All 3 Uses of
yearn
in
Interview with the Vampire
- I could hardly bear it, the sight of her yearning towards him, seeing her dying now, under this vampire's power.†
Part 3 *yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- I moved to get away from him, and yet I was drawn to him and I didn't move at all, his arm exerting its firm pressure, his candle blazing now against my eye, so that I felt the warmth of it; all my cold flesh yearned for that warmth, but suddenly I waved to snuff it but couldn't find it, and all I saw was his radiant face, as I had never seen Lestat's face, white and poreless and sinewy and male.†
Part 3yearned = strongly desired
- You see, it's as if you've cracked a door for me, and light is streaming from that door and I'm yearning to get to it, to push it back, to enter the region you say exists beyond it!†
Part 3yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have