Usage examples for yearn
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With you being on my knees, my bosom began to yearn over you, it did. – Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade Edition: 10 Language: English
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Sallie's conversation yielded, to the discerning, something of the rich essence of the past; and Agatha began to yearn for a better knowledge of the recluse who had been her friend, unknown, through all the years. – The Stolen Singer by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
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She never asks for sympathy or consideration, you understand, but she makes every woman, and man, too, judging by that rich cripple, Mr. Boswell, yearn over her. – The Place Beyond the Winds by Harriet T. Comstock