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Come to me, my children—come to your future home, and come quickly, for this blow has been almost too much for my strength, and I yearnt to see you once more.

1871, John Edwardson, Hollowhill Farm. A Novel., volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 229

He yearnt for the adoption of the means wherewith he could inspire his people with the feelings of love, manliness and sacrifice.

1909, Bhagat Lakshman Singh, chapter VI, in A Short Sketch of the Life and Works of Guru Govind Singh, the 10th and Last Guru of the Sikhs, Lahore: […] “The Tribune Steam Press”, page 32

Yearning is the beginning of spiritual life, of all possession of beauty and holiness. […] And if one lacks the yearning, one at least should yearn for the yearning. As David puts it: “I have yearnt a yearning, O Lord, for Thy righteousness!”

1917, H[yman] G[erson] Enelow, The Varied Beauty of the Psalms, New York, N.Y.: Bloch Publishing Company, page 58

The real Jesus can only be seen against the background of a Palestine whose Jewish people yearnt for liberation, and a Jewish people whose culture produced not only countless freedom fighters banking on the knife, but countless freedom fighters banking on god helping to bring about the Kingdom of God in the world in place of the Roman Empire.

1985 December, Geraldine Duffy, “The Jesus Myth”, in The Leninist, number 26, section “Jesus”, page 13, column 2

This immense success, however, which Victor [Frankenstein] yearnt for many years, soon turns out to be a failure: Victor falls sick of melancholy, and tries to escape from his superhuman creation.

2003, Pathfinder: A Way Through Swiss Graphics, IdNPRO, →ISBN, page 181