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  • I have a hankering for some space combat again.
  • Personally, I think it is very fortuitous that this kind of hankering back and forth and subtle "adjustments" of positions this earrly is good for th candidates. McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision
  • English blood, had a kind of hankering after it, and would almost rather have such at his board than even a true-born American; and infinitely more welcome were they than Frenchman, Spaniard, or Erema
  • You'll get a hankering to come back every year in early May when the redbuds open and the dogwoods bloom.
  • From a hankering for human interaction to contact of a more ethereal nature. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • I'm not a lawyer (never even had a teensy tiny hankering to go to law school), but a PhD student in political science.
  • I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation.
  • English by birth, I'd been in Australia for about 10 years and had a hankering to return to my roots, if not permanently, then at least for a considerable length of time.
  • German philosophy after Kant could be summarized as hankering after the noumena, and thus as more “Platonic” than Kant. Matthew Yglesias » Time For a Blogger Ethics Panel
  • But a hankering for privileged information was not all that drew us there. Christianity Today
  • I also developed a hankering to learn Spanish in the new academic year.
  • Perhaps I wanted to set his mind at rest, if he'd ever had any doubts; perhaps I wanted to have a little fun out of him for his d---- d previousness; perhaps, lad, I had a hankering to see the old place for the last time. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
  • I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
  • If I clean off one of the crapoires a term lifted from Lynne for their armoire where they dump crap, though she only has one crapoire and in my house there are numerous crapoires to the point of almost calling the place a crapoireteria then maybe I can try my hand at making vanilla gelato because I have a hankering for an affogato al caffe which is simply vanilla ice cream or gelato "drowned" in a couple of shots of espresso. Archive 2005-08-01
  • In fact, he was starting to feel the nervous hankering toying powerfully with his insides. VAPOR TRAIL
  • Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.
  • Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
  • Thou'rt a greedy glead; -- I'se go ask Simon; but I'll warrant thou'lt be hankering after the reward, and the biggest share to thine own clutches. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • His principal points were that the article did not mean what it appeared to say; that if it did it was not so much an expression of policy as of a "hankering" -- ( "HANKERING. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920
  • But as it lumbers along, you find yourself warming to them and their story, and perhaps even joining them in hankering after those halcyon days of the early 1970s.
  • Poor Paitoo, his colonial hankering of better days destroyed at the door of the choo. WHITE LIES
  • Adults, with a hankering for childish humour, will delight in his misadventures.
  • They look pretty normal and aren't hankering after a tasty morsel of human flesh. Times, Sunday Times
  • These more serious hazards are not necessarily reasons to deny your hankering for adventure.
  • I spent almost the whole day sleeping, which was decidedly lovely, and I've been hankering to play Civilization: Call to Power for a couple of days, so despite a long To Do List, that's what I'm going to do.
  • Next time you get a hankering for a beach vacation, check out this paradise.
  • No motive was established for the crime, beyond a vague hankering for the bachelor life.
  • Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
  • Still hankering after shine? Times, Sunday Times
  • The wife is an old coquette, that is always hankering after the diversions of the town; the husband a morose rustick, that frowns and frets at the name of it. The Coverley Papers
  • He feels no hankering to play rounds with his former pool hall friends.
  • Lately I've had a powerful hankering to get on the radio again.
  • I always had this hankering to take it further. Times, Sunday Times
  • He insists that he is no longer hankering after the leadership. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has helped that audio work gratifies not only his artistic side but also his technological-geek hankerings. 'The Glass Menagerie': Sound designer Matthew M. Nielson conjures up auditory effects
  • Anyhow, since I am otherwise entirely urban, it seems unlikely that this particular hankering is going to be satisfied in the near future. Goatscape
  • Over the weekend I found myself with a hankering to see lousy movies.
  • I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
  • Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard
  • Nor does his comment upon America suggest a hopeless hankering after an actual country.
  • Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conservatives, "hankering" after the offices, accepted unconditionally the annexation of Texas, they were called Hunkers. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • Besides, I had to tell Graham what had kept me and, in my experience, a story that's told too often gets to be tedious to the teller and I have a hankering to write it out properly one day.
  • Our ability to feed our families, have universal health care or be a vibrant nation is becoming dependent on visiting tourists with disposable incomes who have a hankering to get high.
  • Rubin says he has always had a hankering for public life.
  • Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
  • His use of the unclassical and perhaps anachronistic word "huckster" shows us both what he takes from and brings to Kabir's poetry, which is to allow his own poetic mind to take off from the basic message and conceptual frame of Kabir's Hindi lines, without hankering after a word-for-word fidelity. When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
  • Now many astrologers seem to have a hankering, a hunger even, for scientific respectability that never fails to amaze me.
  • Coming from a long line of plumbers, his lifelong hankering for an acting career had somehow never seemed a realistic option.
  • Two separate sets of friends had gone there and instructed me not to follow in their footsteps, but every time I passed the Spanish deli at Canonmills, I had a hankering to try the restaurant.
  • He insists that he is no longer hankering after the leadership. Times, Sunday Times
  • The experts also say many potential big-wig Tucson visitors have a hankering to play golf when they attend a convention.
  • I had a hankering to drive the ocean road.
  • To be honest, I'm hankering to work on some of my ‘real’ writing for a bit, maybe putting out two new books using that cool new Cafe Press publishing service.
  • They look pretty normal and aren't hankering after a tasty morsel of human flesh. Times, Sunday Times
  • I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
  • I have a hankering to become a Canadian, actually.
  • Part of me was hankering after the days before Fraser. Times, Sunday Times
  • From a hankering for human interaction to contact of a more ethereal nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • They're kind of hankering, pard, and, mum, if you are willin ', and ain't' fraid to trust her with us, why, we'd be mighty glad to tote her -- just for a few minutes -- over to camp. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
  • English by birth, I'd been in Australia for about 10 years and had a hankering to return to my roots, if not permanently, then at least for a considerable length of time.
  • Anyone with a hankering for an ostrich fillet or a brochette of kangaroo but not sure where in Kerry they might get hold of such delights such check out the latest addition to dining out in Killarney.
  • ‘I know he had a hankering to be hands-on again,’ says McLeish.
  • Our culture, he believes, is given over to unbridled curiosity and a constant hankering for the forbidden.
  • Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
  • If I clean off one of the crapoires a term lifted from Lynne for their armoire where they dump crap, though she only has one crapoire and in my house there are numerous crapoires to the point of almost calling the place a crapoireteria then maybe I can try my hand at making vanilla gelato because I have a hankering for an affogato al caffe which is simply vanilla ice cream or gelato "drowned" in a couple of shots of espresso. Archive 2005-08-01
  • He believed in justice, for the most part, but he also had a hankering for a paisley silk waistcoat with a decent fit.
  • Right now it's just after 9am on the East Coast, so many of you are probably just settling in to your chairs with some hot coffee and a hankering to do something other than work.
  • The concrete, pebble-dashed trees under the plaque suggest that this form of community history is made up of a hankering back to a rural idyll, but one that is compromised already by the urban.
  • I had a hankering to resume the game of guessing songs again, although straining to hear other people's personal stereos in the gym is not only sadder than doing it on the bus but it makes you look stupid.
  • I am hankering after a new warm tweed or wool winter coat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Still hankering after shine? Times, Sunday Times
  • I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
  • Are you hankering to increase your knowledge of lesser psychedelic bands or the maybe just dig up some information on Holland, Dozier and Hollands' ill fated seventies soul label?
  • So, if you have a hankering to be creative and would like to makeover your home this spring, or you have a sewing machine stashed away that you never quite got round to using then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
  • Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
  • Still hankering after something short, sharp and sequined? Times, Sunday Times
  • Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
  • She's always hankering after excitement.
  • I always had this hankering to take it further. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barber, meanwhile, had been hankering after writing opera as early as 1932, though he initially avoided approaching his partner for a text.
  • Just as we crossed a little opening, Johnnie fired, the ball cutting Bear's jugular vein and also his windpipe, but the bear still seemed to have a "hankering" after me and kept coming for several yards. Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains
  • She did develop a terrific hankering for a crucifix, though.
  • Coffee options are tailored not just to a hankering for sweet or bitter, black or milky.
  • Part of me was hankering after the days before Fraser. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no longer a naval tradition among yachtsmen, nor any hankering after playing naval sailors.
  • Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
  • We opted to start with two entrées with enough of each for the six of us to share - honey cauliflower because I insisted and onion bhaji because we all had a hankering for it.
  • Many a Texan hankering for venison has settled for a cheeseburger.
  • Paul O'Neill was not a person looking, really hankering to get back into national politics and national policy anytime soon.
  • `Do I take this spirited defence of a London canonry to mean that you're hankering for the great metropolis? ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • Go clear out the dishwasher, if you're still hankering for something to do. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • A few weeks ago I had a hankering for my old haunts and I dragged Fred over to San Francisco's version of Italy for a leisurely afternoon brunch.
  • Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard
  • Even though I know the book takes priority, I have a real hankering to write some short stuff.
  • We opted to start with two entrees with enough of each for the six of us to share - honey cauliflower because I insisted and onion bhaji because we all had a hankering for it.
  • But there are only so many times you can sing a one-verser like "Twinkle Twinkle" before you get a hankering to mix it up a bit. Archive 2007-08-01
  • Quite refreshing to find a sober-headed view of contemporary marriage and relationships co-existing with an honest hankering for past social mores - and no liberal should find anything wrong with people hankering for past social mores so long as they don’t visit them on us and our transbisexual menages-a-quatre communes, obviously. Tax before marriage
  • Now many of the newspaper's young writers are hankering after careers in journalism.
  • That was when I realised that the camera had stayed in its case all the way, and that I'd missed an opportunity to grab townscape shots from which to work up pictures of the kind I am hankering to paint.
  • En route to home I got a hankering for a big thick hot American Pastrami sandwich.
  • Frustratingly, one aspect of the dream appeared to be a hankering for restoration of parts of the past.
  • Fred's paternal side of the family is German and he suddenly had a hankering for these potato cakes his grandmother made him when he was a child.
  • No former president has had a hankering to be more than a memoirist, or reputation burnisher.
  • Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
  • Still hankering after something short, sharp and sequined? Times, Sunday Times
  • I have a hankering to start off the new study with a new computer.
  • I have an unhealthy hankering for a new chair.
  • A pity and shame it was, but it would make him more than ever a mere priestling, ever hankering after books and trash! The Herd Boy and His Hermit
  • Thirty-four, and fit again, he has a hankering to get off the rollercoaster which has been his career since he was unveiled as Rangers' big-name Scottish signing two years ago.

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