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Hungry

adjective

(compar. hungrier; superl. hungriest)

Feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food.

(usually followed by 'for') extremely desirous. Synonyms: athirst, thirsty. "Hungry for recognition" , "Thirsty for informaton"

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"Hungry" Quotes from Famous Books

... problem which had to be solved before settlement on a large scale could be begun was that of governing the territory. Pioneers who looked with hungry eyes on the fertile valley of the Ohio could hardly restrain their impatience. Soldiers of the Revolution, who had been paid for their services in land warrants entitling them to make entries in the West, called ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... everything. It is always a bad year with farmers, isn't it? The house is tight-packed, as usual. They always have visitors. I was glad to escape to this delicious roominess. They are all outrageously well and hungry, as Dad says. And some of them will love to come after Christmas, if you can really have them. They must be at home for Christmas, they say. I am sure some of ...

— Love of Brothers • Katharine Tynan

... not my title equally well chosen? Is not the Church smitten with poverty? Have not ten thousand of our brethren been driven from their homes to beg or to starve? Have not the houseless poor, whom we fed at our gates, and lodged within our wards, gone away hungry and without rest? Have not the sick, whom we would have relieved, died untended by the hedge-side? I am the head of the poor in Lancashire, the redresser of their grievances, and therefore I style myself Earl of Poverty. ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... beginning. It was ordered that every one should keep the Sabbath by going to church, and all men between eighteen and forty should do four days of military duty every year, as well as "entertain emigrants, visit the sick, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, attend funerals, cabin raisings, log rollings, huskings; have their latchstrings always out." Perhaps the reader has heard before this of having the latchstring out, but has not known just what the phrase meant. The log cabin door in those days was fastened with a wooden ...

— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... cake and poured out magic milk. And they ate and drank together, for they were hungry. And at this point the cat began to show an ...

— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

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