Saxon had started him by speaking of the land-hungry Anglo-Saxons.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XI] Reference

Kansas, and what is now Oklahoma, was worked out, and the land-hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

All three have been populated by land-hungry Judeo-Christian Europeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Bubble: At Home in the Israeli Settler State] Reference

Population pressure pushed land-hungry immigrants to seek available fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Urgency was a consideration because land-hungry peoples 'needs had to be addressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She turned against the land-hungry colonists, and banded together with King Philip.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

Zimbabwe, where land-hungry protesters have invaded more than 1000 commercial farms.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I draw the line at hometown boy Duane Reade, which is far too land-hungry for my tastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me and Chains] Reference

The “desert” of the Great Plains lost much of its terror, and attracted the land-hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference

A hundred years ago, a burgeoning, land-hungry population killed off the last of Germany's wolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTO THE WOODS] Reference

But the time had come when this neglected prairie was the only land left for a land-hungry people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

The BRC was aware of many land-hungry communities in the vicinity of the Guba and Queenstown land.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Wakkerstroom areas because of perceived failures on government's part in resettling the landless and land-hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Well, I asked, and the answer is hit my ear like a primer on how to survive in New York in these land-hungry days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

They came, first, for good land; and when gold was discovered the gold-hunters joined the ranks of the land-hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference

Liberation War Veterans 'Association, said the country would witness more farm invasions by land-hungry Zimbabweans.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

To imply, then, that I am a power -/money -/land-hungry tyrant is inexcusable and nothing could be further from the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups] Reference

He assured these villagers and all other land-hungry peasants that land would soon be made available for their resettlement.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"You lied to the land-hungry Zimbabweans that Britain would provide funds for the land reform programme," the petition said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

So instead of going for all-out conquest, the land-hungry Afrikaner communities often allied with one chiefdom against another.    From Wordnik.com.  [1997] Reference

Crown lands not only generated revenues for the monarch but royal estates could be sold to land-hungry elite for a quick profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

It was a fairly big house, not too new, and it sat in the middle of a lot that was bigger than normal for land-hungry Los Angeles.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Proxy] Reference

Saturday appealed to President Robert Mugabe to stop the nationwide invasion of white-owned commercial farms by land-hungry peasants.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But there are few options open to a government caught between land-hungry South Africans and its commitment to orderly, legal land reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land Grab] Reference

If Noah had sent out one from the ark he'd never have come back with any sprig of promise for the land-hungry wanderers shut up in that craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

The union demanded that state-owned farms, currently leased to their previous owners as additional land, should either be leased or sold to "land-hungry African farmers".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Then, still land-hungry, she stepped over into Sicily, invited by certain rascals in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference

Thus, it would appear that the Alpine type in its sterile areas of isolation was the land-hungry one described by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

Granger was only one tentacle of the company, one machine for extracting money from naïve, land-hungry citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plunderer] Reference

And then, as the east coast became populated, numerous hardy, dissident, and / or land-hungry souls set out westward.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Just World News' with Helena Cobban] Reference

We must become land-hungry, must acquire new regions for settlement, otherwise we will be a sinking people, a stunted race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gems (?) of German Thought] Reference

There is little change for the poor if their environment is devastated, nor can nature survive a billion land-hungry people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Siowitha people arrived on scout, land-hungry and rich; and the tiny hamlet of Wyossett grew rapidly into the town it now is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Younger Set] Reference

East had been gathered and where the wilder tribes of the Southwest were being settled, came the rush of the land-hungry pioneer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frontier in American History] Reference

Now here was a condition of affairs which was as annoying as it was intolerable to the land-hungry statesmen of Downing Street and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference

56The military presence facilitated the migration of land-hungry peasants from inland provinces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

"You lied to the land-hungry Zimbabweans that Britain would provide funds for the land reform programme.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Government threats to seize white-owned farms for the resettlement of land-hungry peasants "are hanging over the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference