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hankering
1. She had never really developed a hankering to try it
2. nagging feeling in the pit of his stomach that all was not well, or maybe it was a hankering for Hob Nobs, he couldn’t tell
3. Having a hankering for outdoor musical festivals, I subscribed to the LC Sun-News and read the entertainment section closely
4. "When anger comes on you or harshness know that he is in you; and you will know this to be the case also when you are attacked by a longing after many transactions and the richest delicacies and drunken revels and divers luxuries and things improper and by a hankering after women and by overreaching and pride and blustering and by whatever is like to these
5. hankering to know that this isn’t simply some prank, and so it will be a while
6. Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit
7. Should he in any manner lend his universe powers to the gratification of the Jewish hankering for the spectacular and the marvelous? He decided that he should not
8. “On deck I think, my usual please--- and I have a hankering for the hazelnut coffee with a dash of cinnamon
9. That is why there should be no hankering after the fruits of ac-
10. The word sat is used when there is firm belief in this truth, when there is a hankering
11. hankering after anything, there is fostered a faith in me that tran-
12. Here's Vicki groaning in the throes of a relapse because someone has written that she met her late lover at a party and that he ate only soup,--here she is overcome by this picture which she translates as a hankering in spite of everything after her, and wanting to write to him, and ready to console him and crying her eyes all red again, and no longer taking the remotest interest in _Comus_ or in those frequent addresses of mine to her on Homely Subjects to which up to yesterday she listened with such flattering respect; and here are you writing me the most melancholy letters, longer and drearier than any letters ever were before, filled with yearnings after something that certainly is not Miss Cheriton—but beyond that certainty I can make out nothing
13. When I look at that, when I am in the clear mood that, looking at the mountains, really _sees_ them, all the rest, the bewilderment and crying out, the clinging and the hankering, seem indeed unworthy
14. "You don't mean to tell me," she said, "that you are still hankering after Mr
15. There were times he could remember previous to that event when he had lost sight of this truth in a confused hankering, periods during which he had hankered persistently, moments that astonished him afterwards to call to mind when, the lilacs being out in the garden and the young corn of the fields asprout in the warm spring sun, his laboratory, that place of hopes and visions, had incredibly appeared to him to be mere bones
16. Jones's dying, and snatched her back to a hankering after the unfit? Had she not taught the entire village to break the Sabbath? Had she not made all its children either sick or cross under the pretence of giving them a treat? On the Monday she did something else that was equally well-meaning, and yet, as I shall presently relate, of disastrous consequences: she went round the village from cottage to cottage making friends with the children's mothers and leaving behind her, wherever she went, little presents of money
17. "Tell me, senor bachelor," said Sancho at this point, "does the adventure with the Yanguesans come in, when our good Rocinante went hankering after dainties?"
18. in these rocks, and I am a beast, you know, that has a hankering for the sweets
19. He looked sideways in a friendly fashion at the sideface of Stephen, image of his mother, which was not quite the same as the usual handsome blackguard type they unquestionably had an insatiable hankering after as he was perhaps not that way built
20. In Texas, the inevitable bust had followed the not-so-eternal boom, and real estate collapses compounded oil price collapses to sink all the banks that had lent cheerfully and aggressively to anyone with a hankering to build
