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  • The yearning was overpowering.†   (source)
  • But Lockhart's disgusting cheeriness, his hints that he had always thought Hagrid was no good, his confidence that the whole business was now at an end, irritated Harry so much that he yearned to throw Gadding with Ghouls right in Lockhart's stupid face.†   (source)
  • His yearning, in a sense, was too powerful to be quenched by human contact.†   (source)
  • My heart lurched: yearning ran through me like a cramp.†   (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)
  • The yearned-for Stable Era soon began.†   (source)
  • In the quiet, the yearning in his voice rang like a bell.†   (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)
  • We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of—unconditional love, unconditional attention.†   (source)
  • If I were spotted, I could be killed; but my yearning to see my father and brother overpowered reason.†   (source)
  • If even the most clandestine love affair yearns for an audience, then of course I was theirs.†   (source)
  • As someone who gave me The Crown of a Hero to read, which suggests a rather fanciful mind that yearns for adventure?†   (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)
  • The yearning, especially in her, became overwhelming.†   (source)
  • He yearns for cigarettes.†   (source)
  • They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives.†   (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)
  • …of my life—that complex design I had been weaving since birth with all its dark threads, its unexplainable symbols set against a conventional background of domestic white and schoolboy blue, all those tangled strands which required the dexterity of a virtuoso to keep flowing—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)
  • Reading these letters at the end of an exhausting day, Briony felt a dreamy nostalgia, a vague yearning for a long-lost life.†   (source)
  • Yearning and wariness and hopefulness and love …. does Molly really see all this on Sarah's face, or is she projecting?†   (source)
  • It was lust and rage yearning upward.†   (source)
  • She yearned with all her soul to be borne off by her hands.†   (source)
  • He sounded so full of hope and yearning that it was hard to tell the truth.†   (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)
  • Her body simultaneously yearned to close the gap between them and push him away.†   (source)
  • He turned to the twins, yearning but hopeless.†   (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)
  • Another part yearned for it still to be true.†   (source)
  • I can also understand my homesickness and yearning for Moortje.†   (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)
  • After wandering and drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years.†   (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)
  • It was yearning for release.†   (source)
  • Eragon gazed with yearning at the old man, who seemed to be only sleeping.†   (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)
  • He had nothing to miss, nothing to yearn for.†   (source)
  • They wanted to see the face of this little girl whose story they yearned to know.†   (source)
  • I yearn to hear something, anything, another roar, Henri's shotgun, but there is nothing.†   (source)
  • His anguish was plain; I yearned to comfort him, but I was at a loss to know how.†   (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)
  • They play with her yearning to become one of them, taxing her energies until she begins to wane.†   (source)
  • A year of yearning, when rape seemed the solitary gift of life.†   (source)
  • But I would linger in that narrow passage under the eaves, yearning to say something, to heal something.†   (source)
  • For the past two days, I had yearned to cause fear in mortals again.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Sometimes Mrs. Livingston feels like Yetta, with her perpetual yearning.†   (source)
  • It was cosmic in nature, full of yearnings and Teachings.†   (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)
  • 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, unkissed princes trapped inside them.†   (source)
  • But all had yearnings to know what made their parents special.†   (source)
  • "Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning."†   (source)
  • The yearning to touch him was so bad she wanted to let go of the blankets and scream.†   (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)
  • She wished she could share the experience with the two people who had made her yearn to see Earth in the first place.†   (source)
  • My mind reached toward God—a desperate yearning, begging, clinging to Him.†   (source)
  • As you say, eyes closed, far away, a look of yearning.†   (source)
  • Hatsue had been taken from his life by history, because history was whimsical and immune to private yearnings.†   (source)
  • Plato calls this yearning eras—which means love.†   (source)
  • I had a great yearning, lately, to pay my father back for all the years of neglect, and start tending his grave.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't spend my nights yearning for the Chairman.†   (source)
  • I had such a yearning to be out there.†   (source)
  • Paul was restive in his clumsy cast, and angry because he yearned to get back to his clinic in Cange.†   (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)
  • From that day on, part of me yearned to be invisible.†   (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)
  • Dick had laughed, and confessed to a similar yearning: "I keep thinking what fun if my second wife had been there.†   (source)
  • But will she ever internally yearn for something she'll never have—a husband and family of her own?†   (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)
  • The women yearned to be as far away as possible from this place of bad memories.†   (source)
  • It was a day we had yearned forand fought for over so many years.†   (source)
  • Marcus laughs, a smug cackle that makes me yearn to stab him.†   (source)
  • Coach Brown picked up on Luma's yearning.†   (source)
  • Yearning.†   (source)
  • That all hearts yearn toward it, that old and young must give it love.†   (source)
  • In the fifteenth century, explorers yearned for…†   (source)
  • In the Spaniard's heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own.†   (source)
  • In those times when we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have.†   (source)
  • My own yearnings for footsie were severely tempered by my fear of the guards.†   (source)
  • They are a mob of farmers' sons and boys who yearn to be factory workers.†   (source)
  • He had no affection for the border, and a yearning for the plains, dangerous as they were.†   (source)
  • She yearned to leave the brothel behind, but she could not overcome her addiction.†   (source)
  • She watched us both with yearning eyes.†   (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)
  • I yearned to taste each layer.†   (source)
  • For him, Emma Lazarus's poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty summarized one of the things that made America great: GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,
    YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE,
    THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE.
    SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME,
    I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!
    So Goins wasn't about to turn anyone away.†   (source)
  • I feel the ancient yearning for fire embedded deep in my genes.†   (source)
  • Now I yearned to go and I couldn't.†   (source)
  • All those people craving for your words, yearning to see a glimpse into your soul …. it's exhilarating.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • How my heart yearns for Minas Anor and the walls of my own city!†   (source)
  • But I was content to deceive, though I did it with the greatest yearning I had felt in years.†   (source)
  • I could hardly bear it, the sight of her yearning towards him, seeing her dying now, under this vampire's power.†   (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)
  • How he yearned for both girls!†   (source)
  • The galloping spirit that yearned for adventure was just as strong in her as it was in me.†   (source)
  • Unravel the tie, twist and wind Cast this Bind So I may find That which I yearn for …†   (source)
  • His yearning is white hot.†   (source)
  • And now that Vlad had had a taste, he knew he would always yearn for another.†   (source)
  • My three brothers would be coming home, and I yearned for them.†   (source)
  • Oh, how she yearned for it!†   (source)
  • Time was a seamless yearning for his mother.†   (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)
  • An utterly stupid proposition, and these hands so lovingly trained to master a scalpel yearn to caress a trigger.†   (source)
  • Because however much of a Daphne you yearn to be, there is always your Ermintrude looking over your shoulder.†   (source)
  • He will always yearn to come back to the mother's breast, for that's where he was born.†   (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)
  • In him was a crazy yearning to embrace incredibilities, walk with wonder.†   (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)
  • Just as we must understand your yearning for a united Ireland, so too must you understand what the best of unionism is about.†   (source)
  • All over the world, children love their parents and yearn for love in return.†   (source)
  • Many Americans still harbor a twilight yearning for the sound of English speech.†   (source)
  • I do think that for a moment Miss Love yearned towards him.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was one thing to yearn for it and another to hold it.†   (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)
  • Yet he yearned for the light to come closer—anything to drive away the dark.†   (source)
  • When her heart yearned to take less, and make do.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • There was a yearning tenderness in her voice.†   (source)
  • His body, under touch from all stimulation tonight, leans toward it, yearning.†   (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)
  • Clothes never meant a damn to her, but Eve caught herself yearning.†   (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)
  • His dreamy blue eyes looking down at me with concern just made me yearn for him even more.†   (source)
  • Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.†   (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)
  • I could make nothing definite of Angeline's high-pitched and yearning whine-cum-howl.†   (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)
  • Ah, Napoleon, I have yearned for such a man as you through all my years of planning for democracy.†   (source)
  • You yearn for normality—an average house in an average town, a garden, perhaps a wife, the chance to grow old.†   (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)
  • She wrote me a yearning love letter my first semester at Alfred University and invited me down to her college.†   (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)
  • Her mother wiped it off with her fingertip and unconsciously (from what yearning?†   (source)
  • Jan would never have believed that anything so simple or so commonplace could have evoked such yearning in his heart.†   (source)
  • I yearn to see him.†   (source)
  • I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every state I visited.†   (source)
  • Aunt Pat was also beginning to yearn for a home of her own.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She yearned for her heart to twist.†   (source)
  • …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…†   (source)
  • For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well-meaning clumsy young normal.†   (source)
  • 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
  • The sky still yearns to embrace the earth.†   (source)
  • Your heart yearns to believe …. but your intellect refuses to permit it.†   (source)
  • In secret, in the night, he yearned for Killer.†   (source)
  • Let your yearning to enter it flood from your mind to every particle of your body!†   (source)
  • Half of Harry yearned to hear more, half of him was afraid of what might come next.†   (source)
  • Hadn't we both yearned for escape, reinvention, new identities?†   (source)
  • Also in this house-fit there was no anger, no suffocation, no yearning to be elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Yearning to connect with someone, she decided to move back in with her parents.†   (source)
  • I yearn for Trisolaran civilization to bring real beauty to this world.†   (source)
  • But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him.†   (source)
  • Whereas right now he yearns for a big slingshot.†   (source)
  • I saw how you suffered and yearned for his affections, and my heart bled for you.†   (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 ached for him even more without Manolito in my arms to stanch the yearning.†   (source)
  • It's a conservative wish-fulfillment, a yearning for naivete.†   (source)
  • —I was done yearning for them, needing them to yearn for me.†   (source)
  • She knew I'd been yearning to find ways to leave a legacy for the kids.†   (source)
  • They speak of the schools with yearning and bravado; they want desperately to be selected.†   (source)
  • The fame she had described was what all mortals yearn for.†   (source)
  • His lips were tightly compressed and his eyes yearned beneath the fringe of hair.†   (source)
  • He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both.†   (source)
  • His music expresses his own feelings and yearnings.†   (source)
  • I don't know how much longer I can continue to keep this yearning under control.†   (source)
  • He watched cloudy children at car windows with yearning marshmallow noses.†   (source)
  • Every night I yearn for sleep, I strive for it; yet it flutters on ahead of me like a sooty curtain.†   (source)
  • And when I yearned for variety, more meerkats and fish than I could ever desire?†   (source)
  • Because his scar had been burning for hours, yearning to show him Voldemort's thoughts?†   (source)
  • Have I become unstable, that I can forget Cassie one moment, and yearn for her the next?†   (source)
  • Her eyes were full of a terrible yearning, as if she longed desperately to tell Clary something.†   (source)
  • The kind of civilization you yearn for once existed on Trisolaris, too.†   (source)
  • —I was done yearning for them, needing them to yearn for me.†   (source)
  • Instead I reached up to the highest shelf for the great clay honey jar he was always yearning for.†   (source)
  • She smiled, dimpling prettily, but the dark, humid eyes were full of yearning.†   (source)
  • Nothing like what they sang at Sweet Home, where yearning fashioned every note.†   (source)
  • Louie had known that sound since his boyhood, when he'd lain awake beside Pete, yearning to escape.†   (source)
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