half-famished

 The stranger is half-famished, and he tells the soldiers of a small group of settlers who lost their way in the mountains, the malevolent captain who was leading their party, and of the drastic way the group survived out in the wilderness.

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I added to my family also from time to time half-famished dogs which I had rescued from the streets, or ill-treated and broken-down donkeys, which I purchased from some cruel master.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

It is as if they wish back the days when we were always in the saddle, sore, weary, half-famished, and with the enemy before and behind us.

Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975

He proved to be half-famished and wholly exhausted, and, after a hearty meal, lay in a comatose condition before the fire.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

"Eh, Signore, Signore!" had whined the half-famished imp, padding by the condottiere's stirrup.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

High sentiments of honor could not well exist in the poor, half-famished prisoners, who were denied even water to quench their thirst, or the privilege of breathing fresh, pure air, and cramped, day after day, in a space too small to admit of exercising their weary limbs, with the fear of wasting their lives in

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

Tradition also states that while Wallabout Bay was thus frozen over the Long Island market women skated across it, with supplies of vegetables in large hampers attached to their backs, and that some of them came near enough to throw some of their supplies to the half-famished prisoners on board the Jersey.

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

Can the workman here stand his ground against the half-famished, ignorant workmen of Europe, who will toil for any wages, and who never think of redeeming an hour for personal improvement?

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

While standing there it was distressing to see the faces of hundreds of half-famished wretches, looking over the side of the ship into the boat, without the means of purchasing the most trifling article before their sight, not even so much as a morsel of wholesome bread.

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

And Lipp would take my apple from me with a smile, and devour it as if he were half-famished.

Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 Various