As is usually the case, the colonists had ravenous appetites, and it was impossible to raise enough food crops to feed them, so that food had to be bought, and the capital was thus seriously drawn upon.
So ravenous were their appetites that a colonist employing an Indian was compelled to allow him a quantity of food double that given an English laborer.
A moment later Cracker was in scared, yelping flight from the pain and horror of Billy's blazing club, and the pack was in ravenous chase of him.
Perhaps, in spirit, he was close to me to keep off the ravenous beasts and to strengthen my heart.
They assemble in great numbers in the villages about the end of the wet season, and are then ravenous with hunger.
Towards February, they return to the villages, and are then not nearly so ravenous as before their summer trips.
I perceive you have succeeded in appeasing your ravenous appetite, my Cestus--I see it in your face.
It is the danger of the ravenous stomach that it overloads itself when it gets the opportunity,' replied Cestus, with a grin and a hiccough.
The peasant standing in the porch with arms akimbo, and the lean cat rubbing ravenous sides against her wooden shoes, peered forth from under the rich red leaves of the creepers that shrouded the pointed roof of the doorway.
Yet she had come out in the storm, and had brought away her food for strangers, though she had been at work all day long, and was chilled to the bone, and was devoured with ravenous hunger.
She muttered the word dreamily; and raised her aching eyelids, and stared in stupefaction at the old, haggard, dark, ravenous face of Pitchou.
About the child's head there hung a little band of glittering coins; they were not gold, but the woman Pitchou thought they were, and seized them with gloating hands and ravenous eyes.
But the Tartars were of a different species, remarkable for their ravenous disposition, and for this reason, the central kingdom with the eastern provinces, in order to prevent their invasion, built the great wall.
I was cold, but even that did not affect me so much as ravenous hunger.
When, however, I had almost quenched my ravenous thirst, I made a discovery.
The two hideous and ravenous monsters passed within fifty fathoms of the raft, and then made a rush at one another--their fury and rage preventing them from seeing us.
They had seen horses nibble leaves, and they expected Whitey to nibble the leaves of this branch; but his ravenous condition did not allow him time for cool discriminations.
His curiosity, merely piqued before, now became ravenous and painful.
At length the tables were prepared and the ravenous warriors seated themselves.
The doctors could not believe their eyes, their astonishment burst forth at each fresh cure, when they saw the patients whom they had despaired of run and jump and eat with ravenous appetites.
And one and all made haste, and devoured with the ravenous hunger born of their fatigue, that insatiable appetite which so often follows upon great moral shocks.
Turning its hideous jaws upward, the ravenous creature had literally swallowed "hook, line and sinker.
In a few seconds they were in the midst of the school of sharks that had assembled as if by magic, ravenous for the flesh of their dead brother.
Heads of Districts are in fervent consultation; subordinate Patriotism roams distracted, ravenousfor arms.
The rough sailors seemed as if by a magic touch transformed back from ravenous beasts to human beings, and I saw several of them raise their hands to heaven in silent gratitude.
For years thereafter, through dark and bright days, she conveyed that nest of hungry fledglings back and forth over bitter and weary miles, getting their ravenous minds fed at one end of the route, and their ravenousbodies fed at the other.
Alluding to the boy (and future man) killing animals as well as men, whose eyes will be left, as the singer anticipates, to be picked out by ravenous birds.
Whither goest, Eye-bright lover, Ah thou ravenous bird that knowest, I see you hover.
In the little dining salon of the officers' mess, Wilson gave us the story, while he ate slowly and carefully, keeping his ravenoushunger in check.
In a moment the prey was torn to bits by the ravenous monsters.
They were taken by surprise completely, and the dog, now really ravenous from hunger, had seized and was fiercely tearing one to pieces before we could approach the spot.
It is followed by numbers of greatravenous fish, who devour quantities of the herrings, while above hover birds, as you have just seen, ready to pounce down on stragglers near the top.
No otherwise than when the ravenous bird of Jupiter, with crooked talons, has placed a hare in his lofty nest; there is no escape for the captive; the plunderer keeps his eye on his prey.
No wine is meliorated to a greater degree by keeping than Madeira, and you latterly appeared so ravenous for it, that I must conceive you wish to have a stock.
The air gives health, spirits and a ravenous appetite.
While the old voyageur unharnessed his ravenous dogs and fed them, the boys looked about them.
It shared the fate of the dead leader, the ravenous pack leaving absolutely nothing of its remains.
Unluckily, we had to camp for one night in this region; but we partly evaded the ravenous things by banking up our tent walls with earth, and then, before turning in, sweeping and smoking out such as had got inside.
One egg apiece was hardly enough, however, to appease the craving of two strong men ravenous from long fasting.
This animal is a great coward usually, but hunger had made these so ravenous that they would come boldly up to the column, and as quick as a buffalo was killed, or even disabled, they would fall upon the carcass and eagerly devour it.
But there was no fox waiting to tear her with ravenous jaws.
But when it came, it came as hard on her--a ravenous hunger, a feverish headache, and a wasting weakness.
