Lexicographical Neighbors of Starvings
Literary usage of Starvings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Magnificent Library of the Late Hon. Henry C. Murphy, of by Henry Cruse Murphy, George A. Leavitt & Co (1884)
"... Bonds and Imprisonments, Beatings and Chainings, Starvings and Huntings, Fines
and Confiscation of Estates, Burning in the Hand and Cutting of ears, ..."
2. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1865)
"... by starvings, flogging, drenchings with cold water, and tight strappings to
his cell wall in the attitude of crucifixion, to hang himself. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... with what a perfect hatred little Briihl regards him, Fried- ' rich ; and to
what pitch of humour, owing to those Moravian- ' Foray starvings, ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... Fried- ' rich; and to what pitch of humour, owing to those Moravian- ' Foray
starvings, marchings about, and inhuman treatment of the ' poor Saxon Army, ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... Friedrich; 'and to what pitch of humour, owing to those Moravian - 'Foray
starvings, marchings about, and inhuman treatment ' of the poor Saxon Army, ..."
6. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1848)
"... to augment the miserable livings, or rather starvings, which too often fall
to the lot of some of the most excellent of the clergy. ..."
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