Meanwhile, you are not the fellow in Aux Italiens, you know; you are not bothered by the faint, sweet smell of any foolish jasmine-flower, you understand, or by any equally foolish hankerings after your lost youth.

Then some day I'm going to have an awful hankering for the land where the breeze blows, and then we'll take a shute for open prairie.

The Convention, thus assailed in its ambitious hankering for power, was resolved to stand its ground, and called upon the representatives who commanded the armed forces, to defend the republic of their creation.

The greater part of them, we apprehend, will be found to be composed of the following elements: (1) The antisocial principles, and distempered sensibility of Rousseauhis discontent with the present constitution of societyhis paradoxical morality, and his perpetual hankerings after some unattainable state of voluptuous virtue and perfection.

They accounted for it by supposing a silly hankering after the pomp or the frippery of Roman Catholic worship, and at best a craving after the romantic and sentimental.

I was not greedy of money in those days, and had no unscriptural hankerings after laying up treasure upon earth.

Aberdeen has always had a little private hankering after Athens, though he ridicules it.