"Empty-bellied" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been turned out of work, packed in cattle-trucks, and had come down in sun by day and icy wind by night, empty-bellied, to pack off home again. Faster than the ship-loads could steam out the trainloads steamed in. They choked the lodging-houses, the bars, the streets. Capetown was one huge demonstration of the unemployed. In the hotels and streets wandered the pale, ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens |
