He hungers after wisdom.

"Ah, she hungers for those dead years, Rudolph, and, though you devote your whole remaining life to her, nothing can ever make up for them; and she always hates those shadowy women who have stolen them from her.

The creature regarded us attentively, and with affection rather than malice,saw simply certain amounts of savory flesh, useful for the satisfaction of ursine hungers,and saw nothing more.

I am only a man, with a man's heart that hungers for you, cries for you, clamours for you day by day!

Allworthy betook himself to those pleasing slumbers which a heart that hungers after goodness is apt to enjoy when thoroughly satisfied.

However we may hint at its explanation by theories of inheritance, it still remains curious with what unerring instinct a child of character will from the first, and when it is so evidently ignorant of the field of choice, select, out of all life's occupations and distinctions, one special work it hungers to do, one special distinction that to it seems the most desirable of earthly honours.

He hungers to feel that his personality counts for something, though it be merely to anger his fellow-men.

I am hungry to see every brother and sister comfortably and alone, and hungry to be out all day seeing every old spot and old face in the place and village, and hungry to be always with Papa and Mama, and hungry to read all the books in the libraryand none of these hungers can be satisfied.

She could never be with people who had all the things she envied without being hypnotized into the belief that she had only to put her hand out to obtain them, and all the unassuaged rancours and hungers of her early days in West End Avenue came back with increased acuity.

What every journeyman safe in his pouch will hoard There for remembrance fondly stored, And rather hungers, rather begs than spend!

Weal, woe, become mere phantasy; He hungers 'mid satiety; Be it joy, or be it sorrow, He postpones it till the morrow; Of the future thinking ever, Prompt for present action never.

Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring:the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity:he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities.

The good slave, too, has a morality of restraints; he abstains from the food he handles and hungers for, and he denies himself pride and initiative of every sort.

"And my heart hungers to commence right here, now, at once!

For just in as far as a man hungers and thirsts after righteousness and truth, he will hunger and thirst after nothing else.

Indeed the instinct persists when it is obviously useless, as in the case of a dog who turns round to flatten the grass before lying down on a carpet; and even when it is known to be dangerous, as when a man recovering from typhoid hungers for solid food.

She can give nothing to the young soul that thirsts and hungers for these things.

I'm a crazy sort of a beggar, my little lovethat same thing in me hungers and thirsts and aches for freedom.

He had money, she knew; but that was all she knewand money to a woman whose heart hungers for love seems very little.

And Philosophy knows what Logic can not learn, that reason is not the only faculty by which truth is apprehendedthat the hungers and intuitions of the Soul are worth more than syllogisms.

The natural necessity and natural good underlying such crude institutions is far less often a subject of speculation; yet the healthy hungers which lie at the back of the habits of modern democracy are surely worthy of the same sympathetic study that we give to the dogmas of the fanatics long dethroned and the intrigues of commonwealths long obliterated from the earth.

They forgot the common good and devoted themselves to the gratification of body hungers.

But the "barbarians" who are tearing the social body of western civilization limb from limb are not outsiders, invading a civilization in order to plunder and sack it, but the offspring of well-to-do civilized affluent communities who have repudiated the acquisition and accumulation of material goods and services, turning, instead to the satiation of body hungers and the freedom of social irresponsibility.

He had taken to carnal repasts with the eagerness of a crotchety man affected with a depraved appetite and given to sudden hungers, whose taste is quickly dulled and surfeited.

There's satin shoon upon thy feet and emeralds in thy hair, And one there is who hungers for thy step upon the stair.