At 7.5% vol., this was first brewed in 1898 as a nourishing brew for long hungry winters.

In those days a wet spring would inevitably mean a hungry winter.

Unless the fire was extinguished quickly, it would be a lean, hungry winter.

A fine that would build a manor house-or feed fifty villages through a hungry winter!

The last winter was what they called the hungry winter.

Harl's mother had died in the last hungry winter and his father seemed to care nothing of the boy.

They had too many hungry winters to remember.

That was one of the smaller ifs Caudell had heard through the long, hungry winter.

That had been the hungriest winter of his life.

"I am afraid we are in for a hungry winter," said Mr. Ponomarev.