16 Words to use with starvation

We are told that the diminution of the ministry is due to the starvation wages that are paid in the vast majority of cases, and of course it is true that where a married clergy is allowed, men who believe they have a calling both to ministerial and to domestic life will think twice before they follow the call of the first when the pecuniary returns are such as to make the second impossible, which is, generally speaking, the situation today.

These new-comers are obviously able, in their eagerness for work, to drive down the rate of wages even below what represents starvation-point for the native worker.

The radio boys aiding the snow bound; or, Starvation days at Lumber Run, by Allen Chapman, pseud. of Edward Stratemeyer.

This seems to be assumed in much of the argument of labor leaders, for they speak as if all wages, but for trade unions, would be at the starvation level; and they credit everything above that level to the work of the union.

What could have been more ill-advised, nay, more fatal in these starvation times, than the banquet to the Flanders Regiment?

All this seemed very wonderful to Mr. Heatherbloom; there had never before been such a breakfast; compared to it, the dejeuner à la fourchette of a Durand or a Foyot was as starvation fare.

It's going to be a starvation winter.

Alice lost no time in procuring such work from a tailor as she felt competent to do, and applied herself diligently to her task; but a very short trial convinced her, that, at the "starvation prices" then paid for needlework, she should not be able to earn even her board.

The price of food must therefore rapidly and greatly rise, and that alone would immediately impose very great hardships on the whole of the working class, of which a considerable part would be driven across the line which separates modern comfort from the starvation margin.

A starvation-business.

*** Further evidence of the success of the U-boat starvation campaign has been thoughtlessly afforded the German Press by a London newspaper which has announced that burglars are now using practically nothing but skeleton keys.

Look like starvation ceptin' what we had stored way.

They do not have to pray for the extra crust when starvation hovers near; for the softening of an obdurate landlord's heart; for strength in temptation, light in darkness, salvation from vice; for a friend in friendlessness; for that miracle of miracles, an opportunity to struggling ambition; for the ending of a dark night, the breaking of day; and, oh!

He saw that there were three thin slices of bacon in the frying pan, and it struck him that it would be bad taste to reveal a starvation appetite in the face of such famine.

It was a long, weary waiting, on starvation rations until the nineteenth of February.

We had seen something of the "shuttle gatherings," the "plug-drawings," the wild starvation riots, and strikes of days gone by; and he agreed with me that one reason for the difference of their demeanour during the present trying circumstances lies in their increasing intelligence.

16 Words to use with  starvation