Lexicographical Neighbors of Starver
Literary usage of Starver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gutter-babies by Dorothea Slade (1912)
"CHAPTER XXIII The starver BEHIND the top windows of the Gutter Castle the wreck
of the ... Tell me that, I say, yer bleedin' starver!" He did not tell her, ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"231), agricultural songs, musical toasts, sailors' chanties, a cattle-call, a "
bird-starver"s " cry; and more remarkable than these, two or three specimens ..."
3. The Bookman (1908)
"The wife beater and the child starver are within his gates. And when Mr.
Kipling's pen is given over to a crusade of Imperialism, there are those who long ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"... a coward in the street, a braggart in the tap-room, a beater of helpless women,
and a starver of little children ; does be not tell his neighbour, ..."
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