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A great rush of impatience, suspense, eagerness and heart-hunger fell on the young artist the instant he knew his footsteps were turned toward Memphis and Rachel.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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So she had the felicity of eating a cutlet in the presence of her love, but received no aliment for her heart-hunger.
Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
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It is not here possible to convey an adequate impression of his fiery spirit, his long heart-hunger, and the magnitude of the loss which a wholly uncongenial marriage must ever mean to such a man.
Australian Writers Desmond Byrne
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He travelled from his home, on the western coast of Scotland, to Northumberland, bringing the bread of life to many who were aware of the heart-hunger that consumed them.
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No amount of physical satisfaction will ever allay the heart-hunger, and no flood of Rationalist thinking will ever put an end to the instinctive search after the Unknown God.
Spirit and Music H. Ernest Hunt
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He made man with instincts, and aspirations, and heart-hunger, and divine unrest, that He might give them full satisfaction in Himself.
Friendship Hugh Black
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The past months of thwarting, failure, and heart-hunger had prepared for this movement, to-night it was almost consciously making.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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There were experiences of pride and terror which were common to them both -- the pride and terror of appalling heart-hunger.
The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921
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We're the natural conservatives, who cling to the simple, elemental satisfactions, and there's a heart-hunger that can only be satisfied by a home and a man's protection!
The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920
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The hand of the All-Father has forever soothed the heart-hunger and unrest of life from his troubled breast.
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