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hanker after

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hanker after or hanker for
verb desire, want, long for, hope for, crave, covet, wish for, yearn for, pine for, lust after, eat your heart out, ache for, yen for (informal) itch for, set your heart on, hunger for or after, thirst for or after


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I don't take to Sunday-school books, dontchuknow--I don't hanker after them when I can get pie--but I READ them, anyway, because whatever the old man tells me to do, that's the thing that I'm a-going to DO, or tear something, you know.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
I don't know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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