Example Sentences

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This is kept up, if the crop only lasts long enough until they have made themselves thoroughly sick by their hoggishness.

From Schwatka's Search by Gilder, William H. (William Henry)

There may be some selfish brutes left with a good deal of hoggishness in their nature!

From The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by Spargo, John

The conversation had at any cost to be changed, and Martin was pleased when the general attention was directed to the colossal hoggishness of Flannery, who was mixing jam, sardines, and potted meat.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

It was pure, cussed hoggishness, for there was more land than anybody had any use for, but they must grab everything in sight, no matter what the cost.

From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.

Trade and shipping, and clubs and culture, and prestige, and guns, and a fine select class of gentry and aristocracy, with every modern improvement, cannot begin to salve or defend such stupendous hoggishness.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt