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When she could no longer pay her rent, they turned her out of doors. She begged, while she had strength; when she was starving at last, and her milk failing, she stole a piece of linen cloth of the value of a fourth part of a cent, thinking to sell it and save her child. But she was seen by the owner of the cloth. She was put in jail and brought to trial. The man testified to the facts.
"Was the First Mate one of the forsaken?" asked Anne, making advances to him which were responded to graciously, if condescendingly. "Yes. I found HIM one bitter cold day in winter, caught in the branches of a tree by his durn-fool ribbon collar. He was almost starving. If you could have seen his eyes, Mistress Blythe!
One of our two copyists, who writes a beautiful hand, copies plays for a dramatic agency; the other makes little toys worth a sou, which are sold by hucksters at the street corners toward New Year's Day, and in that way succeeds in keeping himself from starving to death the rest of the year. Our cashier is the only one who does no outside work. He would think that he had forfeited his honor.
The boy got up and came over to them. "Starving, and almost dead with weakness and his wounds, beaten almost to death and one of his ears hacked off! And Uncle Rich' took him in and kept him for me." His uncle grinned and flung an arm across his shoulder. "And had the devil and many pesos to pay to the local jefe and the naturally peevish gentleman who lost him.
That is her chat, you understand, not mine. We are not obliged to swallow all that; but, turn it how you will, here are learning, genius, and virtue starving. We must get her to accept a little money; that means, in her case, a little fire and food. Zoe, shall that woman go to bed hungry to-night?" "No, never!" said Zoe, warmly. "'Let me think. Offer her a loan." "Well done; that is a good idea.
The tomtom and the shriek that went with it made it a fierce crescendo. "That means he is starving the old hypocrite! Aren't they like the wolves in your Russia, Monsieur? But we must feed them. We mustn't let them devour our Beni-Mora. That's it!" He threw the string on to the sand, plunged his hand into the bag and brought it out full of copper coins.
Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance; the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden, but they feel as reptiles that infest it. How different was their state while yet the undisputed lords of the soil! Their wants were few, and the means of gratification within their reach.
She was playing the closing bars of a nocturne. She rose slowly, turned, and seized the letter as a starving man seizes food. There was something almost wolf-like in her eyes. "Steinmetz," she exclaimed, reading the address. "Steinmetz. Oh! why won't he write to me?"
How many poets starving in garrets and waiting for a hearing, would not curse their unlucky destinies when comparing themselves with such a Prince of Poesy, each word of whose utterance was treasured and enshrined in the hearts of a grateful and admiring people!
Supposing hungry savages were given covered dishes purporting to contain food, and upon lifting the cover one of them discovered his dish was empty what would happen? He would bear it as long as he could, but when he was starving he would certainly try to steal some food from his neighbour and might even knock him on the head and obtain it!
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