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Deep down, I think most women have at some point yearned for a mane of long, blonde hair.
Residents were rehoused further downstream on the other side of the dam, but many yearned for the lost streets and houses.
At the same time as he developed this contrarian personality to society he still secretly yearned for an audience.
Having received the first fruits of their salvation, they yearned for its fulfillment.
Decision-makers and public opinion in the interwar period yearned for stability and an end to war-induced disruption.
But last fall I had to slice some 6-inch I-beams at a salvage yard and yearned for more power.
We yearned for private space to read, and we squirmed at the indelicacy of having to pee in public down tubes on the deck.
My stomach muscles yearned for food, scolding me with sharp pangs that jolted my brain.
Having loved and lost, he yearned for the sort of redamancy only the classical love of years gone past may have once known.
Although this was a horrid sight and sound the constant attention the kids yearned for made me pay no heed to them.
There is the man who yearned for eternal life but was terribly attached to his own possessions, and the poor widow who put her last penny in the treasury.
This is the attraction of democracy, and this is the reason why democracy became a universal value and why democratic rights are popularly supported and yearned for!
He had abundant time to strategize with Nigerian partners, he tended to ignore warnings, and he yearned for his family's approval.
Faced with such hard times, people yearned for some empathy and warmth from their taskmaster but Mr Kubilius remained aloof.
But constantly pulling heavy loads didn't bring him the recognition he yearned for.
It yielded to the will of those millions who yearned for liberty and it yielded to the determination of a united West.
Never satisfied, guitarists yearned for even more sonic possibilities and the effect pedal was born.
Dear friends, we yearned for to construct and to weave solidarity and union bows.
Might we not become even more powerfully the 'Holy Preaching that Dominic so yearned for in the early communities?
The two plays he wove around this loner who yearned for love and happiness are masterpieces of profound theatricality.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At Perugia, last spring, through weeks of tramontana, how one yearned for the sight of yellow English primroses!
Nat was the family wilding, the migratory bird that yearned for other climes.
During my married life I often yearned for a son, to train in the yogic path.
No other woman since the world began had been so fit for love, had yearned for it so hungrily.
Perhaps he yearned for companionship and welcomed the sight of living things.
The daughter fed the horse day by day, but she was lonely and yearned for her father.
Therefore he feared not, but with that old Adamic strain in his nature, really yearned for the battle.
I yearned for the splendour that was gone, yet still seemed so hauntingly almost within reach.
Apart from nervousness, she was sociably inclined, and yearned for company.
And yet more bitterly sorrowed his wife, Kleopatra, and yearned for the love which had been torn away from her.
How she had yearned for the comfort of it when her children were born.
So this was the free atmosphere, the grander Judaism he had yearned for.
At times he yearned for a fine-tooth comb and a safety razor.
He yearned for it in the off-season interim as a drunkard for his bottle.
He had yearned for it, as a child might yearn for a plaything.
Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea.
I reckon I'd as soon bleed a polecat as a Ryan, if I yearned for blood.
The baser selves of man were instincts that yearned for disorder.
It was as if what I had yearned for had come at last only to astonish me.
The pressman who was passing yearned for the sunlight in his camera.
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