Which preposition to use with hankering

after Occurrences 65%

But this god, whom some in their folly name Love, always hankering after things unholy, ministers only to those whose fortunes are prosperous.

for Occurrences 28%

So we pulled up anchor, not Hankering for any more such sport, and left the Hook, very glad to Hook It.

after Occurrences 20%

Having, with great warmth and earnestness, used these arguments, he concluded, by plainly hinting to his wife that she had always been the apologist of the tailor, in all their disputes; and that she could not be so obstinately blind to the irrefragable reasoning he had urged, if she were not influenced by her old hankering after this fellow, and did not consult his interests in preference to those of her own family.

for Occurrences 14%

I had no hankering for a closer interview with FLOURENS.

in Occurrences 2%

Not that it was an ugly face; nay, rather; it seemed a handsome one, full of strength and vigour and resolution; but there was a cruel hankering in his steel-blue eyes.

about Occurrences 2%

I hold my life, this beggarly scholar hankers about her still, makes her so untoward.

toward Occurrences 1%

But it is strange, that Sherlock should not have seen that Grotius had a hankering toward Socinianism, but, like a 'shy cock', and a man of the world, was always ready to unsay what he had said.

of Occurrences 1%

I cannot explain, by any possible energy of words, what a strange longing or hankering of desires I felt in my soul upon this sight, breaking out sometimes thus: "O that there had been but one or two, nay, or but one soul, saved out of this ship, to have escaped to me, that I might but have had one companion, one fellow-creature to have spoken to me, and to have conversed with!"

to Occurrences 1%

"Nothing willyou know I'm not hankering to diebut I don't mind taking a sporting chance with a game like that.

of Occurrences 1%

It's the same old world-wide feeling that comes to man each year, But it seems to hit us harder, when we're getting in the "clear"; It seems that it grows stronger, each year added to our life It's the hankering of the white man for a Pal, a Home, a Wife.

to Occurrences 1%

I then took a strange Hankering to Coals; I fell to scranching 'em, and had already consumed, I am certain, as much as would have dressed my Wedding Dinner, when my Uncle came for me Home.

Which preposition to use with  hankering