The vessel was at anchor off Itea, a starveling village not at all praised by those who have been forced to sample its meagre accommodations for a night.
Toward this point the road rises steadily, and before long we had passed through a starveling village of peasant huts and came suddenly upon a two-story structure bearing the portentous sign, “Grand Hotel of Helen and Menelaus!
Scrape the cream down with a spoon as it freezes round the edges of the tin.
It never once would have struck Opdyke that he was becoming an object of idolatry to this gaunt starveling to whom, as he expressed it, he had tried to be a little decent.
You never could get a starveling like Scott Brenton out of sight of your conscience.
Growing bolder, the starveling growled; the tiger struck at him with his paw, and the dog fled howling with fear.
Invincible in her prejudice as all these Virginians, Joyce Basil has made her bed amongst the starveling First Families, and there she means to live and die.
Now, before they crossed the patch of starveling bush which skirted the foot of their particular ridge, they were approached by Black-tip and two friends of his, who were also preparing for the evening hunt.
They were sitting over the embers of a mere apology for a fire, these two forsaken cripples, with the little, starveling children cuddled together like frightened rabbits at their feet.
Grates are unknown, and a miserable stove, badly managed and half filled, is the starveling and inefficient substitute.
Her words are feathers, falling Lightly, relentlessly, and without rest, Revealing to my face Her pinched and starveling breast Like poultry, dead and unashamed And naked in the market place.
The starveling poets and dramatists of Bohemia fell upon lean years, in which the weaker and more utterly destitute were destroyed by their privations, like Elisa Mercoeur and Hégésippe Moreau.
Their end in Art was in such forms as thisstarveling creature of Callot's (Fig.
The contrast between the starveling saints of the early Church and the well-fed friars of later times was a frequent subject of caricature, as in the accompanying example (Fig.
All the dried starveling Anthonys and Benedicts are, in a cultured way, present in the theologian and scholar Faust; all the sweet ladies that haunted their seclusion became realistic in Gretchen.
There were rocks, and rocky knolls, as about Grasmere and Wytheburn, and copses, but of a starveling growth; the cultivated ground poor.
It is my belief," he said, "that the pretty fellow yonder is some starveling play-actor without a brass farthing to bless himself with.
The parvenu journalist will be succeeded by the starveling hack.
In those days the Quality were very rich in their deaths; and, for my part, I dissent from the starveling and nipcheese performances of modern funerals.
The forms[32] of Caravaggio are either substantial flesh or the starveling produce of beggary rendered important by ideal light and shade.
The forms of Albert Durer are blasphemies on Nature, the thwarted growth of starveling labour and dry sterility--formed to inherit his hell of paradise.
The woman answered: "That would be too much for a starveling like you; would you not like other meat?
They had with them some wretched starvelingdogs which assist them in the chase.
Both of them would finish broken down, and their children in their turn would unconsciously perpetuate the swarming and accursed starveling race.
Though so much extolled and so ambitiously imitated, his banditti are a medley made up of starveling models, shreds and bits of armour from his lumber-room, brushed into notice by a daring pencil.
Can there be any thing more disgusting to an eye accustomed to harmony of frame, than the starveling forms of Albert Durer, unless it be the swampy excrescences of Rembrandt?
Starveling the Tailor keeps the peace, and objects to the lion and the drawn sword.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starveling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
