What is "yearns"

Usage examples of "yearns".

Meanwhile, I shall look for whatever street passes as Savile Row here, and visit every single tailoring establishment, in hope of discovering a costumier who yearns for far horizons.

The mage who yearns to lean against walls of stone views me as an adder in his bedroll.

When he stands at the viewplate he often yearns to open the ship's great hatch and let himself tumble into the eternal.

The year-captain often yearns to extend some sort of comfort to her that would take the place of the ever more tenuous contact with her sister: to sweep her into his arms, to hold her close, to permit her to feel the simple proximity of another human being.

For the last hour you been chawin’ wind about the soldiers tryin’ to keep us north of the Cimarron, and belly-achin’ about the Comanches, Kiowas and Apaches which yearns for our hair.

You watch that other high-yaller gal—that Sunday Simms—watch the way she yearns at your man.

He said, “Fool, what need for me to wait another hour, when all that woman’s immortal soul yearns to lose itself in mine a thousand times more than it yearns for heaven?