Example Sentences

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Oh, starver in the midst of God's plenty! think of the wretched sons of famine, and be wise.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

In England the landlord is the effectual starver of the soil.

From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Sieveking, Giberne