Craving

Examples

• 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 I was unable to excite in any breast the same craving appetite for knowledge that existed in mine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Allah also had to speak very plainly about the general craving among this household of women for this world's life and its ornature and for finery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A habit formed in this way is difficult to overcome, and many a child when scarcely over its babyhood had a craving which in later years may lead to systematic drug taking. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Since the death of Diana, and the development of his illness, his craving for surety with regard to Winifred amounted almost to obsession. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Perhaps he has a terrible craving for alcohol. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The craving man on the jury rubbed his hands together, and restored the usual hand to his mouth. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The Puritans tried to choke the craving for pleasure in early New England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He did not hold enough to smother the cravings of his superhuman appetite. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A goad thrust me on, a fever forbade me to rest; a want of companionship maintained in my soul the cravings of a most deadly famine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In its long record of failure, in the comparative success of Tammany, those who are aiming at social changes can see a profound lesson; the impulses, cravings and wants of men must be employed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Was he not simply another of the countless wild things of the jungle who preyed upon one another to satisfy the cravings of hunger? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Editor: Myra