long-unsatisfied

Updated: May 13, 2025

And, peering out, it had beheld a spindling child; a human atom, without strength or weapon. Fear changed to fury in the bob-cat's feline heart. Here was no opponent; but a mere item of prey. And, with fury, stirred long-unsatisfied hunger; the famine hunger of mid-winter which makes the folk of the wilderness risk capture or death by raiding guarded hencoops.

Albert Payson Terhune - Further Adventures of Lad