You did not have to hanker after it: It fell into your lap.
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We in the West still hanker after new and exotic ways to make our lives better.
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They also hanker after some of the benefits overseas teams have access to — sports psychologists, for example.
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What makes this work so strong is that it doesn't hanker after some illusion of a golden moment.
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In fact, the number of young people who hanker after the same 10 professions — 47% of boys and 53% of girls — has grown.
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Instead, I'm fascinated by the potential for autonomous, driverless vehicles and the mass adoption of electric cars; I hanker after a Tesla, not a Testarossa.
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Richard Branson — who turned 69 on Thursday — lives a life many hanker after: as a billionaire who resides on his own privately-owned island and the head of global corporation Virgin, it's not hard to see why.
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Mr Nyusi hopes all will be settled before national elections next year, though some in Frelimo still hanker after a "Savimbi solution": that Mr Dhlakama should just be killed, as was Angola's rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, in 2002.
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Efron's smoothly manipulative performance makes a mockery of their devotion, so much so that at times the movie appears less about the psychology of a specific sociopath than a general comment on women who shield such men and even hanker after them.
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The Diaries of A. Christie. London. > It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and > flamboyant women. Poirot had never been able to rid himself of the fatal > fascination that the Countess held for him."The Capture of Cerebus" (1947).
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The story ends with the farmer saying: "I kin eat a crow, but I be darned if I hanker after it." Although the humor might produce a weak smile today, it was probably a knee slapper by 19th-century standards, guaranteeing the story would be often retold in print and word of mouth, thus explaining, in part, the idiom's origin. In 1854 Samuel Putnam Avery published a version called "Crow Eating" in his collection Mrs. Parkington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.
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There are also many other examples of a fairy mistress bestowing favor upon a mortal man within Irish folklore. After providing many examples of this theme within early Celtic literature, Cross states that, “Those given (examples) above demonstrate beyond the possibility of doubt that stories of fee who hanker after mortal earth-born lovers and who visit mortal soil in search of their mates existed in early Celtic tradition…”.Cross, Tom P. “The Celtic Elements in the Lays of ‘Lanval’ and ‘Graelent’.” Modern Philology.
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Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Ahmadiyyat: the renaissance of Islam, Tabshir Publications, 1978, p.189. Subsequently, Ahmad compared Douglas favourably with Pontius Pilate, declaring him to be a man of much superior character, stating, > In my opinion, Captain Douglas outshines Pilate in imparting judgment > fearlessly and in showing determination and steadfastness ... Pilate showed > cowardice due to fear of the High Priest and the Elders, and acted in a > cowardly manner. But Captain Douglas showed no sign of weakness ... Those > who are blessed with honour from above do not hanker after worldly honours. > This commendable courtesy by the 'Pilate' of our time shall be remembered by > all my followers when I am gone.
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Between 1952 and 1975 he published more than twenty novels, as well as two collections of short stories, a heavily edited collection of his letters, a volume of memoirs, and a selection of his magazine articles. He continued to hanker after a revival of his theatrical career. A 1959 off-Broadway revival of the 1917 Bolton- Wodehouse-Kern Leave It to Jane was a surprise hit, running for 928 performances, but his few post-war stage works, some in collaboration with Bolton, made little impression.Jasen, pp. 241 and 275; and Wodehouse and Ratcliffe, p. 472 Although Ethel made a return visit to England in 1948 to shop and visit family and friends, Wodehouse never left America after his arrival in 1947.
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