Poor and hungry peasants would eat dormice during winter because it is a good protein source.
These four characters are deities that disguise themselves as hungry, injured peasants.
The Civil Guard and armed retainers employed by the big landowners maintained a brutal vigilance over the estates against pilfering by hungry peasants.
He has scant motive for traipsing abroad among the faminelands listening to the wails of hungry peasants or the mutterings of mutinous vassals.
Masses of hungry peasants roamed the countryside looking for work and would sometimes walk hundreds of miles to find it.
A peasant; a hungry peasant; how odd!
Millions of hungry peasants are fleeing to the cities.
He was aware that a hungry peasant tended to gulp good food, fearing it would vanish.
By today, 51,000 men were crammed onto the terraced site that served as a feeding center for hungry peasants in the 1985 Ethiopian famine.
In the near-famine of 1795, champions of the market economy would have had the poor starve and let mobs of hungry peasants loose on the countryside.
