Example Sentences
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As usually happens when I sit down with Marlow, we yarned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our men in their trenches were cleaning rifles, packing away spare kit, yarning there much as they yarned of old over the stockyard fence or the gate of the horse paddock.
From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)
An Australian Field Artillery brigade came to "take-over" from us, and I yarned with their colonel and adjutant and intelligence officer while waiting for our colonel to return.
From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike
Thus they yarned on, and at last Clay took his departure, for it was late.
From Haviland's Chum by Mitford, Bertram
