Meanings of vague yearning in English

Her kiss had transformed his high vague yearning into hot relentless desire.

She held her arms out to it in vague yearning.

Gusev began to be uneasy after such a conversation and to feel a vague yearning.

No longer did the splendour of the desert fill him with a vague yearning and uneasiness.

It may be a dull and apathetic way of life, stirred with a vague yearning toward higher possibilities.

Every vague yearning he had ever felt toward salt-water stirred again in his blood at the thought of the sea-with Celia.

He was a very talented man, with a broad sweep of skull and a vague yearning for something more tangible-todrink.

Reading these letters at the end of an exhausting day, Briony felt a dreamy nostalgia, a vague yearning for a long-lost life.

For a long, long while she looked at it without any thing but a vague yearning to be united to her adored husband.

And his desire for rest suddenly increased, with a vague yearning, born in him for the first time, to take his grandchildren on his knees.

With that vague yearning, we, like so many Southerners of the period, were wagoning from old homesteads, a thousand miles of travel, to a resting-place.

He lifted them out of themselves, and put a label on their vague yearnings.

An unutterable, indescribable longing filled my soul- avagueyearning for something, I knew not what.

She has moods she cannot understand or manage, and vague yearnings after she knows not what.

The crown of life had been attained, the vague yearnings, the misread impulses, had found accomplishment at last.

Only vague yearnings and emotions and a heartfelt wish to put my shoulder to the great wheel of good.