Yarned

After it was over, Billy the indispensable removed the plates and washed up, and Norah and her father sat by the fire and "yarned" in the cool dusk. ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)

The two old soldiers were talking amicably enough, as all old soldiers do, but they "yarned," as all old soldiers do, and though they talked from Baltimore to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to New York, their conversation was lost on me, for my thoughts went back into my own past, and two pictures came up to me from the time of the war. ❋ Unknown (1877)

My salmon boat was a-soak, but in the snug cabin of the sloop dry blankets and a dry bunk were mine; and we lay and smoked and yarned of old days, while overhead the wind screamed through the rigging and taut halyards drummed against the mast. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And there were even nights — ­rare ones — ­when only Dick and Graham and Paula sat at dinner, and when, afterward, the two men yarned for an hour before an early bed, while she played soft things to herself or disappeared earlier than they. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Breakfast over, and they were at work by the first gray light; and when night descended, they did their cooking and camp-chores, smoked and yarned for a while, then rolled up in their sleeping-robes, and slept while the aurora borealis flamed overhead and the stars leaped and danced in the great cold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On such evenings, while Graham and Dick yarned for their hour before bed, Paula no longer played soft things to herself at the piano, but sat with them doing fine embroidery and listening to the talk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is just a movie – just a story yarned by a great cinematic storyteller, when it comes to the kinds of movies he Cameron does. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Afterward they lounged about indoors, around a fire built on a hearth inprovised from stones, and yarned. ❋ Peter DeWolf (2010)

For the rest, I yarned a good deal with Vincent Eyre, who'd been in the Kabul retreat with me, and was now one of the many wounded in the garrison, or chaffed with the ladies in the old Residency garden, twitting them about their fashions - for after a six-month siege everyone was dressed any old how, with scraps and curtains and even towels run up into clothes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I saw him in school this week, he yarned that he hadnt shown cuz o exams buh next week sha I am optimistic that he will show... ❋ Princesa (2008)

Marsh yarned about the sheep that previous clients had bagged in this area, and frankly I was getting irritated. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I had a cup of coffee and some cold ham, while he yarned away on the hearth-rug. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Blenkiron played Patience, and Peter and I took a hand at picquet, but mostly we smoked and yarned. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That's my multi-coloured, chunky-yarned baby blankie. ❋ Hanya27 (2005)

All that day, being awful hot and close, we stayed in the house and yarned away with mother and Aileen till they thought — poor souls — that we had turned over a new leaf and were going to stay at home and be good boys for the future. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He was a talking sort of chap, and we yarned away with him for a bit. ❋ Unknown (2004)

So we yarned away till we got in sight of the place. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We sat down and we drank and we yarned about old times, but the more he drank the less I liked the look on his face. ❋ Unknown (1990)

Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)

1) To [spin a yarn] - "One time I saw this dog [driving a car], and it was wearing a cape!" 2)"[I'll see you] later on, we'll catch up and have a bit of a yarn" ❋ Wads Millenia (2003)

Man, that [sweater] was so [gorgeous] it gave me an [instant] yarn-on! ❋ Devleger (2008)

"[Pink] yarn?" "[Ganda] yarn?" ❋ Kurisukurisu (2022)

Feeling handsome [yarn]?? ( Feeling [gwapo] yarn?? ) Smart yarn?? ( [Matalino] yarn?? ) ❋ Tilted2 (2022)

"the damn kittens got [my ball] of yarn! how am i going to [knit] my leg [warmers] now!" ❋ Hal (2003)

"Yarn is [the best], [I want] to [marry] him". ❋ Jakub Is The Best (2021)

We went yarning last night and covered the whole [porch], so they couldn't [get out] the next [morning]. ❋ Samantha Miller (2007)

"Why are you [throwing] [yarn] at me?" "[I'm not taking that] yarn." ❋ Sky Williams (2017)

Where the [yarns] at? you [got] [yarn]? ❋ Suuwooop (2012)

A [Yarne] [left me] [alone] again >:c ❋ Smoothzy (2018)