hanker
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Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much fun as he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "Hanker" aids here, with a second wheel-barrow.
From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Johnson, Samuel W. (Samuel William)
Polly Hanker they called her, along of her being Polly Hanks, and likewise wantin' more than other folks had to get along with.
From The Path of the King by Buchan, John
Hanker not too much after worldly prosperity—that corpulent cigar; if you became a millionaire you would probably go swimming around for more like a diseased goldfish.
From Courage by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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Matilda
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