Meanings of famished wolf in English

Black Donald seized them as a famished wolf might seize his prey.

Here Garland now hid, ate like a famished wolf, and slept.

They looked like the eyes of a famished wolf.

The free lunch had come and I was falling upon it like a famished wolf.

The man was gaunt as a famished wolf.

I grew as hungry as a famished wolf.

Her husband had taken his hands from his face, and glared at her like a famished wolf.

I awoke as hungry as a famished wolf, and saw nothing but a dense forest on every side.

Like a famished wolf he began on the coarse fare, and for ten minutes hardly lifted his head.

They piled his plate and filled his coffee cup again and again and watched him while he ate like a famished wolf.

From this ravenous propensity, for he eat his food like a famished wolf, he had obtained his singular name of "Wittals."

The eyes of the poor man glittered as he gazed eagerly at the food, which he ate with the avidity of a half- famished wolf.

He pushed away his plate and sat staring at his stepbrother, who presently fell to at the bacon and eggs like a famished wolf.

But I was in no mood to criticise; I crammed myself, I believe, like some famished wolf, he watching me, in silence, all the time.

Away from the actual presence of his idol it gnawed him like a famished wolf, and his mind tormented itself with fantastic and dreadful possibilities.

Famished wolves dogged his steps, but he outran them on his snow-shoes.