Yearning

Examples

• But it was not so; I was the same in strength, in earnest craving for sympathy, in my yearning for active exertion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I was conscious that every other sentiment, regret, or passion had by degrees merged into a yearning, clinging affection for them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The next day however, he felt wistful and yearning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The desire and yearning of my soul is for an African _nationality_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His arms were yearning up to her; but she drew away, and they remained facing each other, divided by the distance that her words had created. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The next thing he has a strong yearning to see is the spot where the Saviour was crucified. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Was it really only an idea, or was it the interpretation of a profound yearning? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To be yearning for the difficult, to be weary of that offered; to care for the remote, to dislike the near; it was Wildeve's nature always. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He would forego everything but the yearning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She had a great yearning to be at Lowick, and was simply determined to go, not feeling bound to tell all her reasons. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He lay all that night sleepless, and yearning to go home. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yours, I trust, as the mistress of Lowick, will not leave any yearning unfulfilled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He would keep the unfinished bliss of his own yearning even through the torture she inflicted upon him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• No, father, said Lucie, yearning and weeping as she kissed her hand, no. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Then again she was conscious of another change which also made her tremulous; it was a sudden strange yearning of heart towards Will Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But Mrs. Dunkirk had qualms and yearnings about her daughter, who had long been regarded as lost both to God and her parents. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The yearnings of to-day are the symptoms of needs, they point the course of invention, they are the energies which animate a social program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I had vague, indistinct yearnings to be a sort of emancipator,--to free my native land from this spot and stain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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