Crossword-Solution: DINNERLESS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

All the room was full of the sense of waiting, waiting for the man who was sitting in his pit-dirt, dinnerless, some mile away from home, across the darkness, drinking himself drunk.

Marston would not come in that night and the Blight went dinnerless to bed and cried herself to sleep.

There were, instead, half-smiles, tears, sobs, a tremulous telling of Pete's going and his messages, followed by a tearful listening to Bertram's story of the torture he had endured at the hands of Miss Winthrop, Bessie Bailey, and an empty, dinnerless house.

The good man became very melancholy, and said he had some misgivings that we should have to depart dinnerless.

The fragrance of the good cheer steamed forth into the outer air, and the youth could not fail to recollect that the last remnant of his travelling stock of provision had yielded to his morning appetite, and that noon had found and left him dinnerless.