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  • Given paper and pen, he wrote about his days on the life raft with Zamp, his capture, and his yearning for home.   (source)
    yearning = strong desire
  • But the moment passed and was followed by an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.   (source)
  • They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives.   (source)
    yearn = strongly desire or wish
  • I yearned to take giant military shears to it, snap! bitten off in an instant, and nothing left in my hands but spools of khaki which could weave only a plain, flat, khaki design, however twisted they might be.   (source)
    yearned = strongly desired
  • He yearned for a bed and sheets—but the only whiteness here was the slow spilt milk, luminous round the rock forty feet below, where Piggy had fallen.   (source)
  • I don't know how much longer I can continue to keep this yearning under control.   (source)
    yearning = strong desire
  • They play with her yearning to become one of them, taxing her energies until she begins to wane.   (source)
  • We reach the shelter of the reserves and yearn to creep in and disappear;—but instead we must turn round and plunge again into the horror.   (source)
    yearn = strongly desire
  • Every night I yearn for sleep, I strive for it; yet it flutters on ahead of me like a sooty curtain.†   (source)
  • At times like this, I yearn for the simpler days of yore, when Christmas meant watching Bob Hope sing his version of "White Christmas" as my parents and I slumped on the sofa in our summer clothes in the warm Newport Beach weather.†   (source)
  • As he gazed up at the awe-inspiring swings of the Trisolaran Pendulum Monument, Wang asked himself, Does it represent the yearning for order, or the surrender to chaos?†   (source)
  • And of his friend Gregor, who made no secret of his yearning to be home.†   (source)
  • It would be so easy to go to them for the love that I yearn.†   (source)
  • It yearns mightily for "freedom" and does all it can to escape.†   (source)
  • They speak of the schools with yearning and bravado; they want desperately to be selected.†   (source)
  • We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of—unconditional love, unconditional attention.†   (source)
  • Hatsue had been taken from his life by history, because history was whimsical and immune to private yearnings.†   (source)
  • It was "an expression of the yearning of a moisture-challenged climate"—at least that's what Willow had told him when she had first asked where he lived and he responded, he had to admit, with puffy pride: "The Gardens of Glenwood."†   (source)
  • I didn't think Pammy should be left entirely alone, but I also yearned to be in sight of Jess Clark's windows.†   (source)
  • I wondered if anyone had asked Wylie enriching questions, if I was creating the foundations for impossible yearning later in Duff's life.†   (source)
  • As someone who gave me The Crown of a Hero to read, which suggests a rather fanciful mind that yearns for adventure?†   (source)
  • A wife is allowed to yearn for her husband, and if a mother needs her daughters close, who can tell her no?†   (source)
  • The yearning, especially in her, became overwhelming.†   (source)
  • I toss and turn and yearn for her warmth and lie there most of the night, eyes open wide, watching the shadows dance across the ceilings like tumbleweeds rolling across the desert.†   (source)
  • He had nothing to miss, nothing to yearn for.†   (source)
  • Reading these letters at the end of an exhausting day, Briony felt a dreamy nostalgia, a vague yearning for a long-lost life.†   (source)
  • After wandering and drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years.†   (source)
  • They wanted to see the face of this little girl whose story they yearned to know.†   (source)
  • She yearned with all her soul to be borne off by her hands.†   (source)
  • I had never even let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap.†   (source)
  • The crowd's silence created a vacuum on the street, yearning to fill with breath, with sound, with anything.†   (source)
  • He came and went in a trance, yearning from the moment he arrived to return to the long-backed white girl who waited for him.†   (source)
  • Another part yearned for it still to be true.†   (source)
  • If I were spotted, I could be killed; but my yearning to see my father and brother overpowered reason.†   (source)
  • All during the anxiety of the previous week, as the apartment was being stripped and my mother's things were folded and boxed and carted off to be sold, I'd yearned for the darkness and repose of Hobie's house, its crowded rooms and old-wood smell, tea leaves and tobacco smoke, bowls of oranges on the sideboard and candlesticks scalloped with puddled beeswax.†   (source)
  • Fed up with the cramped conditions in his mother's apartment and their constant fights, yearning for some scrap of privacy, he has moved out and rented a bedroom in a trailer.†   (source)
  • I yearn to hear something, anything, another roar, Henri's shotgun, but there is nothing.†   (source)
  • As you say, eyes closed, far away, a look of yearning.†   (source)
  • Eragon gazed with yearning at the old man, who seemed to be only sleeping.†   (source)
  • It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.†   (source)
  • Meggie thought she saw contradictory feelings on the faces of Capricorn's men: fear of what Mo might bring to life and, at the same time, a wish, a yearning almost, to once more be carried away by his voice, transported far away to a place where they could forget everything, even themselves.†   (source)
  • I had certain yearnings at the time, which a lot of us had, to acquire authority in our own lives in the face of police, joblessness and powerlessness.†   (source)
  • No height was beyond her yearning neck, stretched like a finger toward his, risking everything outside the bowl just to touch his face.†   (source)
  • All those people craving for your words, yearning to see a glimpse into your soul ...it's exhilarating.†   (source)
  • Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.†   (source)
  • But when the Chairman and I returned to my apartment, we drank each other up with so much yearning and need that afterward I felt myself drained of all the things the Chairman had taken from me, and yet filled with all that I had taken from him.†   (source)
  • I had such a yearning to be out there.†   (source)
  • His anguish was plain; I yearned to comfort him, but I was at a loss to know how.†   (source)
  • The constant learning and yearning for knowledge was what helped her finally move away from the bustle of Philadelphia to settle into the quieter, safer suburb of Ewing with my sister Kathy.†   (source)
  • As they go about creating new technologies, I hope that once in a while I come into their minds, swinging that sledgehammer, reminding them of the frustrated masses, yearning for simplicity.†   (source)
  • To find what is missing
    Unravel the tie, twist and wind
    Cast this Bind
    So I may find
    That which I yearn for
    That which I seek.†   (source)
  • It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture.†   (source)
  • But I would linger in that narrow passage under the eaves, yearning to say something, to heal something.†   (source)
  • It tells of the young Heinrich who is searching for the 'blue flower' that he once saw in a dream and has yearned for ever since.†   (source)
  • I could hardly bear it, the sight of her yearning towards him, seeing her dying now, under this vampire's power.†   (source)
  • They are a mob of farmers' sons and boys who yearn to be factory workers.†   (source)
  • I yearned to taste each layer.†   (source)
  • He learn English total immersion English/Japanese be mergin' Into super combination So can have fans in every nation Hong Kong they speak English, too Yearn of rappers just like you Anglophones who live down under Sooner later start to wonder When they get they own rap star Tired of rappers from afar Lagos is lying on the ground, sprawled across the tire track.†   (source)
  • His legs ached sickeningly and he yearned for Novril.†   (source)
  • Only with Clara did she allow herself the luxury of giving in to her overwhelming desire to serve and be loved; with her, however slyly, she was able to express the secret, most delicate yearnings of her soul.†   (source)
  • Coach Brown picked up on Luma's yearning.†   (source)
  • As the winner sat down, a thrill swept through me—a yearning to achieve—more powerful than ever before.†   (source)
  • After the first month he had to establish a system of appointments made in advance so that he would not be swamped by yearning lovers.†   (source)
  • It was yearning for release.†   (source)
  • I yearned for my mother, and at the same time I understood that she had sent me to this place where I was an outcast.†   (source)
  • I had a great yearning, lately, to pay my father back for all the years of neglect, and start tending his grave.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Mrs. Livingston feels like Yetta, with her perpetual yearning.†   (source)
  • How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page?†   (source)
  • Yearning and wariness and hopefulness and love ...does Molly really see all this on Sarah's face, or is she projecting?†   (source)
  • A passing image, perhaps a memory, but one that filled him simultaneously with sadness and with yearning.†   (source)
  • Never had it occurred to him that there'd come a time when his whole soul would yearn for a handful of them.†   (source)
  • It was cosmic in nature, full of yearnings and Teachings.†   (source)
  • Maybe she sensed in his offer an intimacy he hadn't meant, or rather one he yearned for but hadn't meant to convey.†   (source)
  • Still hiding his addiction from his parents and closest friends, Adam couldn't ignore it himself At work, he couldn't concentrate and felt a quiver in his muscles, a yearning that, try as he might, he could not ignore.†   (source)
  • —far more than Ida could, and was far more at the mercy of his hatred; which, from ceaseless trampling down, yearned to go upward, blowing up the world.†   (source)
  • She also wanted more independence, yearned to be a grown-up, and resented her mother's efforts to rein her in.†   (source)
  • I wanted to drink Heath's sweet blood while he satisfied my yearning for his touch, his body, his taste— The disjointed image I had of darkness cleared with an abruptness that was shocking.†   (source)
  • But will she ever internally yearn for something she'll never have—a husband and family of her own?†   (source)
  • An overeager orderly with a yearning for gored-gored— raw beef— cut a thin and still quivering steak from the flank while the animal stood on glass legs.†   (source)
  • The women yearned to be as far away as possible from this place of bad memories.†   (source)
  • But in those restless moments she had turned toward her manchild and let the soft, sleeping flesh and the thought of all that he was and would be draw those yearnings onto the edge of her lips and the tips of her fingers.†   (source)
  • Dick had laughed, and confessed to a similar yearning: "I keep thinking what fun if my second wife had been there†   (source)
  • In those times when we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have.†   (source)
  • I loved his howl, which I could both hear and feel: long and plaintive, woebegone and heartsore, filled with yearning for what used to be and for what would never come again.†   (source)
  • And they're the ones that drive him crazy with yearning, the ones who dream in Technicolor but can't integrate fractions to save their lives.†   (source)
  • Yearned to meet him?†   (source)
  • In the Spaniard's heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own.†   (source)
  • Already he felt a yearning for woman's talk, and he had only been gone from Dallas a little more than a day.†   (source)
  • That all hearts yearn toward it, that old and young must give it love.†   (source)
  • I feel the ancient yearning for fire embedded deep in my genes.†   (source)
  • Now I yearned to go and I couldn't.†   (source)
  • Something that would've happened in a year anyway, once I left for college, but that no matter how many days or months or years I've yearned for it, I am still not prepared for when it actually happens.†   (source)
  • He yearned for one long embrace with Sabina, yearned never to say another sentence, another word, to let his orgasm fuse with the orgiastic thunder of music.†   (source)
  • In the fifteenth century, explorers yearned for...†   (source)
  • Paul was restive in his clumsy cast, and angry because he yearned to get back to his clinic in Cange.†   (source)
  • One time he blacked out all but the salutation 'Dear Mary' from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, 'I yearn for you tragically.†   (source)
  • They reached again and again for a high note, yearning toward a high note, which they found at last and held— an icicle in the desert.†   (source)
  • The Romantic movement of the 1820s brought back a yearning for narrow-waisted heroines like the ones in the novels of Sir Walter Scott (the Dan Brown of his day—though Sir Walter would not have dared dress a French heroine in a big sweater and black leggings, as Mr. Brown did poor Sophie Neveu inThe Da Vinci Code ), and corsets gained popularity while skirts became wider.†   (source)
  • Because however much of a Daphne you yearn to be, there is always your Ermintrude looking over your shoulder.†   (source)
  • Yet he yearned for the light to come closer—anything to drive away the dark.†   (source)
  • My own yearnings for footsie were severely tempered by my fear of the guards.†   (source)
  • The music was soft and languorous, and as much as I tried to deny it, part of me just yearned to be held.†   (source)
  • All over the world, children love their parents and yearn for love in return.†   (source)
  • Strider, too: his heart yearns for Minas Tirith, and he will be needed there, now Boromir has fallen into evil.†   (source)
  • In camp, and afterward, I would often recall with deep yearning the old round wooden table in our dining room in Ocean Park, the biggest piece of furniture we owned, large enough to seat twelve or thirteen of us at once.†   (source)
  • His body, under touch from all stimulation tonight, leans toward it, yearning.†   (source)
  • What had she done that she must spend the rest of her years reaching out with yearning for them, making secret trips to long ago, making no journey to the present?†   (source)
  • Johan raised his small fists in the air and wailed with greater intensity-a heartbreaking rendering of sorrow and yearning and anger and pleading for love.†   (source)
  • The Marine Corps and Bond Tour officials gave Ira a face-saving cover—one that ironically confirmed his press image as a fighting man who yearned for active duty: He was being sent back overseas "at his own request."†   (source)
  • And now that Vlad had had a taste, he knew he would always yearn for another.†   (source)
  • Clothes never meant a damn to her, but Eve caught herself yearning.†   (source)
  • Marcus laughs, a smug cackle that makes me yearn to stab him.†   (source)
  • She wished she could share the experience with the two people who had made her yearn to see Earth in the first place.†   (source)
  • Does the spread of California dialectical features across America—"oo" fronting, rising inflections, use of like and all as quotatives—mean that young people in the rest of the country yearn to be like Californians?†   (source)
  • But I could feel that his grip was also a way of clinging to me, that his eyes were also filled with yearning.†   (source)
  • I do think that for a moment Miss Love yearned towards him.†   (source)
  • An utterly stupid proposition, and these hands so lovingly trained to master a scalpel yearn to caress a trigger.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was one thing to yearn for it and another to hold it.†   (source)
  • During the Rivonia Trial, I remarked to a security policeman that if the government did not reform itself, the freedom fighters who would take our place would someday make the authorities yearn for us.†   (source)
  • He will always yearn to come back to the mother's breast, for that's where he was born.†   (source)
  • Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.†   (source)
  • Of late he had been reading the newspapers as if with a jeweler's eye, and had yearned for the opportunity to engage what he imagined might be nascent political talent.†   (source)
  • I know myself well enough to admit to yearnings, imaginings, and thoughts that can't be reduced to chemical reactions or electric impulses.†   (source)
  • She pulled me into the house, even as my eyes yearned to watch the butcher as he loped up the road to my village.†   (source)
  • GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,
    YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE,
    THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE.†   (source)
  • You yearn for normality—an average house in an average town, a garden, perhaps a wife, the chance to grow old.†   (source)
  • Just as we must understand your yearning for a united Ireland, so too must you understand what the best of unionism is about.†   (source)
  • They knew, she and Darling, what it was to yearn for love, or at least genuine understanding and acceptance.†   (source)
  • His grief was as great as it had been in the awful loneliness of the night, his despair as deep as he had ever known it, but though he had begun the day sunk in melancholy, yearning for death, he now wanted desperately to live.†   (source)
  • I suppose I should have realized that few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action.†   (source)
  • Before he made it, he would have said that he yearned for a larger tenure than any department could grant; to go with his professional tenure, a sort of life tenure.†   (source)
  • Thomas too has yearned to be a soldier.†   (source)
  • It was something I had been thinking about for a few years, as I still yearned to be in the woods, lakes, and rivers, where I was most happy and at peace.†   (source)
  • In an odd way, I think now that K wanted the same thing that I would yearn for all my days, which was her own place in the accepted order of things.†   (source)
  • His dreamy blue eyes looking down at me with concern just made me yearn for him even more.†   (source)
  • It satisfies the contradictory needs which consciousness experiences at times of extreme crisis, the need on the one hand for a truth telling that will be hard and retributive, and on the other hand, the need not to harden the mind to a point where it denies its own yearnings for sweetness and trust.†   (source)
  • There is a hunger deeper than the Red man's hunger for the song of the living forest, deeper than a blacksmith's yearning for the hot wet iron, deeper even than a doodlebug's longing for the hollow heart of the earth.†   (source)
  • She wrote me a yearning love letter my first semester at Alfred University and invited me down to her college.†   (source)
  • There was a yearning tenderness in her voice.†   (source)
  • I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every state I visited.†   (source)
  • I could make nothing definite of Angeline's high-pitched and yearning whine-cum-howl.†   (source)
  • Her mother wiped it off with her fingertip and unconsciously (from what yearning?) put it in her own mouth.†   (source)
  • We would sip Manischewitz and nibble on halvah, while my becloyed taste buds would desperately yearn for a bottle of Schlitz.†   (source)
  • I often thought about the chance that had shown me Yvette for the first time that evening in her house, in that atmosphere of Europe in Africa, when she had worn her black Margit Brandt blouse and had been lighted by the reading lamps placed on the floor, and every kind of yearning had been stirred in me by the voice of Joan Baez.†   (source)
  • Jan would never have believed that anything so simple or so commonplace could have evoked such yearning in his heart.†   (source)
  • No, something else from within him had died, something which already for a long time had yearned to die.†   (source)
  • And raise the level of the gall of yesterday
    Within the cup, by adding to it today's yearning.†   (source)
  • She pauses, looking out the window-then with an undercurrent of lonely yearning.†   (source)
  • And she turned into our faces that outrageous, yearning smile she had produced for the photographer.†   (source)
  • For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well-meaning clumsy young normal.†   (source)
  • To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration: We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples wil†   (source)
  • "Oh, I do want you to be happy," it began, with a yearning earnestness.   (source)
    yearning = having a strong desire
  • But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up.   (source)
    yearning = longing or strong desire
  • My desires are strangely compounded of yearning and misery.   (source)
    yearning = full of longing or tender emotion
  • Again, again–and it was not the ear that heard the pulsing rhythm, it was the midriff; the wail and clang of those recurring harmonies haunted, not the mind, but the yearning bowels of compassion.   (source)
    yearning = having a strong desire
  • When these peasants are excited they have a curious expression, a mixture of cow and yearning god, half stupid and half rapt.   (source)
    yearning = expressing strong desire for
  • The young woman pressed both hands to her left side, and on that peach-bright, doll-beautiful face of hers appeared a strangely incongruous expression of yearning distress.   (source)
    yearning = full of longing or tender emotion
  • Twelve yearning stanzas.   (source)
    yearning = expressing strong desire
  • All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings—greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance.   (source)
    yearning = strong desire
  • Thirty or forty bars-and then, against this instrumental background, a much more than human voice began to warble; now throaty, now from the head, now hollow as a flute, now charged with yearning harmonics, it effortlessly passed from Gaspard's Forster's low record on the very frontiers of musical tone to a trilled bat-note high above the highest C to which (in 1770, at the Ducal opera of Parma, and to the astonishment of Mozart) Lucrezia Ajugari, alone of all the singers in history, once piercingly gave utterance.   (source)
    yearning = having a strong desire
  • It cannot be that it has gone, the yearning that made our blood unquiet, the unknown, the perplexing, the oncoming things, the thousand faces of the future, the melodies from dreams and from books, the whispers and divinations of women; it cannot be that this has vanished in bombardment, in despair, in brothels.   (source)
    yearning = strong desire
  • Alec looked him over with a yearning he suspected was poorly disguised.†   (source)
    yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
  • Simon felt the same zing of energy, stronger this time, as if his body were yearning toward something his mind couldn't recall.†   (source)
  • The sky still yearns to embrace the earth.†   (source)
  • Every time I walked by the phone, I yearned to call.†   (source)
  • Your heart yearns to believe ....but your intellect refuses to permit it.†   (source)
  • Let your yearning to enter it flood from your mind to every particle of your body!†   (source)
  • In secret, in the night, he yearned for Killer.†   (source)
  • —I was done yearning for them, needing them to yearn for me.†   (source)
  • The kind of civilization you yearn for once existed on Trisolaris, too.†   (source)
  • She smiled, dimpling prettily, but the dark, humid eyes were full of yearning.†   (source)
  • Swaney, like most politicians, yearned to be liked.†   (source)
  • My three brothers would be coming home, and I yearned for them.†   (source)
  • If even the most clandestine love affair yearns for an audience, then of course I was theirs.†   (source)
  • For the past two days, I had yearned to cause fear in mortals again.†   (source)
  • But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him.†   (source)
  • Have I become unstable, that I can forget Cassie one moment, and yearn for her the next?†   (source)
  • And when I yearned for variety, more meerkats and fish than I could ever desire?†   (source)
  • Her body simultaneously yearned to close the gap between them and push him away.†   (source)
  • How far back it went I didn't know, for it was very dark, and I had no yearning to poke about.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't spend my nights yearning for the Chairman.†   (source)
  • Yearning marshmallows with cloudy children behind them.†   (source)
  • Whereas right now he yearns for a big slingshot.†   (source)
  • My yearning to see her, to understand the worship in his voice, broke my frozen pose.†   (source)
  • A year of yearning, when rape seemed the solitary gift of life.†   (source)
  • It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.†   (source)
  • My mind reached toward God—a desperate yearning, begging, clinging to Him.†   (source)
  • His music expresses his own feelings and yearnings.†   (source)
  • She knew I'd been yearning to find ways to leave a legacy for the kids.†   (source)
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