Which preposition to use with yearns

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

beyond Occurrences 1%

In the person of S. Dominic kneeling beneath the cross Fra Angelico painted worship as an ecstasy, wherein the soul goes forth with love and pain and yearning beyond any power of words or tears or music to express what it would utter.

under Occurrences 1%

She felt the blossom of life yearning under the leaf; but she bent the green beauty heedfully above it, and made believe it was not there.

at Occurrences 1%

He gazed with yearning at the colts in the pastures, the birds in their nests, the insects on the flowers; but they all fled from him at his approach and hid or flew away.

for Occurrences 1%

Oh, friend, sweet friend, were this dark hour not given To grief, to be its own, thus would I speak Oh, twine your branches here about this breast, Which, blossoming long years in solitude, Yearns for the wondrous fragrance of your bells.

without Occurrences 1%

A really good diplomatic appointment in a large and important city would have enabled Mr. Hamilton to collect some of his scattered sons and daughters and provide them with the background for which his wife had yearned without ceasing (and very audibly) for years.

after Occurrences 1%

his heart awakes, his ears drink in The cheering music; his relenting soul Yearns after all the joys of social life, And softens with the love of human kind.

On Occurrences 1%

"'Tis a weary road to political fame; Its price you must often pay in shame; And the world-known name for which you yearn On a bulletin board or a funeral urn, Is scarcely worth the toil and strife Which poison the peaceful joys of life.

Which preposition to use with  yearns