starvelings

Their development is arrested, or they are, from the beginning, poor creatures born of starvelings, and perhaps fated to give birth to pale, sapless beings like themselves.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

The wonder of this being that thanks to the wars and attendant famines visited on particularly Munster, according to Spenser 'a most populous and plentiful counry was suddenly left void of man and beast' and according to Sir Valentine Browns "not one of thirty persons" had survived the wars and "those for the most part starvelings."

Dead heads and humanists 2009

For the moment, it seems like Pyongyang can't build an ICBM capable of reaching Beverly Hills or Kerry Healey's mansion...but that could change over time based on how much moolah Komrade Kim wants to waste on missiles in a nation neck deep in starvelings.

The Chimes at Midnight 2006

At each stroke the ten rowers, Dravidian starvelings, ran forward and plunged their long primitive oars, with heart-shaped blades, into the water.

Burmese Days 2002

Maybe only someone who as a child had never been certain whether there would be a next meal would have noticed the difference, but Alberich had learned early which were the well-fed children (and thus, dangerous, for they could bully him with impunity) and which the starvelings like himself (which he could defend himself against without fear of retribution).

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Maybe only someone who as a child had never been certain whether there would be a next meal would have noticed the difference, but Alberich had learned early which were the well-fed children (and thus, dangerous, for they could bully him with impunity) and which the starvelings like himself (which he could defend himself against without fear of retribution).

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

In addition he was well set-up and healthy, not like the starvelings and plague victims.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

It deals with the very foundations of human existence including food, the lack and superabundance thereof, great gluttons and untold starvelings, the joys of the palate and crusts from the rich man's table.

Nobel Lecture - Literature 1999 1999

"In case the other starvelings aloft decide to leave me with naught but scrapings!"

Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

"In case the other starvelings aloft decide to leave me with naught but scrapings!"

Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996