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He had scarce stepped from the tent-door before there arose on the sudden, and at no great distance from the square over which he was hurrying his precious burden, a horrible din, a stamping, snorting, galloping and neighing of horses, as if a dozen famished bears or wolves had suddenly made their way into the Indian pinfold, carrying death and distraction into the whole herd.
About the same time died the Duchesse de Gesvres, separated from a husband who had been the scourge of his family, and had dissipated millions of her fortune. She was a sort of witch, tall and lean, who walked like an ostrich. She sometimes came to Court, with the odd look and famished expression to which her husband had brought her. Virtue, wit, and dignity distinguished her.
And, seated on the turf not far from Judas, the widow and her son partook of the dried figs with the eagerness of those who are well-nigh famished. "Your child looks ill," observed the Asmonean, regarding with compassion the wasted shrunken frame of the boy. "He will not suffer long," replied the widow, with the calm apathy of despair.
I slipped a cup into my pocket. It is not broken. I will pour you out a cup of milk." The girl seized the bread and butter, and began devouring it. She was so famished that she almost tore it as she ate.
Yet, although the authorities were fully aware that no more trains were going East they made no attempt to cope with the influx of arriving and stranded passengers. They were left to their own devices. The majority of the women and children were famished, thirsty, and tired, but the officials resolutely refused to open the waiting rooms and buffets before the usual hour.
"Come, come," bustled Harry, "Jack will be getting hungry. Whose watch is it in the kitchenette? I was on last, I know!" "Yes, you were!" declared Arnold in mock anger. "You are always just off duty when there's work to do! We know you!" It was decided that Harry must prepare supper, for the boys were all famished after their hard day's work.
The seventh and last is a humorous description of a famished beau, who had dined only with duke Humfrey, and who was strangely adorned with exotic dress. To these three satires he adds the following conclusion. Thus have I writ, in smoother cedar tree, So gentle Satires, penn'd so easily. Henceforth I write in crabbed oak-tree rynde, Search they that mean the secret meaning find.
On the ground is no rich, springing sod of emerald green, fragrant with the elusive sweetness of white clover, and dainty flowers, but a sparse, wiry, famished grass, scattered thinly over the surface in tufts and patches, like the hair on a mangy cur. The giant pines seem to have sucked up into their immense boles all the nutriment in the earth, and starved out every minor growth.
King, half famished, half crazed by thirst, had been listening to the fierce argument through the thin door that separated the rooms. He heard the sudden, eager movement toward the door of his cell, and squared himself against the opposite wall, ready to fight to the death. Then there came a voice that he recognised. A woman was addressing the rabid conspirators in tones of deadly earnestness.
"I'm so ashamed," said Myrtle, tears of vexation in her eyes as she rejoined her friends. "But somehow I felt I must warn him it was an impulse I just couldn't resist." "Why, no harm resulted, in any event, my dear," returned Beth. "I wouldn't think of it again." They took so long a walk that all were nearly famished when they returned to the hotel for breakfast.
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