yearn
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From Time Magazine Archive
“Thy proudest mother’s eyelids fill, As dares her gallant boy, And Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill Yearn to thee, Illinois.”
From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton
The scenery of the Yearn becomes even sylvan now; and though still sweet its murmurs to our ear, they no longer sink into our hearts.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Did'st thou, as day by day, Rolled heavily away, And left thee anxious, nerveless and dejected, Wandering thro' bowers beloved, Roving where he had roved, Yearn for his presence, as for one expected?
From Heathen Mythology by Various
"O Jerry—O Jerry, I love her so … ! Yearn and hunger for her so much … it is a pain!"
From Peregrine's Progress by Farnol, Jeffery
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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