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Their movement had hungered for this moment for years, but now, after Oct.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024

They had hungered and been ragged and lived with the wolf at the door.

From Time • Oct. 25, 2012

Audrey knew then that for one moment the love she had hungered and thirsted after, more than after righteousness, had been actually within her grasp, and that she had lost it.

From Audrey Craven by Sinclair, May

Our shelter tents were left standing, and our blankets in them, but the men had hungered and thirsted too much within the last six months to leave haversacks and canteens.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus

She could not speak, so intense was her surprise, and the voice for whose sound she had hungered and thirsted with her whole foolish, romantic heart sounded in the silence: "Norine!"

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes