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In healthy nonpregnant, unstarved adults, the role of calcitonin is unclear.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

"Sh!" whispered Madame Rousseau, putting a finger to her lips—which in the light of the sun were singularly red and unstarved.

From Mr. Bingle by McCutcheon, George Barr

Its streets are the sewers, where rats abound; Where swarms, unstifled, unstarved, undrowned, Their ravenous population.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various

Frail and delicate feathered sprite, that any storm-gust might dash to earth and destroy, and that any enemy might crush, how do you make your long and perilous journeys unstarved and unkilled?

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple

Prince Henri, forage done, started punctually September 10th, two days after his Brother; and with little or no pursuit, from the Austrians, and with horses unstarved, got home in comparatively tolerable circumstances.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas