Starved

Examples

• Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I have starved her and the boy too; and now I am weak and helpless, Jem, she'll murder me for it; I know she will. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And the little pinched nose of his; so thin was it that it looked half starved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay; she worked when she could, and she starved when she must. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He was a man of such rigid refinement, that he would have starved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rather than be a companion, I would have made shirts and starved. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Reg'lar starved out, hey? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His animals, too, had been starved, and their carcasses lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Many's the time, he'd have starved but for me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I'd have fastened door and window and starved out, afore I'd ever have let ye in, if I had known what ye came for! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• For the three first days of our inhabiting this garret, we really ran the risk of being starved, as it was impossible to procure any attendance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half starved their families. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I told my wife, she had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herself and her daughter to nothing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They were in a deplorable condition and must have starved but for the support the government gave them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I myself have never had enough to eat but I am a big eater and I have not starved. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Starved and tired enough he was: but he looked happier than when he set out. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Now you shall be starved. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was not beaten, or starved; but the wrong that was done to me had no intervals of relenting, and was done in a systematic, passionless manner. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He must be starved, you know;that is certain; absolutely starved. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The roads were strewn with the debris of broken wagons and the carcasses of thousands of starved mules and horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Saint Antoine slept, the Defarges slept: even The Vengeance slept with her starved grocer, and the drum was at rest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• If we could only fall in wi' some of these starved ragamuffins of frame-breakers we could win a grand victory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No--she needn't--and she shan't--and I won't be a slave in my own house--and I won't be starved and choked with poison. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I say she was starved to death. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I had so little money left that I nearly starved at Decatur, Alabama, and had to stay three days before going on north to Nashville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After all, his life had been too starved. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• They had been beaten, and starved, and shut up together, many and many a time. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The Army of the Ohio had been getting supplies over Cumberland Gap until their animals had nearly all starved. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They starved her! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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