But they compared very favourably with the famine prices in Quebec, where most 'luxuries' soon became unobtainable at any price.

Famine relief paved the way for greatly extended effort to spread Gospel knowledge among the Roman Catholic population.

Her father died of hunger on the way, And the lone creature wandered in the streets Of towns from door to door, and vainly begged For food, till some, deep moved by the sad tales Of the lone straggler, safely lodged her in A famine camp, where, heavy laden with A double sorrow (for her lover too, She thought, had died), her tedious life she spent.

Later, when the famine year came, she had sold the child to Angus McRae.

Quail ran then in the Black Rock by hundreds,so you will still find them in fortunate years,and in the famine time the women cut their long hair to make snares when the flocks came morning and evening to the springs.

We're stinting ourselves on our own supplies now, and farther north the Company will soon be on famine rations if the cold doesn't let upand

Through perils of robbers and perils of famine he labored on, building villages, digging wells, distributing American corn in famine days, reproving, teaching, guiding.

Higgins copied out the letter in his best handwriting and sent it off through the long and winding channels by which subalterns on famine duty communicate with the heaven-born ones who sit on the far-off hills.

"Of course, like all great Russian landholders, you have your troubles with the people, though you are not, strictly speaking, within the famine district.

Expectation of the end of the world causes the sowing of seed and other agricultural work to be neglected; famine ensues therefrom.

With famine gaunt, and haggard face of doom, She sits there soundless in the awful gloom.

Why art the snow in winter-storm, The rain in summer mild? The breath from above Of Him who is Love, In the snow and the rain-storm bids me to rove, Lest the young-budding earth Be destroyed in the birth, And Famine insult over Plenty and Mirth.

To the EARL of GODOLPHIN. While weeping Europe bends beneath her ills, And where the sword destroys not, famine kills; Our isle enjoys by your successful care, The pomp of peace amidst the woes of war.

A similar medal was conferred upon Dr. Louis Klopsch of the Christian Herald, New York, who collected and forwarded $600,000 for direct famine relief and provided for the support of 5,000 famine orphans for five years.

The odious rumor of this famine pact, as the bitter saying was, soon spread amongst the mob.

Everlasting honour to you, then; and Corn-laws many as you will, till your own deep stomachs cry Enough, or some voice of Human pity for our famine bids you Hold!"

Three gloomy years against this day were set, But this one mighty sum has clear'd the debt: Like Joseph's dream, but with a better doom, The famine past, the plenty still to come.

Mr. Phipps, on the other hand, had his sympathy and interest excited in the industrial conditions of India, and particularly in the famine phenomena.

In that same land is plenty, Profusion, wealth, and power, Enough to stay the famine-plague

The Anglo-Indian civilian during some of his working hourswhen he is toiling at a scheme of irrigation, or forestry, or famine-preventionmay live in an atmosphere of impersonal science which is far removed from the jealousies and superstitions of the villagers in his district.

Moizz had providently sent grain ships to relieve their distress, and as the price of bread nevertheless remained at famine rates, Gawhar publicly flogged the millers, established a central corn-exchange, and compelled everyone to sell his corn there under the eye of a government inspector.

As a rule the monsoons are very reliable, but every few years they fail, and a famine results.

Under the ravening madness of famine, legal restraints and moral principles were forgotten, and famine riots broke out.

To this day "Famine roads" may be met with in the middle of snipe bogs, or skirting precipices where no road was ever wanted or could possibly be used.

We've got to do our missionary work the way they feed famine sufferers.