Sentence Examples:
The howling of wolves, especially at day-break, is considered a very bad omen, predicting famine or disease.
War killed many millions, disease accounted for many more, but the hardiest reaper has been famine.
An industrious and hospitable race were in the pangs of a devouring famine.
When famine urges him, he goes blindly, helplessly, dumbly, and tries to take by force that which is denied by force.
We've got to do our missionary work the way they feed famine sufferers.
In a word, it was the seven years of plenty for the whole living world, and the expansive development gave birth to the modern types, which were to be selected from the crowd in the subsequent seven years of famine.
A man's belly was not made for a powdering beef-tub; to feed the poor twelve days, and let them starve all the year after, would but stretch out the guts wider than they should be, and so make famine a bigger den in their bellies than he had before.
Austerity and tenderness met together and became a cord of love; and when the land was perishing from famine, the favored members of a retired household were shielded from harm, and had all that was necessary for comfort.
Every few years with dreary regularity we note the chronicler's brief record of cattle-plague, famine, pestilence.
The probabilities were that this city would fall, for it was already besieged, and was beginning to suffer famine.
Look about you, and say what is it you see that doesn't foretell famine.
Winter had now arrived and Scipio suspended his operations, leaving famine and pestilence to complete what he had begun.
The large number of children taken over by the city is due to the number of orphans and half orphans caused by the war and to the impossibility of many poor families providing their children with food during the recent famine.
Towns are repeatedly consumed by fire, districts scourged by leprosy, and provinces swept by famine.
On the heels of famine, like a hound behind a huntsman, came typhus.
I was short of provisions, which made me very anxious, and I was still more so when I learned that the enemy were trying to cut me off from provisions on all sides, and that their intention was to capture me by famine or treachery.
Profound peace broods over the empire, famine and pestilence are fought with the weapons of science.
Now, therefore, know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.'
His head, where age or famine showed least, was still unquestionably fine.
And if at all these points we were worsted, yet 'fire,' as they say, 'is stronger than the fruit of the field': we can burn it down and call up famine in arms against you; against which you, for all your bravery, will never be able to contend.
Not once or twice, but many times the harvest had been burnt and destroyed, and great as had been the slaughter, numerous as were the executions, they had been far eclipsed by the multitude of those who had died of sheer famine.
No one dared to take them in, every door was shut in their faces, and though at first no actual massacre seems to have been intended, hundreds perished within the first few days of exposure, or fell dead by the roadside of famine and exhaustion.
Rend returned to Nancy in the midst of a population whom his victory had delivered from famine as well as war.
He held out for six weeks, in spite of famine, want of money, and ever-increasing dissensions.
Chester was reduced by famine, all the attempts the king made to relieve it being frustrated.
They were so much distressed by famine on this march as to be under the necessity of eating several of their horses, the flesh of which sold so high that a dead horse brought more money on this occasion than he had cost when living.
"I might be a blessed missionary, or India-with-a-famine, the way they're treating me," he complained bitterly.
There is no famine nor pestilence in the land, nor war, nor desolation.
Know that out of all the eleven villages by famine and pestilence not another man remains.
The famine had not been so sore in the south, and pestilence had not been at all.
To so many other evils, then, there is to be added, that of dearth, perhaps of famine.
You will ask, "What has all this talk of food and famine to do with the villager?"
Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager; insufficient food is the foreground.
We can see our ragged soldiers, with sunken cheeks and famine-glistening eyes.
Famines and pestilences may have occurred many times without forming a part of the Apocalyptic vision.
I regret it, because this book will not embrace those papers I chiefly desire to provide people with, and it may be some time, in these years of bankruptcy and famine, before we shall think it prudent to publish two volumes more.
Their horses, as well as themselves, had recovered from past famine and fatigue, and were again fit for active service; and an impatience began to manifest itself among the men once more to take the field, and set off on some wandering expedition.
The whole of the evils arising from famine then can only be averted by a full development of well irrigation, and this and the development of the landed resources of the country in general can only be effected through the agency of improved tenures.
This surplus is placed in a public storehouse and issued in case of famine.
Wherefore, remarking that he would leave behind him for Mithridates an enemy stronger than himself, famine, he set vessels to keep a guard on the merchants who sailed to the Bosporus; and death was the penalty for those who were caught.
When praying on account of war, drought, famine, or epidemic, the branch clothes were carefully renewed.
Famine comes upon the land, and the hunter, forgetting his oath, slays four sea-gulls for food.
He insists "that loss of life in famine time is infinitesimal compared with what it used to be."
Over and above this, in time of famine he scattered wheat and barley abroad, so that they who were ashamed to gather by day might do so by night; but now this house has fallen into ruin, and ought I not to sigh?
After a while the effects of famine began to manifest themselves in the sufferers by a swelling of the extremities.
Famine and pestilence are sweeping away hundreds, but they have now no terrors for the people.
Their plight was deplorable; for they had left their knapsacks behind, and were spent with fatigue and famine.
Famine ensued; and he then sold it at a great profit, partly to the King, and partly to its first owners.
They have read the history of our dreadful civil wars, famines, and confiscations.
Sir John Burgoyne truly describes this as 'the grandest attempt ever made to grapple with famine over a whole country.'
Perched on the crest of a precipitous rock, this fortress looks as though it might defy all enemies but famine.
Protection against famine was uppermost in the minds of a people still remembering the suffering of 1870.
Skipper Ed had not kept dogs since the slaughter of his team in the year of famine.
No great external calamity has visited the nation; no pestilence or famine.
Aroused from the stupor of the famine, the peasants had to retaliate with the same old defensive policy of outrage.
Famine and pestilence are followed at once by an increased number of births.
Master in prose of a passion as intense as Carlyle's and far less cloudy, of an irony not excelled by Swift, Mitchel flung into the tabernacles of his own people during the Great Famine a sentence that meant not peace but a sword.
The loss of life on account of famine, caused by the failure of the monsoon rains, has been terrific in some years.
If we please, we may fill up the place of the butchered Abel; and whilst we wait the destiny of the departed brother, we may enjoy the advantages of the partnership, by entering without delay into a shop of ready-made bankruptcy and famine.
It is feared that later in the year there will be a fodder famine.
During this singular struggle of patient endurance, both armies suffered fearfully from sickness and famine.
Famine devastates one country, while the granaries of another are bursting with food.
A famine had been caused in Denmark by a great flood, and the people, to avoid danger of starvation, had resolved to put all the old men and women to death, in order to save the food for the young and strong.
A year at length went by, the famine growing in virulence with the passing of the days.
That of Wallenstein dwindled away under the assaults of famine and pestilence.
Famine also began to invade the city, and the condition of the besieged grew daily more desperate.
After a month the Scots went home, leaving famine, pestilence, and misery in their train.
That a human community might conceivably not be in a condition of famine or shipwreck never seems to cross their minds.
To cow the populace, to bring the troops to the mark, with threats of curses, famine, plague, eternal damnation!
It was terrible to see the faces of the Venetians, gaunt with famine, broken down by cold and fatigue.
It will mean utter famine, unexampled extermination, which till the end of the world will cry to heaven for vengeance.
Food riots, famine, and general disorganization will come before 1920, if it does.
She feeds her multitudes like a mother; and then suddenly her bounty dries and there is famine and pestilence.
To attack them directly in French waters might lead to perilous complications, while delay meant famine.
Now they were farther from the Iroquois, and staved off famine by shooting an occasional bear in the berry patches.
Charles had been arduous and swift, through stifling heat; and the year passed in the North was one of famine.
Famine stood suddenly before them as a gaunt, terrific specter, whose cold hand it seemed had grasped their very hearts.
We might take a case during the late coal famine, of a man who, in order to fill his contracts of coal at six dollars a ton, would be obliged to buy it at fifteen and twenty dollars a ton; and thereby sacrifice his fortune.
What multitudes might be rescued from famine and nakedness by the judicious application of this sum!
They were thought to presage war, famine, and the death of kings.
In the meantime we had mighty catastrophes like the sinking of the Titanic and other ships, the earthquakes at Messina and elsewhere, famines and epidemics and floods in various places, and great numbers of murders, railway and other accidents, etc.
Ireland's famine was the punishment of her imprudence and idleness, but it has given to her prosperity and progress.
Five million adult male human beings had been exterminated by the machines of war, by disease, and by famine.
Famine added its horrors to the stupendous weight of afflictions under which the people were groaning.
The women felt the pinch of famine more bitterly than the men, and the women played a noteworthy part in the formation of those deep strata of popular opinion, or instinct, on which in turn each of the revolutionary parties had to build their power.
A good many years ago he was carried through the streets on a car drawn by four horses, and all the poor people got soup, which he was supposed to give them in memory of a famine from which the town had suffered at one time.
Who could be surprised that such a policy-should end in famine and pestilence?
War, pestilence, famine, slaughter, were only names in a history book to them.
Two long, haggard years of the war had dragged by, to a wailing crescendo of misery, famine, disease, and madness.
Jonathan's hard head withstood even the whirl of the days when corn was at famine prices.
Three years of such a scarcity is more than any country could bear, and you will believe me when I say that, if it was in my power, I would guard it not only from famine, but from every other calamity.
Fearful famine had followed the slave raids, and the sights which met their eye in every direction were heart-rending.
The carpenter, however, discovered that the ship had sprung a leak, and all hands were now summoned to work the pumps; but weakened by disease and famine, and overcome with fatigue, they were soon obliged to give up the almost hopeless task.
Pat never made a complaint, though his wan cheek showed that famine was telling on him.
What broke the famine was a storm of wind and rain that caused the snow to fall from the trees, cleared the forests, and formed, after a freeze, a crust on the snow that enabled the hunters to kill an abundance of game.
Alternate calms and storms baffled, famine and thirst assailed the unfortunate crew.
No great external calamity has visited the nation; no pestilence or famine.
Children were frequently adopted, being purchased in large numbers in time of famine, and also occasionally kidnapped.
I have a taste to be at peace, and not to become food to sate the public famine for a thing to tear.
Famine came on through the lack of foresight, and pestilence quickly followed.