All 7 Uses of
yearn
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- His midriff yearned then upward, sank within him, yearned more longly, longingly.†
Chpt 8yearned = strongly desired
- His midriff yearned then upward, sank within him, yearned more longly, longingly.†
Chpt 8
- Mayhap it was this, the love that might have been, that lent to her softlyfeatured face at whiles a look, tense with suppressed meaning, that imparted a strange yearning tendency to the beautiful eyes, a charm few could resist.†
Chpt 13 *yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- Gerty MacDowell yearns in vain.†
Chpt 13yearns = strongly desires
- For such a one she yearns this balmy summer eve.†
Chpt 13
- She was a womanly woman not like other flighty girls unfeminine he had known, those cyclists showing off what they hadn't got and she just yearned to know all, to forgive all if she could make him fall in love with her, make him forget the memory of the past.†
Chpt 13yearned = strongly desired
- The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a countrystile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature and the injunction upon her in the event of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to place her hand against that part of her person which long usage has consecrated as the seat of castigation.†
Chpt 14yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have