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1  Little Juozapas, who was near crazy with hunger these days, had gone out on the street to beg for himself.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  Here in this city to-night ten thousand women are shut up in foul pens, and driven by hunger to sell their bodies to live.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
3  The next day, however, when no harm came of it and Juozapas began to cry with hunger, she gave in and said that he might go again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  They were so numbed that they did not even suffer much from hunger, now; only the children continued to fret when the food ran short.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
5  If there were more of them on hand than chanced to be needed, the weaker ones died off of cold and hunger, again according to the stern system of nature.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
6  Perhaps he ought to have meditated upon the hunger of the children, and upon his own baseness; but he thought only of Ona, he gave himself up again to the luxury of grief.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
7  So long he had hungered to possess her, but now that the time had come he knew that he had not earned the right; that she trusted him so was all her own simple goodness, and no virtue of his.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
8  He stretched out his arms to her, he called her in wild despair; a fearful yearning surged up in him, hunger for her that was agony, desire that was a new being born within him, tearing his heartstrings, torturing him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
9  But later on, what with sickness and cold and hunger and discouragement, and the filthiness of his work, and the vermin in his home, he had given up washing in winter, and in summer only as much of him as would go into a basin.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
10  It would be a long time before he could be like the majority of these men of the road, who roamed until the hunger for drink and for women mastered them, and then went to work with a purpose in mind, and stopped when they had the price of a spree.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22