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Definition
have a strong desire — often for something difficult or impossible to have
- I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyze my faculties and to clog my very soul.Chapter 27 (52% in)
- And yet when he say things that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my father-heart yearn to him as to no other man, not even you, friend John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son, yet even at such a moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, 'Here I am!Chapter 13 (80% in)
- There was over me a yearning for sleep, in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better.Chapter 23 (68% in)
- "You too, my dearest," she said, with infinite yearning of pity in her voice and eyes.Chapter 25 (16% in)
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