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It’s the kind of experience that makes one yearn for a simple life.
SEXLESS IN THE CITY - FACTS SO ROMANTICANASTASIA BENDEBURY & MICHAEL SHILO DELAYAUGUST 11, 2020NAUTILUS
What wife, what maid did not yearn for you absent, and burn when you were present?
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME II OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLOR
The laborer may be led to despise his well-paid tasks and yearn for their ease, and thus become indolent.
USURYCALVIN ELLIOTT
That commendation makes me yearn to try other ideas, laughed the Captain.
GIRL SCOUTS AT DANDELION CAMPLILLIAN ELIZABETH ROY
It was for these things he longed, these things made him yearn with such passionate eagerness for deliverance, liberty.
A WORD ONLY A WORD, COMPLETEGEORG EBERS
The mans human heart could also yearn, and feel bereavement in spite of faith.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME I OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLOR
A man's soul may yearn to the stars; but so long as the body cannot jump so high, he must accept the body's veto.
WOMEN AND THE ALPHABETTHOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
Yet now, in the fifty-eighth year of his life, he suddenly began to yearn and pine for it.
THE IMPORTED BRIDEGROOMABRAHAM CAHAN
The women seemed to be wearing the spoils of yesterday's pillage, and yet to yearn for to-morrow's.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHES
How could she for one moment pretend that she did not trust him, that her heart did not yearn to go with him.
PHANTOM FORTUNE, A NOVELM. E. BRADDON
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