They had 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.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference

He who had once tramped the pavements of the capital as a vagabond, unwashed and empty-bellied, had now assumed the powers of the once mighty Austrian Hapsburg emperors, as in Germany he had taken over those of the Hohenzollern kaisers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler]

Sir PETER, with a very proper admiration of the pleasures of life, philosophises with a full stomach on the ignorance and wickedness of empty-bellied humanity; and Mr. HOBLER -- albeit in the present case the word is not reported -- doubtless cried "Amen!" to the wisdom of the alderman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference

There would be no use to fill the cans at present or start the conveyer to carry the empty-bellied fish to the cannery floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Diablo] Reference

But page on page of such facts as that both Shakespeare and Sophocles talk, one of "the belly - pinched wolf," the other of "the empty-bellied wolf," are apt to impress the reader -- and verily both Shakespeare and AEschylus talk of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference

There was the time of the Great Famine, when the old men crouched empty-bellied to the fire, and from their lips fell dim traditions of the ancient day when the Yukon ran wide open for three winters, and then lay frozen for three summers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Law of Life] Reference

There was the time of the Great Famine, when the old men crouched empty-bellied to the fire, and let fall from their lips dim traditions of the ancient day when the Yukon ran wide open for three winters, and then lay frozen for three summers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Law of Life] Reference

What would the Americans’ “empty-bellied” allies think, he wondered bitterly, in the face of this excess?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storyteller] Reference

'He is high-minded but empty-bellied.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference