1375 examples of yearn in sentences

I whispered approvingly, "Tres bien, Monsieur, tres bien!" BISMARCK: "Does the German heart yearn for the Rhine?

Does it yearn for Strasbourg?

Does it yearn for Metz?

and if not, what does it yearn for?" He was looking straight at me when he said this,

We love that unseen city, and we yearn Ever within our earthly homes to see Its golden towers,

But still I yearn to look upon their faces again, and to hear once more their words of love.

I don't expect to keep her long, and don't ought to regret when I lose her, for Saul is the best of sons; but daughters is more to mothers somehow, and I always yearn over girls that is left without a broodin' wing to keep 'em safe and warm in this world of tribulation.

I yearn to have thy will y-wrought, For thou me hast

He appeared not to have an idea that prudence required that some matronly lady should become the chaperon of his isolated child, much less that her heart could yearn for feminine society.

Paris demands the Republic, and must yearn for it eagerly indeed, since neither your excesses nor your follies have succeeded in changing its mind.

The contemplation of Paul in his christening robe made his nurse yearn for a sight of her own first-born, although this was a pleasure strictly forbidden by Mr. Dombey's orders.

" Correspondence was carried on during this year regarding the library at S. Lorenzo; and though I do not mean to treat at length about that building in this chapter, I cannot omit an autograph postscript added by Clement to one of his secretary's missives: "Thou knowest that Popes have no long lives; and we cannot yearn more than we do to behold the chapel with the tombs of our kinsmen, or at any rate to hear that it is finished.

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!

Shelley could yearn for the infinite, Browning treat it as the last and greatest adventure, Arnold meet it clear eyed and resigned.

You could understand why people who had wandered forty years in a stark and howling wilderness should yearn for those coloured, fertile acres between the Jordan and the sea: why they should be willing to fight for them, die for them, do anything rather than turn back.

In such a state, the very proudest autocrat would yearn for the sympathy of the veriest wretch.

I think the proper attitude to take when restless and lonesome and homesick for want of God's sensible presence, is just what we take when we are missing earthly friends for whom we yearn, and whose letters, though better than nothing, do not half feed our hungry hearts, or fill our longing arms.

My inmost soul doth long for His forgiveness, I yearn for sign of His compassion, Yet cannot bear His mercy in the Grail....

Howe'er my sinking heart may yearn for food, Nought will I taste till you have promised first HEDWIG.

So long as I know what this book has been and done, so long as man's history will not allow me to risk the interests of society with the infidelity which has so often demoralized it, so long will I yearn to get the Bible and its message to all men.

Towards the middle of September the exodus from the high 'Margs' takes placemany returning sadly to Pindi and Sealkoteothers merely to Srinagar, while those who yearn after Bara Singh and Bear, decamp quietly for their selected nullahs, to be in readiness for the opening of the autumn season.

Where can the antidote be had To banish gloomy care? Say, why your spirits sink and droop; Will Jesus not return? Arise, He calleth you, look up; O'er you His bowels yearn.

Every Italian heart must yearn for a government that has its existence and its motives on this side of the Alps." "Signore, we are a republic to-day, and ever have been, you know.

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

You will see the horrible emptiness of it all, and you will yearn for better things.

1375 examples of  yearn  in sentences