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Definition of Hungering
1. hunger [v] - See also: hunger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hungering
Literary usage of Hungering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1907)
"to an appreciation of literature, and which was hungering only after newspapers.
This last fact in reality explains the secret of the vogue which Willis had ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"THE SOLE-hungering CAMEL A CAMEL, with practical views On the nutritive value of
shoes, To the mosque would repair While 'the folks were at prayer, ..."
3. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"... as it was necessary for them to do; for he made urgent and imperious demands,
like a man hungering after food. ..."
4. A History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau (1877)
"CHAPTER V. Conduct of the Peers—Peerage Reform—Chartism—Radical Chartists- Tory
Chartists—hungering Chartists—Factious Chartists—Orange- ism—Duke of ..."
5. A History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau, Charles Knight (1877)
"... Chartists— Tory Chartists—hungering Chartists—Factious Chartists—Orange-
ism—Duke of Cumberland—Colonel Fairman—Orange Peers—Plot —Action of ..."