hanker

She pleaded that she was too lately from school to hanker after study, but became almost enthusiastic on the subject of music.

Yet there will always be people who will hanker after the medieval and romantic, who will say: 'We men are children.

Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn't things for a hungry man to hanker after.

Try to be happy with your husband—try not to fret over what is irrevocable, and not to hanker after what is hopeless.