1 "I'm hungry, sir," said Jurgis.
2 "You must be hungry," she said, after a minute or two.
3 It was amazing what quantities of food such as this were needed every day, by eleven hungry persons.
4 Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse.
5 For another ten days he roamed the streets and alleys of the huge city, sick and hungry, begging for any work.
6 It was late afternoon then, and he was hungry, but the dinner invitations hung out of the saloons were not for him.
7 He went and took his stand with the mob of hungry wretches who were standing about in the snow before the time station.
8 They were all of them too hungry to talk; but afterward they sat upon the steps and smoked, and the farmer questioned his guest.
9 He was so hungry this time that he could not resist the hot beef stew, an indulgence which cut short his stay by a considerable time.
10 They were hot and stiff as boards on top, and a little damp on the underside, when he awakened; but being hungry, he put them on and set out again.
11 There was no time during the festivities which ensued when there were not groups of onlookers in the doorways and the corners; and if any one of these onlookers came sufficiently close, or looked sufficiently hungry, a chair was offered him, and he was invited to the feast.
12 If one of them be a minute late, he will be docked an hour's pay, and if he be many minutes late, he will be apt to find his brass check turned to the wall, which will send him out to join the hungry mob that waits every morning at the gates of the packing houses, from six o'clock until nearly half-past eight.
13 It was one of the laws of the veselija that no one goes hungry; and, while a rule made in the forests of Lithuania is hard to apply in the stockyards district of Chicago, with its quarter of a million inhabitants, still they did their best, and the children who ran in from the street, and even the dogs, went out again happier.