Both Uses
yearn
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Johnny Got His Gun
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- The piano kept time with the bell and the bell with the piano and in back of it there was thick silence and a yearning to listen and lonesomeness.†
Chpt 1 *yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- They died yearning for the face of a friend.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(yearn) have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)