Example Sentences

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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

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.

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 for a chat with you."

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

"That is what I am hungering for, Angus."

From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.