Have an appetite for

Usage examples of crave.

And Furvain, glancing for just a moment into his wine-bowl as though some poem might be lurking there, would draw a deep breath and instantaneously begin to recite a mock epic, in neatly balanced hexameter and the most elaborate of anapestic rhythms, about the desperate craving of a Pontifex for sausage made of steetmoy meat, and the sending of the laziest and most cowardly of the royal courtiers on a hunting expedition to the snowbound lair of that ferocious white-furred creature of northern Zimroel.

By marrying Ata he sated her craving for eternal life, but the wedding also guaranteed that she would be nearby to quarrel with him for the rest of his existence.

The reader will understand, therefore, that when the genius and his mate proposed to start on Macpherson, they were laying out a capacious contract for the cast-iron canvasser, and were taking a step which could only have been inspired by a morbid craving for excitement, aided by the influence of backblock whisky.

Instead, she had to endure the craving lusts and hope in time that she could come to accept Malcolm as easily as she had accepted Ashton.

However else it might be with the deads, they clearly had no craving for fancy architecture.

October of 1985, at a time when, as he put it, Elson craved warmth and brightness in his life, he met a woman.

The Brothers were severely censured for encouraging geophagous inclinations among the local nobility, whose ladies they had inspirited with a craving for the taste of the local earth, as seasoning, or a dish in itself: it was, after all, Spanish earth.

Dared to indulge in the headiest of spirits-a forbidden kiss-though he should not have craved such whilst out of rut.

Dared to indulge in the headiest of spirits - a forbidden kiss - though he should not have craved such whilst out of rut.

Laneff was drawn hyperconscious by that unexpectedly alluring promise of every pleasure her body now craved.

That was how much his body craved even the scanty nourishment the Japs gave him.

When the earth falters and the waters swoon With the implacable radiance of noon, And in dim shelters koils hush their notes, And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat, BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.

Only true mates allowed this personal touch, and with Dark, Luca found that he craved its biting heat and the flood of desire it produced in his hot blood.

The population had grown, and the valley floor had remained empty, holy ground occupied only by the Worldtree and the ruins of the first Temple, used only for worship, for picking mossberries, and for battles between tribes and nations that craved possession of the Worldtree.

Harry, who could not help wondering why the Death Eaters had not yet tracked down Slughorn if hampers of sweets, Quidditch tickets, and visitors craving his advice and opinions could find him.