yearn
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Yearn to have your weekly groceries delivered to your door? Peapod.com exists to make your grocery shopping easier--and it even lets you specify how ripe you like your bananas.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But I, when blossom and fruit are gone, Yearn, steadfast, to the skies.
From A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart by Various
Tell him that his little chair Nestles where the sunbeams meet, That the shoes he used to wear Yearn to kiss his dimpled feet.
From Second Book of Verse by Field, Eugene
Yearn, to long, to feel tenderness towards, e.g.
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by Turner, Winifred
Vocabulary lists containing yearn
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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