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am hungering

  • present progressive of hunger (1st person singular).

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My husband comes and offers me a crystal shell, filled with heavenly dew and ether dust, which is, I suppose, angels' food, but he does not remark that I am hungering and thirsting to death.

From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.

"I am hungering for a chat with you."

From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.

I am hungering for a month or two's     silence.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

And now," said the factor, smiling, "let us have talk of that world of which I am hungering for news.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)

I am hungering and thirsting for them, my heart is burning in me, but they will not come to bring relief in the agony, for I am dying now, I feel that this is death.

From Father Goriot by Marriage, Ellen