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  •     Whiles, heart-hungry in arms that monster deadly to combat,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Whiles, heart-hungry in arms that monster deadly to combat,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • But here was a heart-hungry girl with absolutely no apparent future.

    A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

  • And she only knew that she was miserable, and heart-hungry, and soul-sick for one who never came, for one who never again _would_ come, forever and forever.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

  • She was heart-hungry for somebody to love, and somebody to love her.

    A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

  • I've got to go through life heart-hungry, loving other people's babies instead of my own, and stepping aside to let all the fair things go past me. '

    Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel

  • "To be all alone," said Betty as though Mollie had not spoken, "and so heart-hungry that a little sympathy from a stranger ----" A sob choked the rest of her sentence.

    The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run Laura Lee Hope

  • Joseph, rising stealthily from his unknown depth, dreaming of finding help from his once benefactor, twice beheld the depth of Ivan's habitual frown, and stole away without making appeal to the heart-hungry man who now, year by year, labored alone in his desolate palace.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • It was an enchanted forest, and the boy, heart-hungry from his two years of city life, was enchanted, too!

    Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

  • Jesus was the first to announce to the heart-hungry that "God so loved the world" that he sent one of his best beloved sons to bear witness to his own eternal love, and to show how all may become participators in its boundlessness.

    Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

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