The first winter they were nearly starved to death.

They think he starved in the wilderness, or got into the hands of the wild Indians, and is long ago dead.

"Starved for water," proffered the surgeon.

True, I would glory in themah, luxury and riches mean little to me, my dear, and I can conceive of no greater happiness than to starve with you.

This assistance to the besieged and starving scouts came like a vessel to ship-wrecked men drifting and starving on a raft in mid-ocean.

Peh-I and Shuh-Ts'i starved at the foot of Shau-yang, and the people make mention of them to this day.

The winter-bleached prairie straw proved devoid of nourishment; and they could only keep them from starving by seeking for the "browse," as it is called, this being the green bark and tender buds and branches of the cottonwood and other stunted growths in the hollows.

It gave me no little pleasure to think how mad Carver Doone must be with me for robbing him of the lovely bride whom he was trying to starve into marriage.

The Church's outpost on a neck of land By ebb of faith the foremost left the last Dull, starved of hope, we watched the driven sand Blown through the hour-glass, covering our past, Counting no hours to our reliefno hail Across the hills, and on the sea no sail!

So long as I am stationed here I shall do this, for I cannot let them starve before my eyes.

The immense majority of my brother exiles will rather starve than yield to such a snare.

His coyness to the other's passionfor hate demands a return as much as love, and starves without itis most arch and pleasant.

He starves as never in the age of rations; The fishy produce of the boundless sea Fails to appease the hungry trippers' passions Who barely pouch one shrimp apiece for tea.

Had she not done this, she and her husband must inevitably have starved during the following months.

I am grateful to you for thinking of me, for if you had not told them I might have stayed there and starved like a beast in a trap.

Hearts starve beneath coverings of velvet and loneliness often rides in a carriage.

That wretched creature starved between two bundles of hay, because he could not make up his mind which bundle to turn to first.

Driven from one place in the Highlands to another, starved out of some districts, and forced from others by the opposition of the inhabitants, Bruce attempted to force his way into Lorn; but he was again defeated, through force of numbers, at a place called Dalry.

In 1824, the four elder girls were admitted as pupils to Cowan Bridge School for the daughters of clergymen, where they were half starved amid the most insanitary surroundings.

Meanwhile the garrison was starving from want of provisions, and hampered by a multitude of helpless women and children.

He grieved to give up his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to starve among the mountains.

He is so beautiful and good, I could die for him!" When Ossoli and Margaret reached Rieta, what was their horror to find their child worn to a skeleton, half starved through the falsity of a nurse.

But the base miser starves amidst his store, Broods on his gold, and, griping still at more, Sits sadly pining, and believes he's poor.

We have forgotten the terrible years when England lay cold and starving under the clutch of the landlords and their taxes on food.

And I stript off my cloak very quick, and put it about her, for she was scarce covered with her clothes that had been all torn among the bushes; so that part she shook with an utter chill, and part because of weakness, for she was nigh to be starved unto her death, and destroyed with her grief and lonesomeness.