Starving
['sta:viŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starve
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To dream of being in a starving condition, portends unfruitful labors and a dearth of friends. To see others in this condition, omens misery and dissatisfaction with present companions and employment.
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Examples
- They say that there are some families almost starving to death in Briarfield. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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.
- If he is starving, or if he is satiated with music for the time being, he will naturally judge food to have the greater worth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am a friend of the red men of Barsoom and I am starving. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Take this as a warning from men that are starving, and have starving wives and children to go home to when they have done this deed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Amelia thinks, and thinks, and racks her brain, to find some means of increasing the small pittance upon which the household is starving. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You will set me down as a species of tyrant and Bluebeard, starving women in a garret; whereasafter all, I am no such thing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was usually a great eater, and I wished to give myself some diversion in half starving him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I wish she may not be starving him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In course, starving folk cannot be satisfied or settled folk. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I never saw such utterly wretched, starving, sad-visaged, broken-hearted looking curs in my life. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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