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  • noun Plural form of hungerer.

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  • We are winng, Terrists losing, World betterer now that we spread democratizating things to freedom hungerers.

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  • It seemed, indeed, as if the savages had been driven to increased rage by the discovery of his presence; and that the hope of capturing _him_, the most daring and inveterate of all the hungerers after Indian horseflesh, and requiting his manifold transgressions on the spot, had infused into them new spirit and fiercer determination.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • Communion wherein he has raised his voice against the barbaric survival of war and condemned it in the name of his Saviour Jesus, who spoke of the meek, the mourners, the merciful, the pure in heart, the hungerers and thirsters after righteousness, or, as we say, the ethical enthusiasts, as his followers?

    Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

  • He was therefore unscrupulous, unprincipled, as hungerers after power for itself too often are; yet still if he got power he would probably use it well, from the clearness and strength of his mental perceptions.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • He was therefore unscrupulous, unprincipled, as hungerers after power for itself too often are; yet still if he got power he would probably use it well, from the clearness and strength of his mental perceptions.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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