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Hungerly   Listen
adverb
Hungerly  adv.  With keen appetite. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hungerly" Quotes from Famous Books



... wine, and drank a loud health to the company, and threw a sop which was at the bottom of the glass full in the sexton's face, giving no other reason for this strange act, than that the sexton's beard grew thin and hungerly, and seemed to ask the sop as he was drinking. Never sure was there such a mad marriage; but Petruchio did but put this wildness on, the better to succeed in the plot he had formed to tame ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

... as if he had beene aboord carowsing to his Mates after a storme, quaft off the Muscadell, and threw the sops all in the Sextons face: hauing no other reason, but that his beard grew thinne and hungerly, and seem'd to aske him sops as hee was drinking: This done, hee tooke the Bride about the necke, and kist her lips with such a clamorous smacke, that at the parting all the Church did eccho: and ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare



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