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“One hopes that as young people become increasingly interconnected and better educated, maybe they will hanker for a different type of politics,” Mutiga said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2017

So it is: the commonest things are as wonderful, more wonderful, than the uncommon; and yet, people will hanker after the uncommon, as if they belonged to God more immediately than the commonest matters.

From Town and Country Sermons by Kingsley, Charles

Her father married again, an' I'm glad to say never had another child, an' I believe hankers for Dawn, an' he will hanker for my part; an' I've got Dawn tootered up agen him too.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles

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

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund