Crave

Examples

• No greater boon could I ask, no greater honour could I crave, no greater happiness could I hope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I crave pardon, noble lord, said Isaac timidly, but wherefore should I rely wholly on the word of one who will trust nothing to mine? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Holy father, said the knight, upon whose countenance it hath pleased Heaven to work such a miracle, permit a sinful layman to crave thy name? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• My Liege, said the Friar, I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If I have offended, replied Sir Brian, I crave your pardon,--that is, I crave the Lady Rowena's pardon,--for my humility will carry me no lower. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Contentment still I crave, Because Thou savest such. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Then let me crave your assent also to a further observation. Plato. The Republic.
• His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• All he craved was water, and this she brought him in the only way she could, bearing it in her own mouth. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It seemed cruel to refuse him the comfort he craved for. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She struggled to get more and more into accord with the atmosphere of the place, she craved to get her satisfaction of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Tarzan, more than the apes, craved and needed flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• For the moment she must yield to the refreshment her senses craved--after that she would reconsider her situation, and take counsel with her dignity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But it was not so; I was the same in strength, in earnest craving for sympathy, in my yearning for active exertion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And he's got a craving to throw himself into the filth of her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There are three principal forms the craving of life takes, and all are evil. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A sound of craving and eagerness that had nothing articulate in it but blood. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But my curiosity will be past its appetite; it craves food now. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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