And look o'er the field -- yes! and "hanker" for more. From Wordnik.com. [The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation] Reference
The solitude appealed to her sense of freedom; she did not "hanker" after a society she had never known. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference
Maybe there's a teary eye, that needs a little hanker. From Wordnik.com. [A Song About the Bishop of Argyll] Reference
Maybe Susan Jane'll kind o 'hanker arter the care I gave. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
RICHARDS: Well, I don't really hanker to hold office again. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2003] Reference
Don't act like a gonus, -- don't hanker arter the flesh-pots. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Trivial might some say who hanker after giantesque composition. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
I like the Germans because they don't hanker after the unknown. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
I thought you were shy, and it ain't city girls you hanker for?. From Wordnik.com. [Randy and Her Friends] Reference
Despite the success, he began to hanker for independence again. From Wordnik.com. [Stand-Up Guy: From Bear Stearns to Bear Market] Reference
But if you hanker for these pictures of the past that is another matter. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917] Reference
They are exceedingly restless, for they always hanker after new companions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
There was a faint scent of charred meat which made me hanker for my dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
We want for nothing that's needful, and hanker after nothing beyond our needs. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession of Brother Haluin]
Don't hanker arter the ocean nor the desert till ye know how t 'handle yerself. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Ironically, this man, better suited to wear a crown, would not hanker after it. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
He did not hanker after the leadership, he explained in a circular letter to members. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 19] Reference
I can make a living for myself and my small family, and we do not hanker after riches. From Wordnik.com. [The Brand of Silence A Detective Story] Reference
You see what it is to wander off the straight course and hanker after forbidden gains. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
Helena Justina was not one to hanker for leisure pursuits when we had an investigation. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
And he says he doesn't hanker much after heaven; that home is plenty good enough for him. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
But sometimes I hanker after something more festive, a bit more celebratory and exuberant. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's summer drinks recipes] Reference
I shall recollect you as a very pleasant tale that is told, -- not a friend to hanker after. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
These forces hanker for the past: they can therefore be characterised as "strategic reaction". From Wordnik.com. [DEBATING CASTELLS AND CARNOY ON THE NETWORK SOCIETY1] Reference
President Mandela promotes so tirelessly, will not be undermined by the few who hanker back to the past. From Wordnik.com. [THREATS OF PROTEST ACTION BY CERTAIN CONSERVATIVE AFRIKANER GROUPS] Reference
For those who, despite all this, still hanker to have a go at nation building, why start with Afghanistan?. From Wordnik.com. [Malou Innocent: Myth v. Fact: Afghanistan] Reference
Did she already hanker after some handsome young aristocrat rendered ineligible by common sense and necessity?. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Their comments in this regard confirms our long held view that they continue to hanker after the old apartheid days. From Wordnik.com. [RESPONSE ON COMMENTS BY DP, NP] Reference
The surge is to garner the support of one side, the reassurances of withdrawal to hanker to the desires of the other. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Thus we shall build a real South Africa, not the parody evoked by those who hanker for an artificial life of privilege. From Wordnik.com. [REPLY BY PRESIDENT MANDELA TO THE DEBATE ON HIS ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT] Reference
He, and his party, must make up their minds if they want to continue to hanker back to the past, or move into the future. From Wordnik.com. [THREATS OF PROTEST ACTION BY CERTAIN CONSERVATIVE AFRIKANER GROUPS] Reference
But it is now a question of teaching our stomach to accept whatever food is available for the taking, rather than hanker for rice. From Wordnik.com. [Root crops best alternative against rice shortage] Reference
The difference between us "wing-nuts" and lovey-dovey liberals is that we don't purport to hanker after some sort of illusory utopia. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The Iraqis, many of them, sort of hanker for the stability of certainty of life, even if it was a life of appalling repression before. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2003] Reference
North of the Ilbar River, where Serbs form a majority they run parallel public institutions and hanker for integration with Serbia proper. From Wordnik.com. [In Kosovo, progress is clear but work remains] Reference
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