craved

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Why, since Ministers Craved peace with Bonaparte at Chatillon, Should they refuse him peace and quiet now?

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, — Craved all in vain!

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

Craved I thy goods, that were not worthy of praise.

From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier

Craved the land us who craved it, love for love?

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

Like the charger cut in stone, Rearing stiff, the warrior host, Which had life from him alone, Craved the trumpet's eager note, As the bridled earth the Spring.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George