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Перевод: starveling

[прилагательное]
голодный; изнуренный;
[существительное]
голодный человек; изнуренный человек; истощенное животное; заморыш

Тезаурус:

1. What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes: on the one hand the number of syllables, on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or "stress".
2. An atavistic, tribal, magical resistance spreads about the bush: starveling rebels are hunted by an army, but magic bends the army's guns.
3. J. R. Clynes, the new Lord Privy Seal, wrote picturesquely of "the strange turn in Fortune's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk, Thomas the engine driver, Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand, to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations.
4. Enter Bottom the Weaver, Quince the Carpenter, Snug The Joyner, Flute the Bellows-mender, Snout the Tinker, and Starveling the Taylor.
5. I was no more alert to my environment than a sick animal and I must have somehow been aware of that, because it was then that I remembered the starveling cat.
6. I wondered why I hadn't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it.
7. When you are getting ready to write, think carefully about what you need, about what will nourish the starveling child.
8. The murderous droughts of the serto of north-eastern Brazil brought a periodic exodus of starveling backwoodsmen, as scrawny as their scrub cattle; the news that the drought was over took them back again, to the dry, cactus-riddled landscape where no "civilised" Brazilian went, unless on a military expedition against some wild-eyed back-country messiah.
9. My obsessed, starveling brain was conjuring up all sorts of ghastly images to accompany this sort of talk; things arising, coming up
10. He liked to please the family and if it wished ill to the starveling cat then so did he.
11. "Don't drink too much of that," said my mother, unable to stop herself; but it made me feel better, more like the early girl of Egypt and less like the starveling cat.
12. I began to think too often of the starveling cat.
13. Even the villains speak truly of their villainy, like Iago in Otello , but he, Davide, would have had to make false speeches to client and judge, had he taken the fees for claiming some rickety starveling was the landowner scholar come back to earth.