Long afterwards, Saul slew some of them, and God sent upon Israel a three years' famine for it.

What use would it be in the hour when complete commercial dislocation caused downright famine?

The failure of the potato crop did at last produce actual and awful famine in Ireland.

For a long time the fortress had faced famine.

For it is this Fungus which is the cause of the potato disease; and, therefore, Peronospora infestans (doubtless of exclusively Saxon origin, though not accurately known to be so) brought about the Irish famine.

That pious Joseph in the Church behold, To feed your famine, and refuse your gold: The Joseph you exiled, the Joseph whom you sold.

Thus was the passage into Italy barred against the Spaniards, by obstacles which they can never surmount, while the other army is besieged by our fleet, and by the Austrians; and reduced, instead of conquering kingdoms, to change their camp, and regulate their marches, with no other view than to avoid famine.

Lands which, although suitable for tobacco growing, were previously planted with rice or corn, shall, as far as practicable, be replaced by forest clearings, in order, as far as possible, to prevent famine and to bring the interests of the natives into harmony with those of the authorities. § 351.

he who crossed into Dalmatia with thee once, as a supernumerary, the time he was suspected of having aided the young Frenchman in running away with a senator's daughter?" "Do I remember the last famine?

You gutling Rascal, you are enough to breed a Famine in a Land.

The probabilities were that this city would fall, for it was already besieged, and was beginning to suffer famine.

Roscoe thought of smallpox, the terrible plague that usually follows northern famine, and a shiver ran through him.

So shipwreck'd passengers escape to land, So look they, when on the bare beach they stand, Dropping and cold, and their first fear scarce o'er, Expecting famine on a desert shore.

While Hannibal was in the neighbourhood of Tarentum, and both the consuls in Samnium, though they seemed as if they were about to besiege Capua, the Campanians were experiencing famine, that calamity which is the usual attendant of a protracted siege.

Look about you, and say what is it you see that doesn't foretell famine.

It's just Britain, the land we've a' loved and wanted to see happy and safesafe frae the Hun and frae the famine he tried to bring upon it.

Rochester Castle, which hitherto only famine had been able to open, was to fall at last to Wat Tyler and his Peasants in 1381, with the help of the people of the city.

By the trampling of the Takers, Strong march of man and beast; The flails of those earth-shakers Left a famine where they ceased.

She makes a walk of war and a sport of danger, an ease of labour and a jest of death: she makes famine but abstinence, want but a patience, sickness but a purge, and death a puff.

It was he who met the immediate famine by importing large quantities of rice.

The encouragement of manufacturing is one of the methods the government has adopted to prevent or mitigate famines, and its policy is gradually becoming felt by the increase of mechanical industries and the employment of the coolie class in lines other than agriculture.

I imagined they came to destroy the fruit of the earth, and would occasion a famine in the land.

There occurred a real and pressing famine, which was increased to the utmost severity by Papirius Dionysius, the grain commissioner, in order that Cleander, whose thefts would seem as much responsible for it as any cause, might both incur hatred and suffer destruction at the hands of the Romans.

The recollection that it was his dagger that now confined them dispelled the chill which the irate philosopher had thrown over his glowing excitement; he submissively proposed a return to potatoes, piling up famine and wheat over the one little thought that diffused such a delicious warmth through his breast; as charcoal-burners heap dead ashes over their fire, to hide it from the rough intrusion of chilling winds.

Appian says she pleaded famine and pestilence in her country in declining the demands of Cassius for subsidies.