Thesaurus / hanker
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Such is their seduction that poets, designers, and ad gurus hankering for inspiration have turned to the fruit since olden times.
THE COLONIAL PAST OF THE KING OF MANGOESSOHINI DAS GUPTASEPTEMBER 10, 2021OZYThey’ve been together for 20 years, and she knew this was something he’d been hankering to do for a long time.
FOUR CIVILIAN ASTRONAUTS. THREE DAYS IN ORBIT. ONE GIANT LEAP. MEET THE INSPIRATION4 CREWJEFFREY KLUGERAUGUST 10, 2021TIMEThe trip represented the birth of a new era in skiing, and a new era in Canada’s mountain legacy, opening a fresh frontier that drew skiers hankering for uncommon adventure and guides hungry for challenge.
HOW ONE MAN SURVIVED A PLANE CRASH AND 5 DAYS IN THE SNOWY CANADIAN WILDERNESS—AND WENT ON TO HELP SHAPE THE MODERN SKI INDUSTRYCASSIDY RANDALLDECEMBER 27, 2020TIMEThey hankered that their future children might feel similarly, partly because, as Brandon put it, “They do better in just learning how to handle life, learning how to handle the real world.”
SARAH FULLER MADE HISTORY. HER PARENTS UNDERSTAND WHY HER MOMENT MATTERS.CHUCK CULPEPPERDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAs the world got weird and we sheltered at home, many of us hankered for the familiar, the stable, the uncool.
THE NEW WAVE OF FISHLESS FISH IS HEREROWAN JACOBSENNOVEMBER 24, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEI've seen just enough of flying fishes to hanker after Mandalay, just enough of Spaniards to long for a sight of Spain.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD"I don't hanker much after the dry job of pumping the colonel," he added, winking at Clifford significantly.
A FORTUNE HUNTER; OR, THE OLD STONE CORRALJOHN DUNLOE CARTERETWhat I really hanker for is to be a painter; and of portraits, on the whole, I think.
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMESI certainly do hanker for about four or five little curly-headed rascals to take on my knee.
THE TURMOILBOOTH TARKINGTONIf there was one thing he did hanker after, it was southernwood; but he couldn't see her grubbin' up things that way.
NARCISSA, OR THE ROAD TO ROMELAURA E. RICHARDSWORDS RELATED TO HANKER
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