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.

I had no hankering for a closer interview with FLOURENS.

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.

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.

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.