All 4 Uses of
yearn
in
Dracula
- 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!†
p. 186.8yearn = strongly desire
- 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.†
p. 330.2 *yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- "You too, my dearest," she said, with infinite yearning of pity in her voice and eyes.†
p. 352.7
- I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyze my faculties and to clog my very soul.†
p. 393.8
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have