hanker

Plunged right away into monogamy, man, unexperienced in his good fortune, hankers after polygamy, as the monotheistic Jew hankered after polytheism; and thus the monogamic young man too often meets Aphrodite for the first time, and makes future appointments with her, in the arms of his pure young wife.

He then immediately proceeded to his complaints, and said, "There, my lady cousin; there stands the most undutiful child in the world; she hankers after a beggarly rascal, and won't marry one of the greatest matches in all England, that we have provided for her."

He was thinking of his own self; he hankered after the meretricious glory of a showy performance.

Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent's authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself - which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.

I don't take to Sunday-school books, dontchuknow--I don't hanker after them when I can get pie--but I READ them, anyway, because whatever the old man tells me to do, that's the thing that I'm a-going to DO, or tear something, you know.

"Well, anyways, I doan' hanker for no mo' un um, Huck.

Leslie said to tell you she hankered after cherry pie, but she couldn't come to tea because she has to go and hunt up her turkeys.

There's many another man 'ud hanker more than he does.

But still he hankered for her in his heart, and from that hour he hated me because I had crossed his will and robbed him of his desire.

In my fly-blown blankets I dreamt of London until I hankered after my chambers and my club more than after much fine gold.

I don't know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.

Steven Hankers, pictured right, stored more than 4,000 video clips he'd made by accessing people's private CCTV systems.