What does 'yearn' mean here?
'My dear, I hate the way he yearns. It was bad enough when he was yearning over the thyme on an Aegean hillside with the bullets zipping past his ears—he never failed to let us hear the bullets: I always suspected that he did it by cracking a whip—'

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Yearn means when you like something very much Example: If you have a crush on a boy/girl then you yearn them

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You must like this book :p

Yearn- in the sense it's speaking mean "desire"

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