Sentence examples for crying for bread from inspiring English sources
Germans were running along the train crying for bread.
"While many of our families, our poor wives and children, are at home crying for bread … their husbands and fathers are out upon the field battling in defence of the Union, without receiving a cent of pay".
The "scores of women and children crying for bread, whose husbands, Sons and fathers are in the army today" should create an obligation on the government to "prevent suffering" for the "infirm and the helpless," which "justice, humanity, and every principle of Christianity forbids".
One woman remembered seeing "The road from Independence to Lexington... crowded with women and children, women walking with their babies in their arms, packs on their backs, and four or five children following after them — some crying for bread, some crying to be taken back to their homes".
One observer saw "secesh women and children, and the few men with them fleeing from the wrath to come," while an officer recalled "the road from Independence to Lexington was crowded with women and children, women walking with their babies in their arms … and four or five children following after them — some crying for bread, some crying to be taken back to their homes".
"We cried out for bread and you gave us stones".
Both eggplant dishes cried out for bread; order lepeshka ($3), a big rectangle of puffy tandoori bread.
She recalls crying for hours.
