hankering

“I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.”

“Mr. Hall thinks he has no personal hatred of Moore; he says he even likes to talk to him, and run after him, but he has a hankering that he should be made an example of.”

“"[…] You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? […]"”

“One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.”