197 examples of hanker in sentences

" "In very sooth, Brian, I hanker for knowledge of our Beltaneha, Walter!"

We don't hanker none for trouble with you.

Yearn, long, hanker, pine, crave.

Did they really hanker after the Institute, or had they come for reasons as trivial as his own?

"It seems to be next door to perfect, for a fact," asserted Max, upon being appealed to for his opinion; but he did not seem to "hanker" after trying it out on his own account.

a show wen Jesse he was around, 'cause the annermiles they jest seem ter hanker arter Jesse's traps.

He didn't hanker much to marry, being young and fairly satisfied with his present lot; but opportunities like this did not often occur, and it seemed his bounden duty to take advantage of it.

Them that goes to the heart and ain't soon forgotten is the kind I hanker for.

We Merricks never amounted to much, an' didn't hanker to trip the light fantastic in swell society.

Hanker not too much after worldly prosperitythat corpulent cigar; if you became a millionaire you would probably go swimming around for more like a diseased goldfish.

"P'raps yer be," remarked Jerry, in English, "but yer ain't ther sort I hanker arter.

The Nepaulese are rather vain of their personal appearance, and hanker greatly after a good thick moustache.

" "An' I don't in the least hanker after that Injun," he called out as the cars began to move.

Mis' Kinney, ye don't know how we all hanker to hear some o' his blessed words agin.

"I shall hanker arter the critter some, but he's a-gettin' too big to be handy; 'n' it's one comfort abaout critters, you ken get rid on 'em somehaow when they're more plague than profit.

So it is: the commonest things are as wonderful, more wonderful, than the uncommon; and yet, people will hanker after the uncommon, as if they belonged to God more immediately than the commonest matters.

But as at that moment we reached the chief New York residence of well-born ice cream soda, for which I always hanker, in spite of snow and slush, much to Evan's disgust, I relieved the situation by plunging in, saying that I was even more thirsty in winter than in summer.

When the Floral Games were announced, the competitors used to tremble lest it might occur to the great Don Carmelo to hanker after some of the premiums.

We thought of rooms in Nedou's Hotel, but our memories of this hostelry in Srinagar were not altogether sweet, and we did not in the least hanker after a second edition; moreover, every available room had been engaged long ago, and it was extremely doubtful, to say the least of it, if the good Mr. Nedou could do anything for us.

That is the real tragedy, the immortal tragedy, that I should still hanker after you, my Cynthia" His voice dwelt tenderly upon her name.

You are, when all is done, not even detestable, not even a worthy peg whereon to hang denunciatory sonnets, you shallow-pated pretty creatures whom poetsoh, and in youth all men are poets!whom poets, now and always, are doomed to hanker after to the detriment of their poesy.

"Are you willing to undertake a hazardous duty?" "I want to do my duty, General; but I don't hanker after danger," said I. "A prudent answer," said he; "come here.

I have heard something, I can hardly say what, which tells me to go forward, not to hanker, not to look backand which tells me best of all that it would be almost like treachery to wish the Father back again.

One li'l drap o' musk on yoh hanker?

They eat rice chiefly, but are fond of ducks and chickens, and they have an incredibly acute sense of smell, not a bad taste in food, and do not hanker to get drunk.

197 examples of  hanker  in sentences