Went to bed supperless. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : an after-the-theater supper. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : the supper dishes. ,a supper party. From Dictionary.com.
'Tis better you supperless sleep with whole bones. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects] Reference
"I must go to bed hungry" and he lay down supperless. From Wordnik.com. [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference
If the fly flies, the frog goes not supperless to bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
When a young girl she had often gone supperless to bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
Not having anything to eat, they both went supperless to bed. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
It was not as if Shandi would have to sleep out-of-doors, supperless. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
He laid himself down to sleep in a furrow, heartbroken, and supperless. From Wordnik.com. [Candide] Reference
So Wry-Face stored the potato in the potato-bin, and he went supperless to bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
He had even forgotten that he was hungry, and felt no pang at going supperless. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
At last night came on, and he lay down and slept, supperless, at the foot of a tree. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Miranda, at her supperless window, watched the evening hours and thought many thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
In our good cheer we pitied the Eft of Katahdin: he might sneer, but he was supperless. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
Wood is scarce; unless you or your pal have an eye to this, you may go supperless for want of a fire. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
This wasn't the first time she and Keman had been sent to bed supperless, and it probably wouldn't be the last. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
So that when night at last dropped down upon him he was more hungry than ever and had to go to sleep supperless. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference
So Martin drank, in his easy way, to show that he was good friends with the house, and then went supperless to bed. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 24] Reference
Go, O my son, fetch us some victual, for I slept not last night for excess of hunger, having gone to bed supperless. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I am positively dying with hunger, and I have no taste for taking up my abode supperless among these mountains of yours. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
Many were supperless when all save Jim and little Keno had again returned to Borealis and left the two alone at the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Could poor Miranda, sitting supperless in the dark, have but known his thought, her lonely heart would have fluttered happily. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The idea of sending out a pack animal for the elk was out of the question; therefore, the whole party went, supperless, to bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
The Bania while he is poor is very abstemious, and it is said that on a day when he has made no money he goes supperless to bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The two children in the other room had been sent early to bed in order that in sleep they might forget they had gone supperless. From Wordnik.com. [A PIECE OF STEAK] Reference
Our fare was varied; sometimes we feaisted on parrot pie or vultures eggs; again we lay down on the hard, stony ground supperless. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
We were resigned to remain supperless, when, with a prodigious clatter on the stony street, and a wild calling of voices, came down three. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
My guide always conducted me to the house of the principal person in the village; we should otherwise have often gone supperless to rest. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Nubia] Reference
Entreaties were of no avail, he would not relent; and the men, in exceedingly bad temper, and hungry, were obliged to go to bed supperless. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
"How!" said he to himself, "last night I went supperless to bed, and yet these people all fancy I am in a condition to pay a thousand ducats for a dark-eyed slave!". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Children, and for my own part remained supperless. From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference
'If I could score one dance with her, I'd go home supperless and feasted,' said he. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Roger had indeed gone supperless, as usual; his supper he had swilled and not eaten. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
"The cook has often no meat to roast," said the Count, in the same letter, "so that we are often obliged to go supperless to bed.". From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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