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Meanings of yearning (yearnings) in English
Usage of yearnings in English
1
My unsteady courage often gave place to yearnings for my native planet.
2
You have your own unique set of circumstances, desires, yearnings and dreams.
3
But he knows nothing of the heart of Bengal and its yearnings.
4
Those who did not back Corbyn need to abandon yearnings for yesteryear.
5
Nothing else can meet the deepest needs and yearnings of our time.
6
Nineteenth-century developers in Liverpool created a Kensington, charming evidence of genteel yearnings.
7
We see now that the yearnings of divine love will be satisfied.
8
Your letter filled with useless yearnings of which I thought myself incapable.
9
She was conscious of yearnings for a more earnest life than this.
10
Her breast was stirred with confused yearnings, and every imaginable evil thought.
11
His songs were full of sighs and yearnings, languid lips and sheep's-eyes.
12
But I was alone with all my perverted yearnings for another girl.
13
She found places there-capacitiesfor loving-intenseyearnings-which had remained hidden until now.
14
A father, sire, may for his son's good disregard his own yearnings.
15
The more widespread of the two reflects the yearnings of the poor.
16
Not a glimmering of what Art meant-ofits effort, and its yearnings!
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