Some were instructed by Hag Zogbaum to affect deaf and dumb, to plead the starving condition of our parents, to, in a word, enlist the sympathies of the credulous with an hundred different stories.
To-morrow she will feed with the rich crumbs that fall from her table the starving poor.
The faithless dove found the nest open, and his gentle hand scattered for her the crumbs of his lost happiness, as the starving man divides his last crust with those who are poorer still.
If you were poor and miserable, starving by the wayside, I would raise you and bear you proudly in my arms into my house.
An impressive and touching tableau now introduced a new period, the gathering of manna in the wilderness, which refreshed the starving children of Israel.
Now I have not even a crumb for my starving heart, and yet I live.
The poor nag was yet full weary, and stumbled and drooped her head, while János’s white-faced bay might have stood for the very image of starving antiquity.
Yet we must ask ourselves what possible motive Mary Squires could have had in keeping a girl shut up in a loft for four weeks, apparently with a view of starving her to death?
To be sure, the biscuits were half soaked with sea water, but even so they tasted quite nice to a starving girl.
That munch of black bread was good enough to keep a fellow from starving to death; but I certainly do hope there's a better prospect ahead of us for supper.
Do I have to come down to choosing between eating jumpers and starving to death?
Or was there some place where starving men went to die?
Only realize it--right at this very moment there are people starvingto death--and here in Lockmanville!
But all these thousands of men who are starving to death--they ought to be told it, too.
And how can you be silent, doctor--how can the shepherd of Christ be silent while some of his flock are living in luxury and others are starving to death?
Or will you start out on thatstarving scheme again?
There are thousands of people starving here in Lockmanville; and would you want to starve without knowing the reason?
But there was nothing at all but this low starving to death--and while other people lived in plenty.
If an examiner sets a paper in Roman Law, containing long Latin extracts to be translated, he is starving the examination in Law by substituting for it an examination in Latin.
In less than two weeks this starving man of skin and bones was relieved of all symptoms of disease, and there seemed a moderate desire for food of the nourishing kind.
It is usually found that work can be done more easily, and that strength actually increases, although the starving may have to be kept up for several days.
He lived because he knew that starving to death was his remotest danger; he lived also because he was made to see evidences that a cure was evolving in many ways.
As a means this method is available to all, and practical where due physiological light will enable it to be carried out with no starving concern to disable vital power.
Hordes of people were literally starving to death, in wretched hovels, in the streets, and at the very gates of the palace.
Applications for food were made by some starvingpaupers to the Relieving Officers of different workhouses, but the hearts of those worthy individuals were found to be completely frozen.
By starving these territories, it appeared, they gained two advantages.
Appeals were made to us to do for Poland and Serbia what we did for Belgium: to admit food for the starving natives and of course also contribute to the food-fund ourselves.
We are said to be "starving the women and children of Germany.
While resting there, a courier came from the commands of General Kearney and Colonel Doniphan, stating that their men were in a starving condition, and asking for such provisions as could be spared.
Yet he was certainly a very accurate scholar; and he showed a proper manly spirit when he boxed Poggio's ears in the Theatre of Pompey for reminding him of the cleverness expected from 'a starving Greek.
But now they lie groaning in their cells, and of this they ever complain, that an idle and a greedy man is overflowing with the wealth that might have sustained a multitude of starving scholars.
What a question for the endowed and established to put to a poor starving devil of a curate like me!
I saw on a placard in the news shop that one of them had been taken to a hospital in a starving condition.
I don't think any of the landlords are actually starving yet, though I've no doubt many of them are put to very great straits indeed by their inability to get in their rents.
Thine the broken bread; Let the naked feet be shod, And the starving fed.
Be faithful to both worlds; nor think to feed Earth's starving millions with the husks of creed.
We starving captives of the Pale--we did as do the hungry brutes.
When your machinery ceases to move, and your operatives are turned out, will you tax your broken capitalist or your starving operative?
England and France would not allow our great staple to be dammed up within our present limits; the starving thousands in their midst would not allow it.
It had become worse lately; he had difficulty in putting her from his mind; he imagined Emmy in conjunction with the bakery, of her slowly starving and the thousands of loaves he produced in a day.
The latter had a surprising power to disturb him; lately he had even dreamed of her starving to death in the presence of abundant food.
In this splendid state, at the head of a great body of troops escorting provisions of all kinds for the starving inhabitants of Orleans, she appeared before that beleaguered city.
It was time for them to assist themselves, and to take the best they could get; for when men werestarving they could not afford to be dainty.
He sent a herald to know if the citizens had eaten all their horses yet; a question which was answered by an ostentatious display of sixtystarving hacks--all that could be mustered-upon the heights.
There was a hungry look in his face, so it seemed to the nurse, as of one starving in the midst of plenty.
He had heard of men and women starving to death in the streets of New York, and he found himself inquiring if that were to be his fate.
Just work itself is bliss when a man's been starving for it.
No wonder, then, that Franklin's men, starving as well as sick, should have died by the way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
