| 单词 | starveling |
| 例句 | She was lean, hard muscle, where Reek was loose, grey skin and brittle bones, a white-haired starveling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In no time at all, the stiff barbs of his minuscule feathers broke through their pale blue quillskins, and Pacheco found himself feeding a greedy, plump fluffball instead of a naked starveling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of his starveling servants, of his urging Cardan to kill one of them for training, of the way he ordered Cardan beaten while professing his love for their family. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’m sure Jamison would rush out here with a box of chocolates and a featherbed if he knew there was a starveling half-cracked student living under his University. They’d crock her and you know it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And Carmel, begun by starveling writers and unwanted painters, is now a community of the well-to-do and the retired. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The man looked at them—a thin girl of ten with starveling hollows in her cheeks but with the chin still baby-round. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of the success Mr. Slimane enjoyed during his previous design stints owed to how easy it was for women to wear the stuff he intended for the scrawny starvelings he favors. Celine’s New Wave Man 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z A tourism app that evokes slums, starveling waifs, child labor, pickpockets, brutal jails and gallows might not be everyone’s idea of a good way to promote their city’s past. ArtsBeat Blog: An App to Take You Deep Into Dickens's London 2011-12-09T17:47:01Z Mr. Blunden’s starvelings had simply been unlucky, their orders to retreat either misheard or misunderstood over a partially jammed radio frequency. Review: In ‘Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge,’ Antony Beevor Is on Familiar Ground 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Broad-shouldered men with strapping muscles from digging and hauling rocks wilted into bony, hollow-cheeked starvelings. Special Report: The wildcat gold miners who get rich sick 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Are people who get that left as starvelings in some rat infested slum? The Average US Welfare Payment Puts You In The Top 20% Of All Income Earners 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z "Did you ever see such wretched little starveling girls as he puts into the bazaar at Christmas?" Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Men seated, pipe in mouth, on low walls, watched the two go by--not without some rude banter; frowsy women crouching on door-steps and nursing starveling babes raised sullen faces. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The runner hooked out a half-penny--a good fat copper coin, to the starveling bronze of these days as Daniel Lambert to a dandy. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Your halma man as you buy him in a box is ever a bit of a starveling. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Any way, one starveling is enough in any house. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Shortly after the Settlement Ball, which Yetta had watched as a starveling beggar peers through a baker's window, Life suddenly opened up. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z She was short, like most starvelings, and had a broad, clumsy figure. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Was she—the shabby old starveling—to be restored to comfort and fine clothes? The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Only that a poor little starveling found himself in a full granary one day, when a fairy bade him eat. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z But there were other pilgrims, low fellows, needy and starveling, who, paid by the Church, were walking backwards for six sols. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z They had with them some wretched starveling dogs which assist them in the chase. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z She was indeed a starveling and appeared to me to be a woman of about thirty. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Discontent and reviling of the world are for the present generation an inheritance from starveling ancestors. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Bring in a sapling of the native tree and it looks a starveling by comparison. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Dwindling and dwarfed in all save wickedness, And knowledge, oft made pander unto ill, With learning gorged, for wisdom famishing, Man both a glutton and a starveling seemed. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z They are, indeed, miserable wretches, wandering in the hills and forest without any fixed habitation, their only property a lance, a bolo, and some starveling curs. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z It was not only starveling dependents like Lippo Lippi, whose daily life compelled them to study night and day the faces and outward ways of their fellow-men. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z ‘Then I will rather feast with my ancestors in the halls of Woden, than dwell with your little starveling band of Christians in heaven.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z Rick first appeared, a starveling puppy with a large frame and weak, shambling legs, before the windows of a charitable Scotswoman, who was a lover of dogs and a person of sensibility. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z Not a thin starveling, but a sturdy workhouse baby, who had thriven and grown strong on simple oatmeal fare. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Garrick wrote the patriotic verses that went with this picture, and you may see from them how constantly Englishmen have thought the French to be a nation of lean and hungry starvelings. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z In this wet starveling plight we spent the tedious night. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z He took a miserable house without the Boulevard, in the quarter of the Batignolles, and only crept back to the neighborhood of his old princely quarters, like the vagrant starveling that he was, at dusk. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z And then, into the bargain, every snarling villein elects to be king over his own starveling crew, and there would be a king for every rood of land in England. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z I come home at night worn out and the work I do then is only a poor starveling. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Charity is a popular virtue, as you may learn at the theatre, from the tumultuous applause of the gallery whenever the hero of the melodrama chucks a purse at the head of some unfortunate starveling. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Much more would he have refused responsibility for the whole brood of unscientific and starveling "picnics," that followed Brisbane's excitations. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z The fugitive from justice, pining for the simple society of his world, listened like a starveling thing to these meagre details, so replete with interest to him, so full of life and spirit. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z He was a black cat, not very large, with a decent roundness of feature, and yet with a suggestion of sinewy skinniness about him—the Skinniness of the wastrel, not of the poor starveling. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Heed not the starveling crew, who hang Upon the blue Ohio, A craven heart each traitor bears, And dare not venture nigher. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z This proves clearly that to the mind of a German, even though he be a Sozial-Democrat, the skin of a capitalist will ever be superior to the skin of a starveling. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z You get but silence; Or, if I sing,—beshrew me, it shall be A dole of song, a little starveling breath As near to silence as a song can be. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Here we see the starveling lads during and after the "internal" application of superabundant doses of brimstone and treacle, administered by Squeers' worthy partner. 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir. It was as much like a boudoir as a starveling mongrel is like an aristocratic chow. Patricia Brent, Spinster I am leaving here, because I have been thrust to one side, and these Northgerman and French starvelings have been stuck under my nose. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle We were all poor wretches and starvelings, but we were fellow-citizens, and we arranged to keep a certain level of the provisions. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z So, among these starveling nomads, this man who could not help but must be fed was a real burden; and the only wonder is that they did not kill him. The Spanish Pioneers Growing bolder, the starveling growled; the tiger struck at him with his paw, and the dog fled howling with fear. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Whereat the people of other countries laughed; but they ate the suppers, for all that,—the starvelings,—and came again. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 There is another of those starvelings, which the Italian Doctor trots up and down. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle After much wrangling, the manor-house farmer said, "Sooner than take such a beggar's bit as that, I'll make you a present of the whole, you starvelings!" Black Forest Village Stories "This is not your affair," exclaimed Carl, "you Prussian!--you starveling!" Waldfried A Novel They were "the bitten;" gaunt-eyed starvelings; tatterdemalions who might have posed for Rip Van Winkle or The Ancient Mariner. Seeds of Pine The gloomy little den,—I knew it well, with its dirty shelves of dirtier papers, its old tin boxes, and its rickety desk, at which two meanly-dressed starveling youths were busy writing. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The country that is cultivated and rendered fruitful by a population of starvelings, whose representatives, wan with hunger and privation in the midst of such plenty, officiate as living torches to light the banquet. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The other starveling speaks and says, "When I look into thine eyes Pain, cold and hunger disappear, And all my miseries." Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine It has but one story with a little courtyard which is surrounded by a picket fence; two or three starveling trees, a square patch of kitchen garden under the snow. Pierre and Luce Their development is arrested, or they are, from the beginning, poor creatures born of starvelings, and perhaps fated to give birth to pale, sapless beings like themselves. The Kempton-Wace Letters Where did you pick up this starveling tutor? Under False Pretences A Novel They lay flat and deflated, but laid out in one assembly beside a starveling twisted bush. The Invaders After Scott we beheld the starveling story—once, in the hands of Voltaire, as abstract as a parable—begin to be pampered upon facts. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) 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. Finn The Wolfhound The one unaccountable thing about it was that Saul Chadron, president of the Drovers’ Association, should sit there at the table and urge the lank, lean starveling to go his limit. The Rustler of Wind River The years of Bigot's régime were the lean years of the city, and this influx of a thousand new starvelings was a most unwelcome addition to the population. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Moved by the pitiful sight of a starveling crowd gazing into a bakery, Maurice had rushed in and bought an armful of loaves which he distributed, adding gold louis for the wretched mothers of families. Orphans of the Storm The Prince is called starveling, dried neat's tongue, stock-fish, and other names of the same nature. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The only noble things in this world are great hearts and great brains, There is no virtue in a starveling piety which turns all beauty into ugliness and shrivels up every natural affection. Arrows of Freethought There is no virtue in a starveling piety which turns all beauty into ugliness and shrivels up every natural affection. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) A Queen in crown of rubies drest, A starveling in a scanty vest, Are all as seems to suit thee best,— Thy appellations. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) How he is modelled all round like a Rembrandt—while your starveling monks have made of your Christ a mere decorative figure with a gold halo. Dreamers of the Ghetto Now near to him there was a post, and on this post was the dragon’s starveling daughter. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales “Eat away, starveling!” cried Thumbling, sticking the half of a cabbage into his bag. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine She demanded to know whether he wanted his children to be like children of their neighbors—clerks in small stores, starveling tradespeople and wives of little merchants. In a Little Town The liberality of the French Jockey Club is declared by Vanity Fair to be in striking contrast with the starveling policy of its English namesake. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Like a starveling she fell upon that plate of crisp bacon and delicately fried eggs and cleaned it to the last morsel. The Innocent Adventuress There were rocks, and rocky knolls, as about Grasmere and Wytheburn, and copses, but of a starveling growth; the cultivated ground poor. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 A queen in crown of rubies drest, A starveling in a scanty vest, Are all, as seems to suit thee best, Thy appellations. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Lean cattle stood disconsolately in the shadeless open, while the cultivated fields were a mass of yellow clods about the starveling crops. Winning the Wilderness O prayer By Jesus taught, thou hast become a cry For starveling mouths in Famine's ghastly lair— A beggar's plaint when Dives passes by. Pan and Æolus: Poems The founder has passed away, and the college also is no more; and the once richly-endowed benefice is now little better than a starveling. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter "Eat away, starveling!" cried Ned, sticking half a cabbage into his knapsack. The Magic Soap Bubble Only a starveling singer seeks The stuff of songs among the Greeks. Modern British Poetry 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 Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... And by a pack of base boors, by a puny, cream-faced, chicken-breasted, outlandish starveling, have I been robbed of it. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Yet Miss Sally must have made profit out of her starvelings, or Dothegirls Hall would not have existed. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 And now Tom being killed, and all spent and eaten, Is it poor little starveling Jack that must go, or poor little starveling Will?—What a committee of ways and means! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Slowly the winter left the land, but the spring that year was a meagre starveling, niggardly of smiles. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The way a poor little starveling persimmon wakes up when the same treatment comes along, is equally interesting. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. Ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-cherished, all that might be refined and elevated in her nature, if properly cultivated, is choked into starveling shapes by her enemy—Want. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Jim was wandering back to the road, deflected now and then by some starveling plant. Country Neighbors Henceforth there need be no "starvelings," "elf-skins" or "dried neat's tongues" of leanness for the Falstaffs to mock. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Who was this starveling the jester seemed to know? Under the Rose To them they are starvelings, who instead of draping themselves in their rags would do much better to mend them. The Fête At Coqueville 1907 It must have been that evil-looking traveller, that starveling. The King's Esquires The Jewel of France With his easy goodnature, his weariness and indifference, he was soon surrounded by a lot of literary starvelings. Artists' Wives Say, are ye some starveling knight's brat, or what are ye?' King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls The latter surveyed him curiously, and, noting his woebegone features and beggarly attire, pity, perhaps, assuaged his just anger toward this starveling. Under the Rose He should have fancy, or his starveling propositions will perish for lack of metaphor and the tropes and figures needed to vitalise a truism. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The Negro all this time has been an intellectual starveling. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time 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. The Brentons It is gladness, it is thanksgiving; it is the orphan, the starveling, pressed to the bosom, and bidden as its first commandment to remember its benefactor. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection It was the leaf of a starveling tree, growing out of a cleft where there was so little earth that it seemed to draw its sustenance from the rock. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories I slipped out before my starveling was awake, leaving a cheering note for her. Jane Journeys On In Philadelphia two starveling congregations representing the two competing sects occupied the same rude meeting-place each by itself on alternate Sundays. A History of American Christianity You never could get a starveling like Scott Brenton out of sight of your conscience. The Brentons They fell upon it like starveling dogs on a piece of offal found in the gutter. The Call of the Blood Said I: 'This lofty gentleman would cheat me, his neighbor, who have suffered all the contumely of this good society, and on starveling opportunity have slowly recovered independence. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Here you are:— "Arise! ye starvelings from your slumbers, Arise! ye criminals of want, For reason in revolt now thunders, And at last ends the age of cant." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 God help the poor, the respectable poor, those starvelings who cannot rise to independence and cannot sink to vileness. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 "No. 5" tried again, but his starveling strength could not shake a tenth of its weight. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow For it is in this way that whatever scanty foothold their starveling crops may find, has been fashioned and maintained in the stony little fields. Strangers at Lisconnel With the exception of the very small portion reserved for the Signori, when they visit Pienza, the palace has become a granary for country produce in a starveling land. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Here is no starveling—Heaven-forsaken— Crouching apart where the Nations throng; Proud as the proudest moves she among them— Well is she worthy a noble song! The Ontario Readers Third Book 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. Tales of the Chesapeake I am a mother crowned with joy, And yet I feel a bosom pang To pass the little starveling boy. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors The theory with which we beguiled ourselves, that the Bluebottles were physically starvelings and required our Herculean aid to lift the stretchers up the stairs, was palpably nonsense. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital They would soon find out, he declaimed, what it was to have at their head their own valiant Manuel, instead of that vagabond, that stranger, that Andalusian starveling; that traitor, that infidel, that Castro. Romance The manager scanned the raw-boned starveling with a look of wonder. Great Italian and French Composers He was no longer the sallow, pinched starveling. A People's Man Only the arts which in a pecuniary sense pay, will thrive, and the rest will live a starveling life. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business Away! you starveling, you eel skin, you dried neat's tongue, you stockfish! McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Invincible in her prejudice as all these Virginians, Joyce Basil has made her bed among the starveling First Families, and there she means to live and die. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 From the first moment when we see him at his inn, with the starveling little boys, through all the story, Mr. Squeers is consistently exquisite. Lost Leaders Then a light broke suddenly across his face, a light which seemed somehow to become reflected in the face of the starveling youth. A People's Man Take care not to plant out until the weather is favourable, for any great check will undo all your work, and make starvelings of your nurslings. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Here those who held fast to the Law met and contested for their old exclusiveness with wild heathen Idumean soldiers, starvelings, ruffians and strange women from out-lying towns. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem To-day I am a poor starveling of Nature, sucking many a dry straw, but so sure as God I shall stream like the sun. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 This person of course needed fresh servants every month, and was no doubt surprised at the ingratitude of the starvelings who perpetually left her. Side Lights If his self-conceit was comical, by reason of its candour, it was surely pitiable, because of the poor, dwarfed starveling of a soul that it revealed. Grey Roses And what a starveling hope it is that necromancy offers us! Outspoken Essays Who would be content to give a Belgian or Polish starveling a bare bit of bread, and a lonely stick of wood, and a rag of cloth. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel He will have poor turnips and starveling wheat, and kill his fields with undue apportionments of guano and bonedust. Around The Tea-Table If they grow up without shaking off the terrible mental darkness of their starveling childhood, we must provide for them in asylums. Side Lights You sit forever gluing, patching; You cook the scraps from others' fare; And from your heap of ashes hatching A starveling flame, ye blow it bare! Faust The instinct of self-preservation was altogether too masterful for the moral starveling. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Foy admits, that the majority were poor starveling boys, who could scarcely hold their muskets from cold and continual wet, hurried by forced marches, ill fed, desponding, and almost ripe for the hospital. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Was there a wizened shrub, a starveling bough, A fleecy thistle filched from by the wind, A weed, Pan's trampling hoof would disallow? The Poetry Of Robert Browning Tall starvelings, the cacti spread their arms; from a mimosa wood arose a cloud of vultures; it was the hour of the Angelus, but no bells rang in the churches of the town. Sir Mortimer "Hark to the old starveling cur!" he shouted. Stories from the Odyssey Unhappily, to me alone could the question be put whether the little aspiring starveling should be reprieved for another year. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I And now Tom being killed, and all spent and eaten, Is it poor little starveling Jack that must go, or poor little starveling Will?— Past and Present Viewed from the English, or even the American point, some of these universities might be pronounced poor, not to say starvelings. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 That which was venial in a miserable starveling of Grub Street is perfectly disgusting in the extravagantly paid novelists of these days—the caressed, of generous booksellers. Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 When these fancy starveling songs get up to the gate of heaven, how do you suppose they look, standing beside the great doxologies of the glorified? The Abominations of Modern Society She dwells at home in the desolation and loneliness of a practical widowhood, and often ekes out a meager support from a stingy and starveling salary. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler He stared at it; his belly was pinched with fear as a starveling's with hunger; and yet he was conscious that, in a way, he would have been disappointed if it had not been there. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories Grettir looked up and said— "Good luck, scurvy starvelings, if I should behold Each finger ye have doubled up with the cold." The Story of Grettir the Strong In those days Reb Shemuel was not alone in taking to his hearth "the Sabbath guest"—some forlorn starveling or other—to sit at the table in like honor with the master. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The sea-front at Nagasaki seemed very like a street in any starveling European town. Kimono Nature has sent us starvelings on the scene a hundred years late. Fenwick's Career Here and there, at the foot of some monstrous precipice, in a profound recess surrounded by a frenzy of rocks, they saw hamlets of a few miserable wigwams, with patches of starveling corn and beans. Overland "To thee I never sing but good," says Grettir: "I am not going to make thee like these starvelings." The Story of Grettir the Strong The starveling Brother of the Wolf took me by the hand and led me on. Red Axe To maintain the tradition Mr. Fujinami had hired a starveling journalist to write a series of random essays of a sentimental nature, which he had published under his own name, with the title, Fallen Cherry-Blossoms. Kimono The young millionairess, posing as a poor "companion," visits the starveling poet viâ the snow-covered roof and the attic window, bringing food, stoves, coverlets, wool to mend his socks and ideas to mend his opera. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 At last, four hours after leaving Diamond Creek, wearied to the marrow with incessant toil, they halted by a little spring, stretched themselves on a scrap of starveling grass, and chewed their meagre, musty supper. Overland The starveling wretch whose defence and plea are poverty and sickness, demands, and must have, in the name of humanity, an immunity from criticism, if not the patronage of the public. The Grammar of English Grammars But the prospect of adding one pound a year to his starveling dividends did not greatly exhilarate him. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories These starvelings were shot to end their sufferings, and also with the hope that their hides and fleshless bones might save the lives of our snow-beleaguered party. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, was as little like a starveling Sanyasi as any biped descendant of the anthropoids could possibly be. Essays in Rebellion They cheered—with shrill starveling voices they cheered. The Woman in White In the view of a certain stratum of society, Carrie was comfortably established—in the eyes of the starveling, beaten by every wind and gusty sheet of rain, she was safe in a halcyon harbour. Sister Carrie: a Novel It was a starveling sort of hope that lived a lingering life in me until to-day. The Haunted Hotel You would take him for a starveling usher, a decayed footman. The Highwayman The little, starveling drudge who had found him in the store, that first day, had completely vanished; it was as if she had never been. The Fortune Hunter A crowd of fine people that sometimes thickened to a mob, hustled by the cits and starveling poets who came to stare at them. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Here and there, thin cows crop starveling shrubs which have grown on the bank of some oued run dry. Saint Augustin An irreligious man—no matter what his genius may be—is always a starveling. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays They have, to their honour be it said, often protested against the taxes raised from struggling merchants and a starveling population, poor as Hindûs, being expended upon an 'imperial policy.' To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Very slight things were these, yet out of them Memory and Imagination made a sumptuous feast, at which Love, like a starveling prince in exile, sat down with never sated appetite. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada Not often did such gowns sweep the dust brought in by plebeian feet, nor such Venetian point collars rub shoulders with the frowsy Norwich drugget worn by hireling perjurers or starveling clerks. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger About the lip of the empty stone basin, vigorously chirruping, sparrows came and went, while in the far corner a grove of starveling sunflowers lifted their brown and yellow-rayed faces towards the light. The Far Horizon Nay, nay," cried Rachel, when she understood their words, "believe him not, ye starvelings. The Ghost Kings And these miserable old men and women hunted after corpses to keep from going to the church-yard themselves; for they were the most wretched of starvelings. Redburn. His First Voyage Here his quondam fellow-student, Dr. Sleigh, was again of service, introducing him to some of the booksellers, who gave him occasional, though starveling employment. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography "The starveling Greek," who was glad to barter his knowledge for the certainty of a good dinner, was sneered at by many Roman writers. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Meanwhile this starveling, in her hillock, Is living on some bit of straw Which she has labour'd home to draw. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes It is no joke to follow starveling beasts whose best speed seldom attains two miles and a half per hour. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Yet these starvelings would not fetch specimens of the white stuff, distant, perhaps, two direct miles of cross-cut, seen near Nuwaybi', and still visible. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 The lawyer had found a starveling parson in Jolicoeur who asked the fatal questions and pronounced the twain man and wife, adding the warning, "Whom God hath joined, let no man put asunder." We Can't Have Everything Was not the most hateful natality of all that which meant the endless increase of starvelings and social rebels? Fruitfulness Now, when you think of a hard day, a stand- up fight with press and dust and wounds, what is it but a sorry jest to talk of such starvelings' being able to stand it? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Beck'ning pale starvelings with their fresh, green hands, "And with their ashes mellowing the earth, "That she may yield her increase willingly. Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems On the third day the mighty man himself remained at home, and soon the starveling child came and began to beg, with tears, for food. Algonquin Legends of New England The genuine settlers—and a starveling crew they were—wrested their debt-laden livelihood from the local fishing. The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 Both of them would finish broken down, and their children in their turn would unconsciously perpetuate the swarming and accursed starveling race. Fruitfulness "Whither away, so late?" said the barber, whom they passed seated with his starveling boys round a mess of stockfish and parsnips, in the shop below. The Fortunes of Nigel The dietary of these "wild men of the woods" would astonish the starveling sons of civilization. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 He tossed that piece of comfort to the despot as a man might throw table scraps to a starveling dog! Rung Ho! For the rest there was a wide-rolling, sandy plain of great extent, surrounded on three sides by rocky hills and ridges, and patched with coarse, starveling grass or occasional bushes. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan The well was at least two miles distant, and not a hovel was in sight; a few Badawi children belonging to an outcast tribe fed their starveling goats upon the hills. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 In his cold lodgings, in the cold streets, in the draughts of the shop, he felt soul and body shrink together, till he became as the meanest of starveling hucksters. Will Warburton Father remembers him a 'scrubby starveling'—to use his phrase—a reviewer of novels for some literary paper. Thyrza She found it scarcely conceivable that the wretched little starveling of Mrs. Peckover's kitchen should have grown into anything that a man like Sidney could love. The Nether World No, no, Charlotte; I've been a mother to you ever since you came here, a little starveling thing, and I'll speak plain for your good. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Having naught else within their reach, the starvelings consume any and all Cruciferae, without distinction of species. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Here a child begins life a starveling, and ends as he began. A Woman-Hater I was a pedantic starveling; now, at all events, I see the world about me, and all the goodliness of it. Thyrza Come, then, my starvelings," said Mother Van Hove, pinching Marie's fat cheek, "and you shall save your strength by riding home on the load! The Belgian Twins The wretched starveling dwindles, shrivels up and soon disappears from view. Bramble-Bees and Others Folk used often to be warned against this very unhappiness in times past, when for every well-fed, contented person you saw a thousand miserable starvelings. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance This single phenomenon was my clew, and led me to others; and I have examined the mothers and the people of all ages, and I tell you it is a village of starvelings. A Woman-Hater They were mad with lust of life, a starveling life that the King had taxed, when he let not the Apura go. The World's Desire There are the barefoot monks and friars With gowns well tattered by the briars, The saints who lift their eyes and whine: I like them not—a starveling set! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 Here and there stood three or four brutal-looking men, and now and then a squalid woman with a starveling baby in her arms, in the light of the gin-shops. Robert Falconer If we are to play at the Feydau, you want a company of self-respecting comedians, and not a pack of cringing starvelings. Scaramouche The starveling of patience awoke to the idea of a feast. The Egoist The earliest modern sculptors who abandoned the bony, hideous, starveling figures of the monkish Middle Ages, learned their first lessons in better things from Greek bas-reliefs. The Unseen World and Other Essays Anyway, one starveling is enough in any house. The Cloister and the Hearth And when we part with the improved creature, lofty and enlarged, we hardly know or care whether the starveling is yet mustering in hollows of woodlands, or whether it is over or to come. Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays But no army could they discover, whether of friend or foe; only some starveling old women and men, with a few sheep and oxen which had been left behind. Anabasis His shrewd starveling face broadened with joy at dinner, and he blurted, "Gee whillikins, Mrs. Babbitt, if you knew how good it is to have home eats again!" Babbitt |
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