They have with them five or six half-starved dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Negritos of Zambales] Reference

But they were still half-starved, and in very low spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of General Gordon] Reference

Again he was a poor half-starved cabin-boy in the Holland trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

His half-starved stomach couldn't tolerate that much food all at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chocolate Grenades] Reference

I ever was in, with numerous half-starved pigs and dogs running about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

It was impossible to keep the weary and half-starved men to regular routine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

"Is he a tall, large-framed man, but gaunt and spare as a half-starved hound?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

And see there too, that tattered, half-starved boy, just entering the yard with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

My wife and children were half-naked and half-starved only this time last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

What groans of over-fed or half-starved who fall on the flag sun struck or in fits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference

The thongs were freshly cut from some hide, and the half-starved dogs smelled them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference

In the farms were styes full of half-starved pigs, grunting and groaning with hideous effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

At one broken-down house he was met by a frail woman who carried a half-starved child in her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference

Marines killed at the Choson Reservoir, lines of panic-stricken refugees, half-starved war orphans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea's Heartbreaking Hills] Reference

Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly and half-starved his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

There, where a dozen half-starved wretches were crowded into one small room, the plague was at its height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Cattle are very subject to lice, particularly when they are neglected, half-starved, and in poor condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

Do you know that little half-starved, bare-footed child, that you just sent home with two quarts of rank poison?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

All that night, tired, exhausted and half-starved, we plodded along the frozen trails of the pitch black forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Fairy dog wandering about, and took it home, but he did not nurse the half-starved animal, nor did he nourish it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

Do you suppose we would honor them today if they had half-starved themselves in the snow that winter just for fun?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

Hot suppers were a rarity in that camp, and the very thought of such a treat was cheering to the half-starved men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Miserable devils of half-starved Italians swarm along the road, and they will try to make hay while the sun shines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

S. Onofrio of the Perugia altar-piece, stood just so, a half-starved street-beggar, with baggy skin over rheumatic joints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luca Signorelli] Reference

It was not until almost two weeks later that the two half-starved messengers were picked up by the canoes of some friendly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference

In about an hour and a half she came off with three turtle, some yams, plantains, cocoa-nuts, and a few half-starved fowls.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

With a heavy stone, Anna soon broke open a small box of candied fruit, selecting some, she gave it to the half-starved child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference

Ta-ou-renche pushed on among the foremost, Meynell nearly by his side, while their dogs, half-starved and ravenous, dashed on in front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

It took some weeks before Ivan, half-starved, badly clothed, living like a day-laborer, was discovered in his garret on Vassily Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

"Is the child sick?" asked Bensef, advancing to the cradle and observing the poor half-starved creature struggling and whining for relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Wet or dry, however, the provisions were a godsend to the half-starved family, and their hearts seemed to open to me with amazing rapidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

Many of the prisoners were cavalry, armed with lances, and mounted on miserable little half-starved horses that did not look as if they could carry their riders out of town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference