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Definition of Starves
1. starve [v] - See also: starve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starves
Literary usage of Starves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1856)
"AGRIPPINA starves HERSELF. - INFATUATION OF TIBERIUS. - HIS MORTIFICATION AT THE
DESPONDENCY OF THE NOBLES. — VOLUNTARY DEATHS OF NERVA AND ARRUNTIUS ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"imaginative, fancy pictures, on which humanity starves and cannot live; not a
mesa of that manna I drearily eulogized a while ago, which indeed at first ..."
3. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1871)
"Vengeance for the murder of Drusus.—Savage cruelty of Tiberius.—Horrible death
of the younger Drusus.—Agrippina starves herself.—Infatuation of Tiberius. ..."
4. The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors by Tryon Edwards, William Buell Sprague (1853)
"It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead ; and makes him submit
to more mortifications to lose heaven, than the martyr undergoes to gain it. ..."
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