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  • The "Hanker" aids here, with a second wheel-barrow.

    Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

  • "Hanker" stands on the bottom of the first excavation, receives the blocks from the Diggers, on a broad wooden shovel, and hands them up to the Loader; while the Wheeler, having only the usual distance to carry them, lays them out in the drying rows without difficulty.

    Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

  • When the excavation is to be made deeper, a sixth man, the "Hanker," is needful for economical work; and with his help the cutting may be extended down to nine and a half feet; i.e. through eight feet of solid peat.

    Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel 1869

  • They need to bring them all back, with the School House Rock, and those other health cartoons about "Beans and Rice", and "Exercising your Choppers" with a faux Fonzy, And "Have a Saturday (it's a Sunday)", or "Hanker for a hunk of cheese!"

    amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2003

  • Boyi said Card introduced himself with two other policemen when they came to arrest him at Hanker where he worked.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Polly Hanker they called her, along of her being Polly Hanks, and likewise wantin 'more than other folks had to get along with.

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • "It really wasn't a good season for anyone," Hanker said.

    Berks county news 2009

  • Basically he voted to give 700 billion to Mr. Paulson and then let the Hanker ... on Bad For The Republican Party, Good For Tennessee

    Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee 2008

  • Basically he voted to give 700 billion to Mr. Paulson and then let the Hanker ... on Bad For The Republican Party, Good For Tennessee

    Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee 2008

  • Basically he voted to give 700 billion to Mr. Paulson and then let the Hanker ... on Bad For The Republican Party, Good For Tennessee

    Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee 2008

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