land-hunger

Always had her race been land-hungry, and she took delight in believing she had bred true; for had not she, despite her life passed in a city, found this same land-hunger in her?

CHAPTER XIX 2010

Years of freighting and mining had followed, and, with a stake gleaned from the Merced placers, he satisfied the land-hunger of his race and time by settling in Sonoma County.

LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

The land-hunger, or rather land-greed, of the small proprietors in her neighborhood had, it is true, given her a certain disgust for these contested possessions.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

The Russian people have just gotten a taste of liberty and are as crazy as was the man with the land-hunger.

Birdseye Views of Far Lands

The Bolshevik government of Russia is credited by many of its admirers in this country with having solved the great land problem and with having satisfied the land-hunger of the peasants.

Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

With individual as with corporation, with explorer as with landlord, land-hunger was the master impulse of the era.

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

With individual as with corporation, with explorer as with landlord, land-hunger was the master impulse of the era.

The conquest of the old Southwest 1920

Years of freighting and mining had followed, and, with a stake gleaned from the Merced placers, he satisfied the land-hunger of his race and time by settling in Sonoma County.

Like Argus of the Ancient Times 1918

Always had her race been land-hungry, and she took delight in believing she had bred true; for had not she, despite her life passed in a city, found this same land-hunger in her?

Chapter 19 1913

Fintan Lalor's policy, rejected by the Young Irelanders in 1846, was beginning to take hold in 1868; the movement for self-government was becoming linked on to the driving force of land-hunger.

Irish Books and Irish People Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907