He mentioned these things merely to show that railway companies had no right to starve cattle.

Each man dismounted and sat down, as if to wait and starve us out.

The mule and horse meat became totally unfit for use, but they had nothing else to eat, and had to eat it or starve.

He would starve, he said, if he had to cook for himself as well as swing a shovel; and the Boy, acting on pure instinct, pretended that he believed this was so.

Here was a young fellow, who, before he went lame, had been all up and down the creek for days looking for a jobprobably hadn't a pennylivin' off his friend, who himself would starve but for the privilege Austin gave him of washing out Austin's gold.

" "That night before we got to Snow Camp, when you wouldn'tcouldn't go any farther, I meant to go and leave youtake the sled, and takeI guess I meant to take everything and leave you to starve.

"I might as well eat," she thought resignedly, "for if I starve myself to death or die of worry, there won't be anybody left to pay for that old book worm.

She had been living in a little flat in Westminster on a monthly allowance which Sir Horace made her, but he'd suddenly cut off her allowance and she'd have to be turned out in the street to starve because she couldn't pay her rent.

Cleared out for good and left his unfortunate wife and child to starve.

"As a matter of justice, the place should never have been yours, and I won't accept a dollar of the money if I starve to death!" "Think of your father," suggested Aunt Jane, cunningly.

But I would starve on good roast Beef, Ere I would look so like a thief.

We stave 'em off, say: that case, they'll settle down to starve us, right and proper.

Added to this was now an anxiety lest she should starve herself to death rather than stay with him any longer.

Mrs. Leigh could have been safely left to starve had her attempted arson of that theater really come off, especially with loss of life.

The Government has to bribe Germans to go to them; her trade with them is microscopic; and if the twenty millions who have been added to Germany's population since the war had had to depend on their country's political conquest they would have had to starve.

The Bostonian may quit his house to starve in the fields; his dog may refuse to set, and smart under the lash, and they may then congratulate each other upon the smiles of liberty, "profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight.

'Then I must starve.

It's growing old now; and when it dies, he'll starve.'

Don't be silly and think you'll try To bother the colleges, when you die, With codicil this, and codicil that, That Knowledge may starve while Law grows fat; For there never was pitcher that wouldn't spill, And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will!

One article of furniture after another was reluctantly sacrificed, or some little comfort abridged, until, at the end of months of degradation and absolute distress, their bare board was spread within bare walls, and it became necessary to beg, to starve, or to remove.

and if there be no way to get victuals; rather than starve, let us Read or Preach!

If we are industrious, we shall never starve, for, as Poor RICHARD says, At the working man's houses Hunger looks in; but dares not enter.

He would simply have disappeared with the money and left you to rot or starve.

You take long sled journeys, you freeze, you starve, you erect cairns at your farthest point north, or west, or whatever it is.

The sheep are unhappy that live in his fold, when they shall either starve or feed on ill ground.