost are the simple tales; Yet we all would happier be, I think, If we'd spend more time with ...

— All That Matters • Edgar A. Guest

... sez 'huh' again jes' ez she done befo'. Miss Mitty ain't de kind dat's gwinter eat her words, honey. W'at she sez, she sez, en she's gwinter stick up ter hit. The hull time I 'uz dar, I ain' never yearn nuttin' but 'huh!' pass thoo ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

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