What was it then I wanted, when in my childhood I sat upon the stone in my gateway, and gazed yearningly in the direction of the long road and thought how it ran on and on, shot over the mountains, still onward and onward .
When I stand beneath the brightest and bluest day, then I gaze yearningly up at the sun, and after that round about the horizon and think: 'Ah!
And the young maiden yearningly spread her arms in the air, calling upon her distant friend with tender, low-whispered words and heartfelt longings.
And while he looked yearningly after it, a mother's hand fell upon his shoulder, and her sweet voice trembled as she pointed upward, and bade him follow.
With which her tone betrayed perhaps a shade of soreness for the single exemption she didn't yearningly welcome.
Yet what was it she had in mind, what did she wish to make of him beyond what she had already made, a patient, punctilious host, mindful that she had originally arrived much as a stranger, arrived not at all deliberately or yearningly invited?
Now in his despair, the baffled Pilgrim of Knowledge turned yearningly to her image, wept weakly at the leagues that separated him from all who cared for him.
Miss Belinda was very much surprised to be awakened early the next morning, by a pair of loving arms clasped yearningly about her neck.
Instead of that he shook his head mournfully, yearningly but irrevocably, and said, "To be your father would have been a dear position to occupy.
Then, with the accompaniment of a snare- drum, there was a merry, informal dance, at which Jason and Mavis looked yearningly on.
As for Trafford, though outwardly stern and cold as ever, his heart went out to the boy moreyearningly after that.
Yearningly she in turn stepped forward and struck a single chord.
But since death had robbed her of her lover, the heart of the Greek princess had turned yearningly towards her native country and her husband Menelaus, and Odysseus now found in her a most unlooked-for ally.
But the heart of Odysseus turned yearningly towards his beloved wife Penelope and his young son.
The glance was fatal, and destroyed all his hopes of happiness; for, as he yearningly stretched out his arms to embrace her, she was caught back, and vanished from his sight for ever.
And Neewa, far up the creek, still followed hopefully and yearningly over the trail of Miki.
He whined softly and yearningly in that pit of gloom under the windfall, and for a moment or two he listened, for he thought that Neewa might answer.
Still Miki did not move, A light had appeared in the window of the cabin, and his eyes were fixed on it yearningly as the low whine gathered in his throat again.
They lookedyearningly out at the beautiful grounds.
He held out his arms yearningly to the beautiful, startled woman standing dumbly before him with a smile of scorn on her perfect lips.
Almost before Jonathan was aware of it he was singing, with his eyes turnedyearningly upon Dru: My man John, what can the matter be, That I should love the lady fair and she should not love me?
Meanwhile he fancied that the "Quia amore langueo" again greeted him yearningly in the sweet melody of her voice.
Yet when she turned her face toward him, and his ardent gaze rested yearningly upon her, she felt that the opportunity had now come to carry out her half-forgotten intention of arousing the jealousy of her royal lover.
Some people prayed yearningly for its success, though they could have no other share in its making.
But he turned and looked yearningly back at the monstrous thing under the mist of scaffolding.
And as they hang timidly and yearningly and persistently between earth and heaven, so the souls of men hang timidly and yearningly and persistently between time and eternity.
I am infinitely, that I am yearningly aware of that.
I tried to dissuade him from this excess, but nothing would serve--he was too yearningly bent upon it, and we parted with his asseveration that I might absolutely count on this tribute both to poor Proust's charms and to my own.
She stopped as if shot, and with hands still outstretched stood motionless, with her eyes fixed yearningly upon him.
Nellie laid her arm on the sleeve of Ruggles, and looking up yearningly in his face she asked: "Can you give me any news of father?
Maggie, looking yearningly at the servant, as if asking for another word of encouragement.
Maggie's eyes were fixed yearningly upon the face of her parent, as she finished his remark in a tremulous whisper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yearningly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
