But at least you could have acted yearnful, as in, well, if I had the time, I'd watch The Sopranos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stacy Parker Aab: Sen. Obama Dodges the TV Question!] Reference

It abounded in emotion, and was -- to use the impossible word Keats coined -- "yearnful.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

This is the last of these letters to which one could apply so fitly the barbarous word “yearnful,” once coined by Keats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians]

It worked well so far as the administration of the remedy was concerned, but it was fatal to my little, high strung, yearnful dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks] Reference

And then a young woman cried out in a most yearnful voice, "O tell us, you who are wise, how can we make ourselves as beautiful as Pandora!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference

And then a young woman cried out in a most yearnful voice, “O tell us, you who are wise, how can we make ourselves as beautiful as Pandora!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Part I. The Voyage to Colchis. Chapter X. The Departure from Lemnos. The Golden Maid] Reference

Ah! they were grand days, those deep, full days, when our coming life, like an unseen organ, pealed strange, yearnful music in our ears, and our young blood cried out like a war-horse for the battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference

A yearnful distant descendant of his, quoting Sir Richard Blackmore, might well give a similar report about the modish malaise her stylish friends display when "The spleen with sullen vapours clouds the brain,/And binds the spirits in its heavy chain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1] Reference

But as a senior he had picked up the glorified illusion that certain men were set aside for "service" and, going into the world, were to accomplish a vague yearnful something which would react either in eternal reward or, at the least, in the personal satisfaction of having striven for the greatest good of the greatest number.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

A vague yearnful something which would react either in eternal reward or, at the least, in the personal satisfaction of having striven for the greatest good of the greatest number.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

At times I am almost hopeless, and feel like saying to the great yearnful, hungry world: "Grope on forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks] Reference

(O yearnful waves! the kisses of your lips!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Rivulets] Reference