Who was this starveling the jester seemed to know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

• "You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults] Reference

The little starveling woman had returned, hungry for life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

Say, are ye some starveling knight's brat, or what are ye? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

They cheered — with shrill starveling voices they cheered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in White] Reference

Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The first part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference

The parvenu journalist will be succeeded by the starveling hack.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference

The girl, possessed of a starveling™s thin, pale face, they called Kelida.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormblade]

They all looked like starveling girl children with huge eyes and small mouths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ill Met By Moonlight]

It was a starveling sort of hope that lived a lingering life in me until to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted Hotel] Reference

An irreligious man -- no matter what his genius may be -- is always a starveling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

He was a thin young man with the face of a starveling and the eyes of a cutthroat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

Tiring of this starveling existence, he enlisted as a mercenary in the armies of Turan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Wanderer]

Wakening from their apathetic misery, the starveling garrison hailed him as a deliverer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

Badawi children belonging to an outcast tribe fed their starveling goats upon the hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

What were the descendants of its dwellers but starveling nomads and pestiferous bandits?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genesis]

But on this starveling world, it must be desperate for carbon, phosphorus, oxygen, calcium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind from The Sun]

Growing tired of this starveling existence, he enlisted as a mercenary in the armies of Turan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Adventurer]

Your species might or might not survive; but if you do, it will be as a few starveling primitives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

Tiring of this starveling existence, Conan enlisted as a mercenary soldier in the armies of Turan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

The dietary of these “wild men of the woods” would astonish the starveling sons of civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

Bearded men in ragged gowns whipped starveling donkeys, overloaded with merchandise, toward the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Will Be Time]

It is no joke to follow starveling beasts whose best speed seldom attains two miles and a half per hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

Growing tired of this starveling existence, Conan enlisted as a mercenary soldier in the armies of Turan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

It made as little noise as possible, changing the bones of its face back into Jimmy's starveling countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The way a poor little starveling persimmon wakes up when the same treatment comes along, is equally interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.] Reference

That made them roar; Forbes was a beefily substantial sort, while Fogarty Simms was a pinched starveling of a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

One of my sisters was in downtown San Jose when this starveling stray all but clawed through a fence to get to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’re Suckers « Whatever] Reference

Lastly, he said he was not such a starveling beggar as to bid his guests depart when his splendid house could accommodate them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Garden of Iden] Reference

The founder has passed away, and the college also is no more; and the once richly-endowed benefice is now little better than a starveling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

The starveling of patience awoke to the idea of a feast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

One recurring bit of business is the starveling cat, who always appears in doggerel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Bernstein] Reference

(There must be a dozen versions of this starveling cat, and you can buy starveling cat t shirts.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Bernstein] Reference

An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocents Abroad] Reference