From-hunger Sentence Examples

Did they die here – from hunger?

The Bechuanas and all Kaffir tribes believe that death, even at an advanced age, if not from hunger or violence, is due to witchcraft, and blood is required to expiate or avenge it.

Without it life would be impossible, and it is well recognized that death from thirst is more awful than death from hunger.

The corpse of Louis XIV., left to servants for disposal, and saluted all along the road to Saint Denis by the curses of a noisy crowd sitting in the cabarets, celebrating his death by drinking more than their fill as a compensation for having suffered too much from hunger during his lifetimesuch was the coarse but sincere epitaph which popular opinion placed on the tomb of the Grand Monarque.

Did they die here – from hunger?

Hundreds of thousands have died from hunger or the cholera and typhoid epidemics which have swept the country.

He grew weak from hunger and thirst.

The Pavlograd regiment had had only two men wounded in action, but had lost nearly half its men from hunger and sickness.

Isolated in such blocks the selected prisoner perished either from hunger or from an injection of phenol or were suffocated by gas.

I am in his office the next day at 8 pm sharp, weak from hunger.

Back in the 1970's, Dr. Siegal envisioned his cookie-based diet as an answer for patients he saw who suffered from hunger while dieting.