What is "hanker"

Usage examples of "hanker".

They had plenty of jerky and smoked fish, but every so often Smoke got a hankering for venison, the tender backstrap fried in a skillet or slow-roasted on a spit above a bed of coals.

And Woolton had seen it there, probably hankered after it himself, the lobcock, and so he caught Braddon out.

And then--and then, who knows But the kind Grave Turns on you, and you feel the convict Worm, In that black bridewell working out his term, Hanker and grope and crave?

To tell the truth he was mean in fortunes and for the most part hankered about the coffeehouses and low taverns with crimps, ostlers, bookies, Paul's men, runners, flatcaps, waistcoateers, ladies of the bagnio and other rogues of the game or with a chanceable catchpole or a tipstaff often at nights till broad day of whom he picked up between his sackpossets much loose gossip.

I have always had a hankering after superstition, of which I do not boast.

If indeed thou apprehendest Him who administers the universe, if thou bearest Him about within thee, canst thou still hanker after mere fragments of stone and a fine rock?

If I had allowed you to go your way to the proverbial dogs, after whose society gilded youths like yourself appear to be always hankering, I should not be sitting here with cold water running down my back and surrounded by Nature in her gloomiest and dampest aspects.

It seems that he is already weary of his retirement and hankers after the flesh-pots of Europe.

Only it wasn't the kind of sickness where you hanker to chuck up what you ate for breakfast.

He was cuter than Aiden Sean any day, although Aiden had that dangerous edge she hankered after.

Nor was there much doubt that Dysart would jump at the offer, because he had always hankered after a military career.

A wretched hanker was my curse and flunking -- as doubtless my enemies had seen at once.

He got in and slid behind the wheel and fingered the gear lever, and tested the clutch and the foot brake--not because he doubted them, but because he had a hankering to feel their smoothness of operation.

A girl who could enkindle Lewis Hewitt to the extent of a black orchid and a dinner on Tuesday, and on Thursday forment the hand-holding hankering in a pure young peony-grower-a girl with a reach like that was something.

He was a boy of eleven, and he also hankered to see an eastern town, all settled up and civilized.