Yearned
[jə:nd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Yearn
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Examples
- Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It must be played--in went the yearned-for seasoning--thus favoured, I played it with relish. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But her heart yearned with sad tenderness for all that she was to leave behind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She yearned towards the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her errant will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Margaret yearned after that old house, and the placid tranquillity of that old well-ordered, monotonous life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She yearned for the strength which such a change would give,--even for a few hours to be in the midst of that bright life, and to feel young again. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Inclination yearned back to its old, easier custom. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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