Which preposition to use with yearning

for Occurrences 262%

The Victor is he who, in his own life, unites these two things: a great longing after the god-like, which makes him yearn for virtue,and the divine power within him, through which and by which he is triumphant over time and death and sin.

for Occurrences 107%

What else is the meaning of our love for excellence, our insatiable yearning for perfection?

of Occurrences 87%

3. The rejection of mourning as one-sided, ignorant, and a reversal of the true estimate of the facts; and a recognition of the eternal destiny of Keats in the world of mind, coupled with the yearning of Shelley to have done with the vain shows of things in this cycle of mortality, and to be at one with Keats in the mansions of the everlasting.

over Occurrences 34%

She yearned over him as only those can understand who know what it is to carry the burden of souls upon their hearts by night and day but no thought of love ever crossed her mind.

towards Occurrences 32%

it is but a hopeless experiment to marry one, while the heart is still yearning towards another.

with Occurrences 27%

And, in that day thou shalt behold all things with new eyes: and in that day shalt thou sigh, and long, and yearn with all thy soul for these woeful hours wherein Self looms for thee so large thou art blind to aught else.

after Occurrences 26%

But the Lord, who cannot rest while one is miserable, still goes secretly to them, for His heart yearns after them.

after Occurrences 20%

In a word, Joel, in his yearnings after wealth, had only faintly shadowed forth the modern favourite doctrine of "rotation in office.

in Occurrences 15%

Fair SALLY, overflowing with the milk of human kindness, and yearning in her soul to bestow her attentions and corporosity upon JACK'S attenuosity, urged matters onward, and the wedding day was fixed, the ring bought, and delicate Mr. SPRAT was led to the altar like a sheep to the slaughter.

toward Occurrences 14%

" She stood behind him now over the couch, her hand yearning toward but not touching him.

to Occurrences 12%

Involuntarily memory harked back to the night of his first dinner in the château, when the shadows had danced so weirdly, and the strange notion had come to him that they were like famished spectres, greedy of the lights, yearning to spring and snatch and feed upon them, as wolves might snatch at chops.

towards Occurrences 11%

I have a kindly yearning towards these dim speckspoor blotsinnocent blacknesses I reverence these young Africans of our own growththese almost clergy imps, who sport their cloth without assumption; and from their little pulpits (the tops of chimneys), in the nipping air of a December morning, preach a lesson of patience to mankind.

in Occurrences 11%

If he thought so, that there was the faintest likelihood of harm to her, he would say no, no matter what the yearning in his heart.

at Occurrences 4%

I went and sat among 'em all at my old thirty-three-years' desk yester-morning; and, deuce take me, if I had not yearnings at leaving all my old pen-and-ink fellows, merry, sociable lads,at leaving them in the lurch, fag, fag, fag!

as Occurrences 3%

When he fell under the witchery of Gladkovska, however, he was genuinely pierced to the heart, and his letters are as full of vague morose yearning as his Préludes.

over Occurrences 3%

Their yearnings over human distress are so intense, that they beg the privilege of performing all operations, and furnishing all the medical attention needed, gratis, feeling that the relief of misery is its own reward!!!

as Occurrences 2%

His pulses quickened; a great yearning as of infinite hunger possessed him.

on Occurrences 2%

Their father's glowing accounts of the magnificent scenery, its vast resources and limitless possibilities, caused a yearning on their part probably deeper than his own.

within Occurrences 2%

A mighty hunger yearned within her heart, Till all her veins ran fever, and her cheek, Her long thin hands, and ivory-channell'd feet, Were wasted with the wasting of her soul.

into Occurrences 2%

he repeats a little dreamily, looking with a strong and bitter yearning into my eyes; then, seeing that I am going to asseverate, "for God's sake, child," he says, hastily, "do not tell me that you love me, for I know it is not true!

to Occurrences 2%

If leans the human heart to any place, Mine has a yearning to the grace Of Farrukh.

Of Occurrences 2%

We know not; for the faint, exhausted rays Which hither on Light's winged coursers come From fires which ages since first lit their blaze, One instant gleam, then perish, spent and dumb; How sad the thought that, howsoe'er we yearn Of life on yonder glittering orbs to learn, We read no message, and could none return!

through Occurrences 2%

One loved to dwell upon it as upon those intense stretches of evening sky when the day yearns through half-shut eyelids in the west.

like Occurrences 2%

The music, yearning like a god in pain.

from Occurrences 1%

This step, taken in a moment of restless pique, was ever after regretted by Cellini, who looked back with yearning from Florence to the generosity of Francis.

Which preposition to use with  yearning