famine's

"After that, the future doesn't look so bright, Egypt's luck will change completely overnight, and famine's hand will stalk the land with food an all-time low".

Archive 2008-08-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

Despite the famine's widening toll, the government was still prohibiting private companies from importing grain, according to the UN report.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

But the British unquestionably exacerbated the famine's impact by their tardy reactions; ongoing limits on Irish fishing and on potato growing, save on one's own property; requirement that a portion of the potato crop be exported to England; and widespread jailing of beggars.

1846-47 2001

It seems to me we should be indifferent to our own heart promptings, and out of accord with the spirit which acclaims the Christmastide, if we do not give out of our national abundance to lighten this burden of woe upon a people blameless and helpless in famine's peril.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

Then—the snow that locked the trail where famine's shadow followed

Trail-Makers 1919

Your walls shall gird, till famine's pangs constrain

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

"Jimmy Hawkins won't be pleased," said Scott "A famine's no place for a woman."

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

Christmastide, if we do not give out of our national abundance to lighten this burden of woe upon a people blameless and helpless in famine's peril.

State of the Union Address 1894

For the poor, man's natural nourishment exists no more; the season of famine's loathsome feasts, the first days of the sacrifice of choice to necessity have darkly and irretrievably begun.

Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

International aid agencies and the major agencies of the United Nations kept reporting the famine's worsening effects over the ensuing decade.

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