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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Yearn
 
  Yearned as the parched land for summer’s rain.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Yearn’d as the captive toiling at escape.
            —Lord Byron		  2
  Yearning, like the first fierce impulse into crime.
            —Thomas Hood		  3
  Yearning, like a swallow in the void.
            —Trumbull Stickney		  4
  Yearning as with child of death.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  5
 
 
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