The long privation of books has quite restored all my appetite for them.

There was something almost boyish in his face, a little hollowed by long privation.

The long privation which the travellers had suffered gave uncommon ardor to their present hunting.

There was true madness in that look, arising from the long privation, the interminable jealousy, the consequent monomania of revenge.

Their faces, though it was winter-time, were brown with the sun, and thin and drawn as with long privation and anxiety.

He was a fine athlete, well educated in the duties of a soldier, and could endure long privation of sleep and food.

The long privation of this colony of judicial protection, not only hindered the due administration of justice, but encouraged imprudence and fraud.

Tigers very rarely attack boats by swimming to them; and never but when their ferocity is heightened by a long privation of food.

It was during his stay in the islands that the survivors of the wrecked vessel, the Hornet, came in, after long privation at sea.

Only those can endure whose nerves lack sensitiveness and who are able to bear long privation and the strain of hunger and cold and darkness.

People began to recover from the long privations of the winter.

The men were dirty in the service of war, and haggard after long privations in the field.

Cruel diseases attacked the unhappy French; who being exhausted by long privations, these terrible maladies spread with dreadful rapidity.

A considerable store of provisions was found both at Gizeh and at Embabeh, and the soldiers could make amends for their long privations.

"Do not their efforts in this sacred cause-theirpatient sufferings-theirlong privations-speak loudly in their behalf?"