And what makes her care the less that I should stray in that direction is that she yearns for me to bear her a child, a grandchild, as an heir to her property.
Man yearns to be loved, or, what is the same thing, to be pitied.
But the love of the Madonna is in itself fraught with the tragic impossibility of requital; its foundation is the recognition, or divination, of the fact that mortal women are too insignificant for a passion which yearns for infinitude.
These suggestions purpose to explain the inception of an ecstatic love; but the true metaphysical erotic is born and needs no outside stimulus; his heart yearns for the inaccessible from the very beginning.
His father-heart yearnsfor a season of communion with us.
He has a deep and abiding affection for every soul, and even when we stray away from him into the depth of sin, his heart yearns over us as a mother over her erring boy, only his love is stronger than a mother’s.
It appeals to the universal emotion of fatherhood, which yearns over a wandering child just because he has wandered.
My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back; yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence.
Thy soul yearns to the south--forsooth, will I all the more cherish thee.
My shadow yearns to the south," she repeated pathetically.
She yearns to see you, to bless you for all your noble devotion, your generous, greathearted love; but I forbid such interview now.
He has ignorance cleaving to him as an evil, but he knows his own ignorance, and yearns for wisdom as a cure for it.
He tempts GOD who yearns not to win that for which he prays: or despairs to speed well therein; and who makes sin and evil life: such a man thinks not he loves.
Whoso yearnsafter other comfort to glad himself with, witnesses against himself that he withstands GOD'S grace: unless it be honest comfort betimes that he may thereby glad his nature with, and better serve GOD.
For the bones of my slain are stirred, And the seed of my earth in her womb Moves as the heart of a bud Beating with odorous blood To the tune of the loud first bird Burns and yearns into bloom.
Fradke and Beilke only know when they are hungry (and they are always hungry), the heart yearns within them, and they want to eat.
There the tears fall quietly, while the soul yearns after something that has no name and no existence in time or space.
If even now my heart yearns to you, Morton, when I think of that home and those days, believe that it had some softness and some mercy for you then.
If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home.
Why in the name of hoss-stealin' he ever yearns for that young-one is allers too many for me.
The man's heart yearns for her, as she stands there in her grace and beauty, and the passionate love he has tried so hard to subdue rises and masters him.
He is very brave and true, a safe shelter in trouble--she has proved that--and her heart yearns for the help he could give her.
And still my spirit sometimes yearns for you, my blessed Klothilde!
Pleasant is this flesh, Our soul, in its rose-mesh Pulled ever to the earth, still yearnsfor rest.
Of a tenderness which yearns in memory over the defenceless member of his flock, lately the victim of brutality and disappointed avarice.
Our sorrow yearns for comprehension, and is constantly doubled in quantity and intensity by finding that it cannot explain itself or become intelligible to others.
The wise man looks at her with compassionate loathing, God with pity which yearns to save; but this foolish youth is moved by her as only a fool could be moved.
Tell the sinful wretch what pity yearns at Immanuel's breast; what blood He has spilt, what agonies He has endured, what wonders He has wrought for the salvation of His enemies.
Nature still yearns over them, but I am enabled to leave them, as a dying legacy, to the Lord of life.
Under sunny skies, amid the balmy gales and luscious fruits of the tropics, the wanderer yearns to cross the familiar threshold, and our bleak North in her wintry robe is dearer than Italy or the Indies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yearns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
