dearness
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This is for spiritual New Englanders, the exiled yearners who can look at a plain wooden barn in a rocky Vermont field and see the Parthenon.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the yearners never had much of a chance.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Georgie heard nothing of this, and the yearners for his taking down went unsatisfied, while their yearning grew the greater as the happy day of fulfilment was longer and longer postponed.
From The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington, Booth
In return, whenever they could borrow the price from commercialized friends, the yearners had her take their photographs artistically, which meant throwing the camera out of focus and producing masterpieces which were everything except likenesses.
From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair
Alphonse Daudet's description of Isabella as a stout queen, who by her massive jaws and high complexion resembled a coarse-rinded blood-orange, would not be endorsed by these humble yearners after the bygone.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
