"Hunger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time," said Fosdick. "As to the hunger, that's easily remedied. We shall get home to breakfast, and be in good ...
— Fame and Fortune - or, The Progress of Richard Hunter • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... have travelled very far to see us—you have climbed over mountains—you have swam over deep and rapid torrents—you have endured cold, and hunger, and fatigue, in order that you might have an opportunity of seeing your red brethren. For this, so long as life exists within us, we shall be ...
— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge
... to orders. The governor, a man of cruelty, condemned the poor woman to a death which none but the most-cruel tyrant could have thought of. He ordered some soldiers to take her out into the country, and leave her tied to a tree, either to die of hunger, or be torn to pieces by the wild beasts. Two days later, he sent the same soldiers to see what had happened to her. To their great surprise, they found her alive and unhurt, though surrounded by lions and tigers, which a lioness ...
— Anecdotes of Animals • Unknown
... daily her affection for him had grown; and there was Thornton—this man beside her, whose companionship somehow she seemed to crave for, who, in his grave, quiet manliness, seemed a sort of inspiration to her, who seemed in a curious way to appease a new hunger that had come to her for association, for contact with better thoughts and ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... her native glen, and the cottage that had been her father's, that had been her own, stood before her. She had travelled all the day and sold nothing. Her children were pulling by her tattered gown, weeping and crying, "Bread, mother, give us bread!" and her own heart was sick with hunger. ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various
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