hunger-wasted

Updated: May 2, 2025

He had woken in the night and seen it standing at his bedside, plague-defiled and hunger-wasted, and because of it he dreaded to sleep alone, especially in that creaking, rat-haunted mill, whose very board seemed charged with some tale of death and blood. Heavens! At this very moment he thought he could hear that dead voice calling down the gale.

Henry Rider Haggard - Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch