Starvation and misery, properly handled, are strong incentives.

His wife found herself consecrated to poverty and the fanatic ideals of a husband, to whom starvation was only a detail in the scheme of his life,a scheme and a life for which she had neither inclination nor understanding.

The starvation and sense of exile had been parts of a troubled dreama dream which had also had its ecstasy, but had come into a consuming fever, with delirious imaginings of fresh fountains, of shapes drawn from the memory of childhood, and of the cool touch of kindred hands upon the brow.

For every recorded case there will be a hundred unrecorded cases where starvation is the practical immediate cause of death.

The starvation of multitudes of wretched human beings is a ghastly comment upon this ideal agriculture.

I was convinced of this when he added slowly: "Starvation may be their game.