I have sold my birthright, I have yearned for the flesh-pots, I have fed among--swine.
Yet she felt most bitterly disappointed; her heart had yearned for one kind word, for one token of affection from her, but it was not to be.
How the gentle heart yearned over her, the proud young beauty, in the flush of her triumph, never knew.
My arms cradled you, my lips kissed you, my heartyearned over you.
A child of tender years needs its mother," said a lady whose heart yearned for her little one in England.
He yearned for her to settle down and take kindly to Station ways and doings, but fate eternally intervened.
Just then I happened to see my poor dog who was gazing at me; and this creature so moved me with his still briefer, still duller life, that I was softened even to tears and yearned for something with which I might increase and allay them.
Antoinette's motherly heart yearned over her absent daughter in this sudden bereavement.
Her heart yearned over the child from whom she had parted with so much reluctance.
In this hour it was the biggest physical thing that had ever loomed up in his life, and he yearned for the dawn with the eagerness of a beast that waits for the kill which comes with the break of day.
Burns," he said, and he yearnedover the men with an unspeakable longing for them both, "if you and your friend here will go home with me tonight I will find you both places of honorable employment.
The poor woman yearned to embrace her son, whose hypocritical words awoke the dormant love in her bosom.
Renee was of the same mind as myself, she yearned to come to court and play a part in the world of society; Marseilles was too small for her.
His heart, that strained and yearned and strove As toward the sundawn strives the lark, Is cold as all the old joy thereof.
His little light of life was all too rare And soft a flame: Heaven yearnedfor him till angels hailed him there Angel by name.
She yearned to guide him right, yet her lips were sealed.
Some instinct in Jean called for a lonely, wild land, into the fastnesses of which he could roam at will and be the other strange self that he had always yearned to be but had never been.
He seemed to carry the burden of a secret that he yearned to divulge.
Had that, then, been life such as her thoughts had depicted to her, had that been the mystic happiness such as she had yearned for?
It had been easy for him to fling defiance to the Church when upheld by his sense of righteousness, but now, no longer sinless, he yearned to kneel before the altar and be shrived.
However, in pity for Sir Samuel he said no more; and before we were three minutes older, if her ladyship had yearned to have me back, it would have been too late.
Reformers and pacifists yearned for it as a means of establishing a well-knit society of progressive and pacific peoples and setting a term to sanguinary wars.
They beheld only what they yearned for, and when at last they dropped from the dizzy height of their castles in cloudland their whole world, era, and ideal was shattered.
And Mr. Wilson felt constrained to make their position his own, otherwise he could not have obtained the Covenant he yearned for.
This woman was in distress; he yearnedto lighten her burden; he could do that with half a dozen words; his guilt prohibited.
Thenceforward, however much I yearned to press you to my heart, I have not dared to do so.
He marvelled at the outside of the building, its steeple marking it a house apart from every other in the village, and he long had yearned to see it from within.
She had always feared that he did not love her as she yearned to be loved, and therefore she was ever ready with cajolery, flattery, and other means familiar to women, to win from him a fuller responsiveness.
Now her whole soul yearned out with a wistfulness born of infinite regret.
Igraine's misery burnt in her and cried out for sympathy; Garlotte, half wise by instinct, yearned to share a trouble which she did not wholly comprehend, to advise where she was partly ignorant.
Here and there, fretted by the willows, long moonbeams glinted on her round whiteness, as the maddened foam bubbled, and the water sighed and yearned amid the sedges.
His heart seemed great within him and ready to break, for the blood that bubbled and yearned in it in glorious anguish.
She arose and stepped back, literally gasping for air in her newfound terror, for she instinctively realized what was coming and desperately yearned that she might not have accused Si'Wren in the first place.
Si'Wren desperatelyyearned to see Habrunt, and missed him beyond all reason, but there was no one to turn to now.
He hated to see eyes grow grave and mouths serious upon his entry; he yearned to turn his back against Chagford and resume the process of living in a new environment.
He yearned for power to aid; without conscious direction of his course he proceeded and strode along for hours.
A little hand was stretching out of the loneliness sheyearned for; a little voice was crying out of the solitude she craved.
Meantime Blanchard passed through a hurricane of rage against his enemy much akin to that formerly recorded of John Grimbal himself, when the brute won to the top of him and he yearned for physical conflict.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yearned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
