33 adjectives to describe starvation

These were falling one by one in slow, sure starvation along the banks of the hot, sluggish streams, while thousands of buzzards correspondingly fat were sailing above them, or standing gorged on the ground beneath the trees, waiting with easy faith for fresh carcasses.

The agricultural classes did not suffer as much as operatives in mills, since they got a high price for their grain; but the more remunerative agriculture became to landlords, the more miserable were those laborers who paid all they could earn to save themselves from absolute starvation.

Here, beside her, was this prince among men, her champion, beaten to his ornamental knees by Fate, and contemplating a miserable, uncertain career to keep his godlike body from actual starvation.

In different portions of Los Angeles and San Diego counties, from one half to three fourths of them died of sheer starvation.

At last, she fled to Berlin; keeping herself from utter starvation, by needlework.

He lingered no less than fifteen days in this dreadful state, and died, at last, apparently of mere starvation.

He kept his life and his property safe through all those years of peril and proscription, with less sacrifice of principle than many who had made louder professions, and diedby a singular act of voluntary starvation, to make short work with an incurable diseaseat a ripe old age; a godless Epicurean, no doubt, but not the worst of them.

So, when everything was arranged, I found myself possessed of my little girl, of complete personal freedom, and of a small monthly income sufficient for respectable starvation.

The country is in a state of rebellion from literal starvation.

Truckmen are actually growing civil with a little starvation.

To part with Coleridge, to exchange the ease and congenial scholastic atmosphere of the Hospital for the res angusta domi, for the intellectual starvation of a life of counting-house drudgery, must have been a bitter trial for him.

Nicely administered it might save a woman from rapid starvation and keep her thin for quite a time.

Not the danger of physical starvation so much as the actual presence of mental starvation was the thing that got on your nerves in a land where the sun is seldom seen in winter and rainy days are the rule.

Fasting N. fasting; xerophagy^; famishment, starvation.

That winter the poor were very near starvation in the cities of Italy, and the peasants had to cut down their olive groves for fuel.

When Mackintosh and Sydney Smith first knew him in Edinburgh, he was enduring, with all the impatience of his sensitive nature, what he called 'a slow, obscure, philosophical starvation' at the Scotch bar.

When Mackintosh and Sydney Smith first knew him in Edinburgh, he was enduring, with all the impatience of his sensitive nature, what he called 'a slow, obscure, philosophical starvation' at the Scotch bar.

If they are really face to face with probable starvation, they may go to some charitable institution where fine needlework is given out, and earn a few dollars in that way.

The first victims of such famines are always the dogs; and the people being thus deprived of their only means of transportation, cannot get away from the famine-stricken settlement, and after eating their boots, sealskin thongs, and scraps of untanned leather, they finally die of pure starvation.

It was to Liszt that she was indebted for rescue from downright starvation.

Our imagination has become so sensitive and vivid that it gives us a keen pang to think of the happy lives of these birds as being ruthlessly cut short and their young left to die in their nests in the agonies of cruel starvation.

"] Yet another endurable shortage is reported from the seaside, where an old sailor on the local sea front has been lamenting the spiritual starvation brought about by the war.

Such a computation is impossible when we read of entire towns destroyed not once but 6, 8, and 10 times; of crops swept away by the tempest's fury, and the subsequent starvation of untold thousands; of whole fleets of ships swallowed up by the sea with every soul on board, and of hundreds of others cast on shore like coco shards.

The people are, of course, told, with suitable statistics, how famine is decimating England and France, and how the total starvation of those unfortunate countries is imminent.

I don't mean that you will see in the registry of deaths that this or that particular tutor died of well-marked, uncomplicated starvation.

33 adjectives to describe  starvation