earth-hunger

A policy of territorial expansion as such, mere earth-hunger, cannot be proved against him.

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

A policy of territorial expansion as such, mere earth-hunger, cannot be proved against him.

William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

He looked on stoically, moved only by the elemental passion – earth-hunger, the desire of a man for the land of his forebears.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

On the other hand, there nearly always came a moment when Conservative approval passed into the opposite, for Sir Charles had no sympathy with the vast if rather confused ideas of general annexation which prevailed in Conservative circles: the policy of mere earth-hunger which Mr. Gladstone had denounced in 1893.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

This kind of earth-hunger is, I believe, not common among English people to-day; if it were, the tide of life would not set so steadily townward as it does.

The Quest of the Simple Life Dawson, William J 1907

But when the day of large farms came, the small landowners were crushed out; and as for the mere peasant, he has no chance at all of ever owning land, and never has had; so that he has every inducement to crowd into towns where wages are nominally higher, and he soon outgrows that natural earth-hunger which modern civilisation affords him no means of gratifying.

The Quest of the Simple Life Dawson, William J 1907

If my earth-hunger did not die in London, it was mainly because my holidays were of a very different description.

The Quest of the Simple Life Dawson, William J 1907

Victoria was as unbounded as our own earth-hunger.

A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899

So long as we live, breathe, and have our being, so long will the strong oppress and slay the weak; so long will the accursed earth-hunger of

Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884

I have the noble earth-hunger; I must get upon the land.

The Lady of the Aroostook William Dean Howells 1878