And day by day as the hunger cancer gnawed at Garrison's vitals it encroached on his original stock of honesty.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
But when there is the hunger cancer gnawing at one's vitals, not for one day, but for many, then honesty and dishonesty cease to be concrete realities.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
Edmund, the father of this John, was the voracious leech, with Empson, who sucked the vitals of the people, to feed the avarice of Henry the Seventh.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton