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Definition
have a strong desire — often for something difficult or impossible to have
- It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and he was aware of wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what.Chapter 7 — The Sounding of the Call (19% in)
- His strength left him, and the last his mates saw of him he lay gasping in the snow and yearning toward them.Chapter 4 — Who Has Won to Mastership (97% in)
There are no more uses of "yearn" in The Call of the Wild.
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