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Sentences ending with yearning

If her plan was successful, she would have accomplished something unprecedented; if she failed--if, while turning, she lost her balance--her scanty stock of pleasure here below would be over, and also her great grief and insatiable yearning. [10]
No voice which the Emperor Charles had ever heard had put such pure, bewitching melody into this expression of the deepest yearning. [10]
They could not suffice to check one sigh of disappointed yearning. [10]
In the convent she had reached the conviction that it would be degrading to think longer of the man who, in return for the most ardent love, offered nothing but alms in jingling coin; yet her poor heart would not cease its yearning. [10]
In sheltered corners of that truculent instrument for the diffusion of the prejudices of the few among the many begin to grow the violets of tender sentiment, the early greens of yearning. [4]
It is our life, and more than our life; for that is measured by pulse-beats, but our religious consciousness partakes of the Infinite, towards which it is constantly yearning. [6]
The horror which had seized him yielded to the most ardent yearning. [10]
He seemed worn and tired, yet I had never thought of him as weary, never attributed to him any yearning. [9]

Sentences containing yearning two or more times

Still she did not speak, but her lip trembled, and the love leaping in his eyes kindled a yearning in hers,--a yearning she was powerless to resist. [9]

More example sentences with the word yearning in them

You do not yet know with how sharp a tooth yearning rends the soul of the man whom Fate condemns to live away from his family. [10]
The artist nature, yearning to create, began to stir within more ceaselessly than ever before. [10]
It was this yearning that attracted Hodder, who found in it a deep pathos. [9]
She felt the yearning in his eyes. [9]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
This is a yearning after beauty and ornamentation which has no other means of gratifying itself. [4]
And she, too, with the subtle senses of a disembodied spirit, must have had a yearning towards him, for she had perceived all the depth and fervor of his passion. [10]
And I yearned with a yearning I cannot express for our cabin in the hills and the old life there. [9]
We do not wish to attach too much importance to this movement, but rather to suggest to a continent yearning for culture in letters and in speech whether it may not be carried too far. [4]
With all the will in the world, their souls lost touch, though the sense in the clergyman of the other's vague yearning for human companionship was never absent. [9]
His eyes were wild, anxious and yearning, his face deadly pale and covered with a cold sweat. [11]
The quiet longing which had mastered him was transformed into passionate yearning, but he restrained it by exerting all the strength of will peculiar to him, for a voice within cried out that he was too insignificant for this marvellous maiden. [10]
She rose and went quietly out into the biting winter night, and stood staring through the trees at the friendly reddened windows of the little cottage across the way with a yearning that passed her understanding. [9]
The same question was written in her yearning eyes, staring at the spot where the gray of his hunting shirt showed through the bushes at the bend. [9]
In Sally's eyes was the story of the past three years: of love and temptation and struggle, of watchfulness and yearning and anxiety, of determination and an inviolable hope. [11]
But her yearning was so great that she soon desisted, and again and again went to the window with a fervent wish that he might come. [10]
But now, without warning, a sudden fierce yearning took possession of her: surprised and almost frightened, she stopped irresistibly and looked back at the thin little figure crouched beside the water, to discover that his widened eyes were still upon her. [9]
She could already walk firmly enough to mount the few rough steps which led to the opening in the rocks and, obeying the tameless yearning of her heart, she rose from the arm-chair and walked as rapidly as her feeble strength permitted toward the frigidarium. [10]
Woman in her very nature is created to be sheltered and protected; and the yearning in her, when her love is given, is intense as nature itself to seek sanctuary in that love. [9]
Her own name, uttered in a tone of intense yearning, followed. [10]
Both were silent under the spell, but a yearning arose within him when he glanced at the sunset glow on her face: would sunsets hereafter bring sadness? [9]
I beheld the tortured faces of the wicked gathered on the one side, and my mother on the other amongst the blessed, gazing across the gulf at me with yearning and compassion. [9]
And too long to explain to a prejudiced audience, who can't be expected to comprehend the character of a genius, to understand the yearning of a famous man for a little quiet. [9]
And he yearned to depart with a great yearning, but something held him there. [9]
How was he to declare that the very perils which threatened her had made a man of him, with all of a man's yearning to share these perils and shield her from them? [9]
It was some time before the old pirate had satisfied his yearning for affection and placed his light burden down beside the fire. [10]
She breathed quickly through her parted lips, and from the yearning in her tired eyes --as she gazed at the poor little form--he averted his glance. [9]
Whoever knows that thought and feeling end with life will not fear death; for, no matter how many dear and precious things the dead have left here below, their yearning for them has ceased with life. [10]
And she remembered this longing and yearning in a way very unlike a mere dream. [10]
She grew suddenly thin and a little worn, and her big eyes had that look of yearning which only comes to those whose sorrow is for another. [11]
It was not the yearning of a maid for a man. [11]
The yearning for the happiness of which she had been so long deprived had again awaked, while the unkind words which he had applied to her still rankled in her heart. [10]
She had noticed the entrance of the visitors, and when she opened her sparkling blue eyes and saw the person to whom her poor heart clung with insatiable yearning they were filled with a sunny radiance, and a smile hovered round her lips. [10]
She should prove that genuine piety conquers even the yearning of a quickly throbbing heart. [10]
We have learned that English criticism is dictated by love for us, by a warm interest in our intellectual development, just as English anxiety about our revenue laws is based upon a yearning that our down-trodden millions shall enjoy the benefits of free-trade. [4]
He expressed his thanks in a few low chords overflowing with yearning and passion; then all was still, for the warder had forbidden him to sing or play at night and he dared not risk losing the man's favor. [10]
Now, as the sun was about to set, the latter gave herself up to a wild tumult of sweet memories, anxious fears, and yearning expectation. [10]
It was a strange, unimagined happiness she knew when she felt it clutching at her breasts, at her heart, a happiness not unmixed with yearning, with sadness as she pressed it to her. [9]
But we stood still, with yearning eyes staring back through the frantic forms for a sight of Tom's. [9]
If a pirate's spear put an end to bondage under the Roman yoke and to this unworthy yearning and wavering, so much the better! [10]
After you have smoked about thirty-five dollars' worth of them in the forenoon, you feel nothing but a desperate yearning to go out somewhere and take a smoke. [5]
She was kind, she was gentle, there was moisture in her eyes, and a yearning something in her face and manner which she could not wholly hide--but she kept her distance. [5]
In summer, when she sat, in the face of all the conventions of the village, reading under the butternut tree before the house, she would feel his eyes upon her, and the mysterious yearning in them would startle her. [9]
He did not see the yearning in the rector's eyes as he turned away. [9]
He would not see the yearning in her eyes as he took his chair; he would not glance at Captain Lige's empty seat. [9]
In her he saw typified all those who possessed the: divine discontent, the yearning unsatisfied,--the fatalists and the dreamers. [9]
At times it rose, vibrant with inexpressible feeling, and fell again into gentler, yearning cadences that wrung the soul with a longing that was world-old and world-wide, that reached out towards the unattainable stare--and, reaching, became immortal. [9]
Is this your response to the yearning cry of a passionately ardent heart? [10]
The yearning and renunciation, the reproaches and doubts which disturbed his life, until recently so easy, had disgusted him with it. [10]
But a vast proportion of it is the product of immature minds, and of a yearning for experience rather than a knowledge of life. [4]
The yearning for peace of mind seemed over. [10]
True, his head often drooped sorrowfully when he thought of his old father; but he had done right in repressing the eager yearning to clasp him to his heart. [10]
With the advent of their joy a great yearning came to save Elise. [11]
The mighty pressure of rising surges of yearning dashed against the monarch's heart, and with tremendous impetuosity roused on all sides the tender desires which for a long time had been gathering in his soul. [10]
The yearning wistfulness of her eyes changed to solemn splendor of joy. [13]
What a dynamometer of happiness are these paltry toys, and what a rudimentary vertebrate must be the freckled adolescent whose yearning for the infinite can be stayed even for a single hour by so trifling a boon from the venal hands of the finite! [6]
She certainly had not forgotten him, and while the remembrance of her blended with the yearning for Daphne which never left him, he sat down and gazed out into the darkness till his head drooped on his breast. [10]
Even he could not fathom the appeal, the yearning, in their dark blue depths. [9]
Our tone toward Nikolaus was so strangely gentle and tender and yearning that he noticed it, and was pleased; and we were constantly doing him deferential little offices of courtesy, and saying, "Wait, let me do that for you," and that pleased him, too. [5]
If any one needed a proof of the yearning people felt, let him go to the bookshops, or read in the publishers' lists to-day the announcements of books on religion. [9]
The fear of Mr. Carvel's displeasure passed from my mind so that I cared not how soundly he thrashed me, and my heart filled with a yearning, born of the instant, for that simple and brave old gentleman. [9]
She had no mission, nor was she afflicted by that modern form of altruism which is a yearning for notoriety by conspicuous devotion to causes and reforms quite outside her normal sphere of activity. [4]
An overmastering yearning, mightier than any emotion ever experienced before, surged through his soul, impelled him towards her, and found utterance in the words: "Maria, Maria, my wife, my guardian angel! [10]
He yearned to leave the endless sage slopes, the wilderness of canyons, and it was in the lonely night that this yearning grew unbearable. [13]
This occupied a large share of her thoughts, but a still greater one was filled with the yearning for her John, of whom, in spite of many inquiries, she could hear nothing. [10]
She had been kind, she had been generous, she had in the past few months given service unstinted; but it was more as her own cure for her own ills than yearning compassion for all those who were distressed "in mind, body, or estate. [11]
Again and again it rose before his mental vision, smiling and beckoning so sweetly that the day must come when the yearning to realize the dream would conquer all opposition. [10]
She was moody, intense, with a yearning for affection I've since sometimes thought--she could not express. [9]
When he was in the fort I dogged his footsteps, and listened with a painful yearning to the stories of his escapes from the roving bands. [9]
Whoever prayed thus in solitude had a soul yearning for the loftiest things. [10]
Ah, my friend, if you could only see, as I do, the yearning for a satisfying religion which exists in this big city! [9]
It seemed as if the wild surges of a sea were roaring in his ears, and glittering sparks were dancing before his yearning, watchful eyes. [10]
It seemed as if the very strength of her yearning should have compelled them to appear. [14]
Even the suffering I had endured had neither silenced the yearning voice of my heart nor cooled the warmth of my blood. [10]
Doubtless there were hours when Barine longed to see her mother and others who were dear to her, but the letters which arrived from time to time prevented this yearning from becoming a source of actual pain. [10]
A day, an hour had transported her from bitter poverty and torturing yearning to the side of the highest and greatest of monarchs, but who could tell for how long--how soon the fall into the gulf awaited her? [10]
There crept into his face a kind of yearning such as one might feel who beheld afar off a promised land, and yet was denied its joys. [11]
Reflection doubtless warned him that it would be a dangerous venture to enter the same life-boat with this woman, yet how bewitchingly beautiful she had seemed to him in her proud superiority, in the agitation of soul aroused by the yearning for a fairer fate! [10]
In that week Hilary's fear of meeting his son in the street or in the passages of the building had been equalled by a yearning to see him. [9]
In eighteen months her figure had gained height; anxious yearning and constant contention with her mother had wasted her superabundance of flesh; her face had become oval, her bearing self-possessed. [10]
The next thing he has a strong yearning to see is the spot where the Saviour was crucified. [5]
Suddenly starting up, he extended his arms toward her; but she sternly repulsed him, that she might control the yearning which threatened to overpower her also. [10]
He would rather have appeared before his pure friend with unsightly stains on his robe than while mastered by yearning for the Thracian. [10]
Because a woman had yielded to idle fears, obeyed the yearning of a mother's heart, and fled? [10]
I see grey, grey, and white, white, and have accustomed myself in my yearning after knowledge, not to attribute the smallest part to my own idiosyncrasy, if such indeed there be existing in my empty breast. [10]
If in her great house, in her dazzling career, in the whirl of resplendent prosperity, she had hours of unsatisfied yearning for something unattainable in this direction, the world would not have guessed it. [4]
He pictured their future life at Grenoble until her heart was strained with yearning for it to begin. [9]
I remembered the first long, yearning look I had given the miniature at Madame Bouvet's. [9]
Those were the features which had worn so tender an expression when, for the first time, he had uttered the never-to-be-forgotten "Because I long for love," and her yearning heart throbbed no less quickly now than on that night. [10]
He no longer doubted Paula, but his heart was full of longing to hear her say once more that she loved him and him alone, and the yearning kept him awake. [10]
Aye, Eva had done so; for, ardent as was the knight's love, something akin to religious devotion blended with his yearning desire. [10]
A letter from Daphne, which reached Thyone's hands at this time, increased the convalescent's already ardent yearning to the highest pitch. [10]
She is well, but has not long to live, and has been yearning to see him and persuade him to go back with her next year. [5]
She was to be dealt with in no common way, nor was the consuming yearning he discerned in her to be lightly satisfied. [9]
The trout bites at the fly, the pike at the worm, and a yearning maiden at her lover's letter. [10]
She recalled him as he had left her, big and strong and sorrowful, with a yearning look that was undisguised, and while her faith in him came surging back again, she could not understand. [9]
When the hour arrived that this proved unattainable, the firmly rooted yearning for happiness still remained the purpose of her existence. [10]
True, those who are further removed from these things cannot know that the master forbids yearning for individual pleasure. [10]
He longed, with ardent yearning, for the sound of her voice, and still more to unburden his sorely troubled soul to her. [10]

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