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Definition
have a strong desire — often for something difficult or impossible to have
- I could hardly bear it, the sight of her yearning towards him, seeing her dying now, under this vampire's power.Part 3 (18% in)
- 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 3 (23% in)
- 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 3 (73% in)
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