All 8 Uses of
yearn
in
Wuthering Heights
- It vanished in a twinkling; but immediately I felt an irresistible yearning to be at the Heights.†
p. 78.9yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- I wasted no condolences on Miss, nor any expostulations on my mistress; nor did I pay much attention to the sighs of my master, who yearned to hear his lady's name, since he might not hear her voice.†
p. 87.3yearned = strongly desired
- The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!†
p. 111.2yearn = strongly desire
- I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.†
p. 116.9yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- But I've been as happy musing by myself among those stones, under that old church: lying, through the long June evenings, on the green mound of her mother's grave, and wishing — yearning for the time when I might lie beneath it.†
p. 186.9
- I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning — from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse!†
p. 210.6 *
- I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it.†
p. 236.3
- They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached — and soon — because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfilment.†
p. 236.3yearned = strongly desired
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have