1 Mrs. Crupp was to find linen, and to cook; every other necessary was already provided; and Mrs. Crupp expressly intimated that she should always yearn towards me as a son.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI... 2 That would be cruel to Ashley, but it would make him yearn for her all the more.
3 Also, never do I yearn to strive for what is right as I yearn to acquire property.
4 From cow after cow came the same yearning bellow.
5 The whole world was filled with dumb yearning.
6 From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.
7 He roused in the woman a wild sort of compassion and yearning, and a wild, craving physical desire.
8 A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her.
9 He had fulfilled his life-long secret yearning to get out of himself.
10 It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration.
11 "With what intense desire she wants her home," was continually on her tongue, as the truest description of a yearning which she could not suppose any schoolboy's bosom to feel more keenly.
12 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.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 13 Too often she had surprised him when his eyes were neither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
14 I'm not trying to organize Browning Clubs, and sit in clean white kids yearning up at lecturers with ribbony eyeglasses.
15 The third man is very fat, with a round, red, sentimental nose, and he plays with his eyes turned up to the sky and a look of infinite yearning.