belly-pinched

Updated: May 26, 2025

We had hoped our servants might find us during the evening and bring us something to eat; but the advance over hills and intrenchments had made it hard to follow our course even in daylight; but in the darkness and storm they entirely failed to find us. We felt a good deal like "belly-pinched wolves," but we had no den in which we could "keep the fur dry."

Jacob Dolson Cox - Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 : November 1863-June 1865

'Wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion, and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry' into which he turns his royal patient 'unbonneted.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

If, after all this labor, after exposing their lives and limbs in storms, wet and cold, ``Wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their furs dry,

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

"Wherein the cub-drawn bear would crouch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their furs dry." Nevertheless, I noticed that each of the few convoys of laden mules which we met, had one or more of the guardia cicia accompanying it.

Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

Plenty to eat and drink yes, but milk does not taste the same when you can go and drink all you want from a saucer; it has to be stolen out of a tin pail when you are belly-pinched with hunger and thirst, or it does not have the tang it isn't milk. Yes, there was a junk-yard back of the house and beside it and around it too, a big one, but it was everywhere poisoned and polluted with roses.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Animal Heroes

If, after all this labor after exposing their lives and limbs in storms, wet and cold, "Wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch; The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry; "

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast