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单词 foodless
例句 foodless
“Must not, or you’d have them with you and I would be foodless.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
An often-quoted estimate is that we are just four foodless days away from anarchy, and a few days of electricity blackout away from widespread looting. Floods: a disaster waiting to happen 2013-02-02T09:00:26Z
That frontier consisted of the foodless deserts and inaccessible hills of Afghanistan. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z
He had told the things that he had seen as he passed from house to house, hard, sad facts, the outcome of rising numbers and falling wages, of over-production, of mouths foodless and unwanted. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z
Again she was forced into some awkward and painful attitude, bound with cords, and kept foodless and sleepless for four-and-twenty hours. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z
For the thought of his possibly lying there alone and foodless had not been a pleasant one, good reason as he had for disliking the man. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z
Pomet17 thought that gall-nuts were the fruit of the oak, and a similar opinion obtains among the modern Chinese, who apply to them the term Mu-shih-tsze, or “fruits for the foodless.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z
Penniless, and his crew foodless, Garibaldi steered his vessel up the Tyne. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z
He described the fireless homes, the foodless children, the strong men hopeless. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z
"It was foodless and useless," said Marion Nestle, a New York University nutritionist. At USDA, a plate replaces the food pyramid 2011-06-03T02:48:15Z
It was almost dark," says Outram, "when we approached the well remembered cliff, which had been continually on our minds, and to reach which before nightfall had been the object of our hasty, foodless march. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z
Why is he alone, dogless, foodless, weaponless, here in these Dead Lands! The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z
Another foodless day and you’d have been eating sandwiches off my little mound of earth.” The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z
A worn-out horse under him, foodless, waterless, in the midst of an apparently interminable desert, he has every excuse for beginning to feel excessively concerned. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt
Some poor women brought forth children in the streets, and there they would lie, mother and child, naked and foodless, until death came as a happy release from their misery. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892
Unarmed and foodless, how shall he ever succeed in finding his way back to safety? Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion
Ragged foodless marauders, they swarmed through the resort villages in vicious bands, plundering and murdering in futile efforts to stave off starvation and death. Deepfreeze
The pure-minded peasant girl seeks remission of sins, the foodless peasant a liberty to eat what the expenses of this pilgrimage will perhaps deprive him of the means of obtaining. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine
But there are un-English parents, tens of thousands of them, who, for “a drink,” pawn their baby’s only garment and leave it foodless in a fireless room. Some Conditions of Child Life in England
When the foodless days came and the child was not getting food enough to survive, she gave vent to her feelings of despair. My Lady of the Chimney Corner
The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The Age of Pope (1700-1744)
Game seemed to have vanished, and Christmas found the party plodding wearily onward, foodless, moving farther each day from the little outpost of civilization that lay behind them on the bleak shores of Hudson Bay. Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas
I was surprised to find I could go foodless for several days and still have strength to plod ahead and maintain my interest in the scenery. A Mountain Boyhood
"It isn't fair, all the same; you don't play the game," and as my mother had already gone into the dining-room to sit rebukefully at a foodless table I followed her. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate
Your capitalist class draw upon this excluded horde of landless, toolless, foodless lack-alls, and do actually find work for as many as they can employ at a profit to themselves. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals
Triffitt, in fact, went almost foodless and sleepless; there was so much to do. The Herapath Property
And next day the papers told a romantic story; the stowaway had crept into the train at Vienna, and, foodless, had hid until he arrived in Rotterdam. A Dominie in Doubt
The last day of the year dawned and I spent it foodless, friendless, solitary. A Tramp's Notebook
They were some of the wives and offspring of his fighting men, and were in most cases foodless, friendless, dependent for their daily bread on British bounty. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
For 24 hours I had been foodless, and was now quite exhausted. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
No more through air the gay birds flit, But, foodless, melancholy sit Together on the branch and call To thee whose kind heart feels for all.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
She felt like a queen, travelling in state through a waterless, foodless world. There was a King in Egypt
"Ha ha!" said Richard again and banged the dish cover against the table implements of a foodless tray that had marked the hour of a meal time. Men of Affairs
I could not afford an Admiralty or Chancery suit in England, while my barracoons were foodless in Africa. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
The journey was no more than fifteen miles, but took them across grassy, foodless plains which had never been worth negotiation. The Devil's Asteroid
True, the desert is vast and scorching and almost waterless—I may as well say foodless too! Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
The Turks had gone out of their way to destroy many of the houses, with the result that hundreds of people were wandering about, foodless, homeless, and utterly friendless. With Our Army in Palestine
Note the beauty of the epithet "brown," where all that is motionless is white— "The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants." Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
The heart-sick people left the doors, and were about to disperse to their foodless homes, when a loud cry of hope and gladness came from the lookout in the tower above their heads. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
Small groups of British had dug themselves in among the Germans and, waterless, foodless, held out, conserving their ammunition or, when it was gone, waiting for the last effort with the bayonet. My Second Year of the War
In a moment; all these surely are dead, beyond our aid, and yet we must not depart foodless. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War
That night we camped, fireless and foodless, on the banks of a swift-flowing stream in a valley between two great mountains. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady
Those cows could never have drawn heavy carts and lain exhausted and foodless after a heavy day's work. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia
The one who goes forth in the morning prayerless is just as ill-equipped to do his duty, and meet his temptations, as the foodless man is to perform physical work. The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent
The foodless wilds       Pour forth their brown inhabitants. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
The foodless wilds    Pour forth their brown inhabitants. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader
If they proceed for penalties in individual cases, they must be immense, as the killed and wounded are beyond calculation,—not to mention all that the process has left homeless, foodless, and destitute. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841
The presentments allowed would thus give about ten shillings' worth, of employment for each individual, with nine or ten foodless months before them. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
He knew well enough the window in question; he had leapt himself upon the sill once and again and seen the foodless waste of floor and carpet and furniture within. The Necromancers
"Now, if I have half as much ingenuity as I sometimes think I have, I believe I can cut short their stay here by rendering that cheap crowd homeless—-and foodless!" The High School Boys' Canoe Club
When at last he had finished Bonaventure de Lapp's lids were drooping over his eyes, for I doubt that he had been sleepless as well as foodless for these three days. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
In order to erect a new forest, he devastated thirty miles of farming country, and drove the people, homeless and foodless, to the swamps. Comic History of England
Bert tramped through a country disorganised by pestilence, foodless, and shaken to the very base of its immemorial order. The War in the Air
So we lay till the twilight, foodless and without water, for we had vowed a vow neither to eat nor to drink till we had accomplished the matter. Traffics and Discoveries
From want of sleep?—or merely from the daily fatigue of that long walk, foodless, to Whinthorpe for early Mass? Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
For stript of health, benumb'd thy vital flood, Thy muscles lax'd and decomposed thy blood, What is thy courage, man? a foodless flame, A light unseen, a soul without a frame. The Columbiad
Fireless, foodless and without shelter, unprotected in every way, possessing nothing now save just their own bodies and the draggled garments that they wore, they lay and slept. Darkness and Dawn
Such rage of hunger Caleb had never seen, and it was painful to him to think of what the dog had endured during those days when it had been roaming foodless about the neighbourhood. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
Berries all gone, ground hard and foodless, streams frozen, snow lying for weeks, frost stealing away the vital heat—ingenuity could not devise a more terrible scene of torture to the birds. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
They had come across some natives whom Kennedy was inclined to trust, but of whom Jacky was suspicious, and that night they camped in the scrub, foodless and fireless. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
Lonely garrets have seemed richly furnished because of my face, and men with foodless lips have died blest because I was near them at the last. The Worshipper of the Image
The foodless wilds   Pour forth their brown inhabitants. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century
Here they remained all night, foodless and well-nigh frozen, and in the morning, finding the ice set, crossed in safety to the shore. A Soldier of Virginia
Our warriors struck his trail by chance, and found His tent close by the Wabash, where he lay With sprained ankle, foodless and alone. Tecumseh : a Drama
If I cry out the Cry of the Captured, my Kinsfolk will be terrified, and they will fly away foodless. The Art of the Story-Teller
In a few words the girl poured out the tale of her mother’s sickness, and then with less glibness, and with reddened cheeks, of her moneyless and foodless condition. Janice Meredith
So there we sat, foodless and frightened, wondering what our old friend Kou-en would say if he could see us now. Ayesha, the Return of She
If we could not get a boat we must remain in that foodless forest until we starved. Allan and the Holy Flower
Nevertheless, there stood the notice in black and white, a clear and unequivocal warning from the Canadian authorities, evidently designed to forestall famine on the foodless Yukon. The Winds of Chance
And duty still detained him, to arrange about destroyed fences and foodless stock—duty that had to be considered first, even before her. Sisters
At last he even neglected to ask for a crust, and, foodless, followed the beckoning vision, from sunrise to sundown. The Untilled Field
Our fears relieved—for notwithstanding our foodless night, as yet neither of us showed any signs of exhaustion—we turned to contemplate the landscape. Ayesha, the Return of She
Here he will camp, fireless, foodless, and walk up and down the livelong night, for sleep might be death. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
By thine eyes - Turned stormier now than stars in bare-blown skies Wherethrough the wind rings menace,—I will swear Nought: so shall fear, mistrust, and jealous hate Lie foodless, if not fangless. Locrine: a tragedy
Moreover, it was no use giving in, foodless as we were, for Mar�t had carried the provisions, and with the chance of Jana returning to look us up. The Ivory Child
There was an embarrassing silence as Ross and I thought solemnly of a foodless week. Waifs and Strays Part 1
Then they fled, houseless and foodless, down the valley, as their village, shredded and tossed and trampled, melted behind them. The Second Jungle Book
For if that soil grow sterile, then the whole Of me must shrivel, from the topmost shoot Of climbing poesy, and my life, killed through, Dry down and perish to the foodless root. Poems
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