1 But come, fill a flagon, for it will crave some time to tune the harp; and nought pitches the voice and sharpens the ear like a cup of wine.
2 I crave pardon, brave Outlaw," said the Knight, "your reproof is just.
3 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.
4 Then, to speak more plainly," continued the physician, "and I crave pardon, sir, should it seem to require pardon, for this needful plainness of my speech.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 5 Forty days and forty nights did the imps crave our blood around this pile of logs, which I designed and partly reared, being, as you'll remember, no Indian myself, but a man without a cross.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 6 The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 7 Borne by that flood over many desolate seas, we crave a scant dwelling for our country's gods, an unmolested landing-place, and the air and water that are free to all.
8 She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.
9 His craving was for the companionship of one whose point of view should justify his own, who should confirm, by deliberate observation, the truth to which his intuitions had leaped.
10 The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night.
11 Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble.
12 In the winter bleakness a hunger for colour came over people, like the Laplander's craving for fats and sugar.
13 So there came a time when nearly all the conscious life of Jurgis consisted of a struggle with the craving for liquor.
14 At the end of that time, however, his memory of his wrongs and his craving for revenge were quite as keen as on that memorable night when he had stood by John Ferrier's grave.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 15 Wert thou now in thy treasure-chamber at York, and were I craving a loan of thy shekels, it would be thine to dictate the time of payment, and the pledge of security.