All 22 Uses

yearn
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Adam Bede
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At last it seemed as if, in her yearning desire to reclaim the lost sheep, she could not be satisfied by addressing her hearers as a body.†
Chpt 2

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
If it wasn't for that clear showing of the Lord's will, I should be loath to go, for my heart yearns over my aunt and her little ones, and that poor wandering lamb Hetty Sorrel.†
Chpt 3

yearns = strongly desires
Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.†
Chpt 4

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Very quiet, sir, but I saw no signs of any great work upon them, except in a young girl named Bessy Cranage, towards whom my heart yearned greatly, when my eyes first fell on her blooming youth, given up to folly and vanity.†
Chpt 8

yearned = strongly desired
Simply to close her eyes and to feel herself enclosed by the Divine Presence; then gradually her fears, her yearning anxieties for others, melted away like ice-crystals in a warm ocean.†
Chpt 15

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
And to Adam the church service was the best channel he could have found for his mingled regret, yearning, and resignation; its interchange of beseeching cries for help with outbursts of faith and praise, its recurrent responses and the familiar rhythm of its collects, seemed to speak for him as no other form of worship could have done; as, to those early Christians who had worshipped from their childhood upwards in catacombs, the torch-light and shadows must have seemed nearer the Divine presence than the heathenish daylight of the streets.†
Chpt 18
She had a sickening sense that no lot could ever be pleasant to her again if her Thursday night's vision was not to be fulfilled; and in this moment of chill, bare, wintry disappointment and doubt, she looked towards the possibility of being with Arthur again, of meeting his loving glance, and hearing his soft words with that eager yearning which one may call the "growing pain" of passion.†
Chpt 18
We look at the one little woman's face we love as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.†
Chpt 19

yearnings = strong desires
The sign is so slight, it is scarcely perceptible to the ear or eye—he could describe it to no one—it is a mere feather-touch, yet it seems to have changed his whole being, to have merged an uneasy yearning into a delicious unconsciousness of everything but the present moment.†
Chpt 20

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Adam's heart yearned over her as he looked at her.†
Chpt 30

yearned = strongly desired
The honour and love you bear him is nothing but meet, for God has given him great gifts, and he uses them as the patriarch Joseph did, who, when he was exalted to a place of power and trust, yet yearned with tenderness towards his parent and his younger brother.†
Chpt 30
For I feel it, I feel it—infinite love is suffering too—yea, in the fulness of knowledge it suffers, it yearns, it mourns; and that is a blind self-seeking which wants to be freed from the sorrow wherewith the whole creation groaneth and travaileth.†
Chpt 30

yearns = strongly desires
Oh, how she yearned to be again with somebody who would care for her!†
Chpt 36

yearned = strongly desired
She thought of all she had left behind with yearning regret for her own sake.†
Chpt 36

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
How she yearned to be back in her safe home again, cherished and cared for as she had always been!†
Chpt 37

yearned = strongly desired
The yearning memories, the bitter regret, the agonized sympathy, the struggling appeals to the Invisible Right—all the intense emotions which had filled the days and nights of the past week, and were compressing themselves again like an eager crowd into the hours of this single morning, made Adam look back on all the previous years as if they had been a dim sleepy existence, and he had only now awaked to full consciousness.†
Chpt 42

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man; and to Adam, this pale, hard-looking culprit was the Hetty who had smiled at him in the garden under the apple-tree boughs—she was that Hetty's corpse, which he had trembled to look at the first time, and then was unwilling to turn away his eyes from.†
Chpt 43
Dinah stood still for a minute, hesitating to speak because Hetty might be asleep, and looking at the motionless heap with a yearning heart.†
Chpt 45
The two pale faces were looking at each other: one with a wild hard despair in it, the other full of sad yearning love.†
Chpt 45 *
We could not bless each other, Adam, if there were doubts in my soul, and if I yearned, when it was too late, after that better part which had once been given me and I had put away from me.†
Chpt 52

yearned = strongly desired
That life I have led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I long for a moment to follow the voice which calls me to another land that I know not, I cannot but fear that my soul might hereafter yearn for that early blessedness which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters there is not perfect love.†
Chpt 52

yearn = strongly desire
What a look of yearning love it was that the mild grey eyes turned on the strong dark-eyed man!†
Chpt 54

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire

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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)

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