It is appropriate that he should be the one with the empty belly addressing his friend.
It comes down to scars and empty bellies in the end.
But often enough there were days when they had no success and lay down with empty bellies.
What would a child understand other than an empty belly?
Even if we do, you won't run far on an empty belly.
Why should there be one empty belly in all the world, when the work of ten men can feed a hundred?
But it's better than an empty belly, which is what most of them had before we happened along here.
I was just doing what any fox with an empty belly would do, seeing a free meal.
An empty belly is a bitter thing, although you speak so lightly of it.
I went in through the back door with an uneasy heart and an empty belly.