yearn

• Matter is felt to yearn, and evolution is held to be more divinely inspired than policy or reason could ever be Extremes meet, and the tendency to practical materialism was never wholly absent from the idealism of the moderns. —  Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion
• She seemed to yearn, as she sang, for the mystery and comfort. —  Sons and Lovers
• The laughter of glad music did not yet In its echo yearn, as hinting ought beyond, Nor pathos tremble at the edge of bliss Like a moon halo in a watery sky, Nor the sweet pain alike of love and fear In a world not comprehended touch the heart-- The poetry of life was not yet born. —  Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
• But for the supremacy and for the good things that it contains all yearn, and those who occupy any post of influence far more than their inferiors. —  Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
• I long for quiet--yearn for it. —  Love at Second Sight

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