32 collocations for yearned

But the heart of Abdel-Hassan yearned, as yearns the heart of man, Still to die among his kindred, ending life where it began.

Now hereupon Beltane turned to look with yearning eyes towards the gloom of the forest beyond which lay the soft and peaceful valleys of fair Mortain, and she that called herself Fidelis, who had indeed been so faithful in all things, so patient and enduring; and, as his eyes yearned, so yearned the great passionate soul of him, insomuch that he must needs fall a-trembling, whereat Roger the watchful drew a soft pace nearer.

Sometimes though he was his father to her and she called him "Ned" in such tones of yearning tenderness that it nearly broke down his self control.

And from the depths of blackness, he cried to her in agony of remorse, and from the light she looked down on him with eyes brimful of yearning love and tenderness, for that a gulf divided them.

He yearned for mother-love and home affection, with an intensity as passionate, a desire as deep, as ever stirred within the heart of man.

He can strip you of all protection and thus expose you to all outrages, but if you are exposed to the weather, half clad and half sheltered, how yearn his tender bowels!

I fain my mother would console, sad for her daughter grieving would my brothers twain behold, who for their sister sorrow!" "O do not yearn, thou wretched child, for those thou lovest, ever!

Then, if the great, illimitable heart of God thus yearns for the love of his creatures, the greater the heart of a human being, the more must he yearn for a fulness of love, a completion of the cycle of bonds and joys for which he was made.

And so, if I yearn day and night without intermission to be in Rome, it is only in order to return again to life, which I cannot enjoy without the soul."

The semi-darkness held beseeching faces that fought to press themselves upon my vision, yearning yet hopeless eyes, lips scorched and dry, mouths that opened to implore but found no craved delivery in actual words, and a fury of misery and hate that made the life in me stop dead, frozen by the horror of vain pity.

How often, Duchemin wondered, had she in hours of solitude and restlessness felt her spirit yearning toward Paris, the nearest gateway to her world, and had cried out: How long, O Lord!

There are profound thoughts of God, noble ethical ideals, deep perceptions of sin, yearning desires for human good, gleams of life beyond the grave.

His mournful eyes yearned hither and thither, following some entity that moved in the room, dimmer than darkness, more ethereal than shadow.

We yearn towards our natural home, the kingdom in which our spirits were begotten.

He yearned all his life for some form beautiful enough to satisfy the aspirations of his soul.

It had grown a little thick in the last year, but he brought out of its very thickness a brooding, yearning passion and an intolerable pathos.

Cut off during his whole active life from any but the most partial sympathy with his kind, he yearns for the life of the shore, its social pleasures and its friendly greetings.

that her charming friend loves me: she must therefore yearn after this reconciliationprospects so fairif she showed me any compassion; seemed inclinable to spare me, and to make the most favourable construction: I cannot but say, that it would be impossible not to show her some.

I yearned with tremendous passion for the power to tell the simplicity, the ruggedness, the pathos and the glory of his story.

I canna work for Mrs. Osborn as I used, and with oad Jim yearning nobbut fifteen shilling" She paused for breath and wiped her hot face, and Osborn signed to the keeper.

I yearn no more To mingle with the maddened throng; Enough for me this wave-kissed shore, The vesper-bell, the fountain's song, The sunlit sail, the Alpine glow, And storied towers of long ago.

To a few of us, they are ladders, by which we climb to God; hills, that lift us nearer heaventhat heaven, which, however certainlywith whatever mathematical precisionit has been demonstrated to us that it exists not here, nor there, nor yet anywhere, we still dimly, with yearning tears and high longings, grasp at.

Talk of the wrappings of your princesses, of the shallow-ermine-girded trappings of your queensthey were but yearning things, but imitations, as compared with this great cloak of the bounteous Bigbeam.

Perchance you turn from passionate vows, words wild with love's sweet madness, With soft eyes looking far sway, in yearning trust and sadness; A look that tells his alien soul how widely you are parted, Though he knows not whom your rapt eyes seek, my sweet, my loving-hearted.

TWO MOTHERS One night two lonely women met Beside a storm-swept bay; With tears their mournful eyes were wet, Their pale lips salt with spray; They passed; then turned, as though each yearned Some friendly word to say.

32 collocations for  yearned