Starveling

The names of his comrades have no specific connection with the trades they ply; but "Starveling" is appropriate by tradition for a tailor -- it takes seven tailors to make a man.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

"Starveling" once might be a bit much, but recurrence makes it work.

Mark Bernstein 2010

Starveling dogs scavenged beneath them for the remnants of the evening meal.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Starveling wretches, with stick-like limbs and knees too feeble to be straightened, draped in earth-coloured rags, they were like a procession of shrouded skeletons walking.

Burmese Days 2002

In order to provide for moonshine as called for in the story, and out of fear that the moon may not be visible on the night of performance, Starveling the tailor agrees to 'present the person of moonshine' complete with the lantern, dog, and thornbush thought to be the attributes of the man in the moon.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Would it have been as amusing to the audience then as it would be to us when Quince says 'Robin Starveling, you play Thisbies mother'?

Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900

There was a fat, fair one, of friendly face, and beside her her grim guardian, a man so thin that you at once cast him for the part of Starveling in this Midsummer Day's Dream of

The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Kate Sanborn 1878

Starveling though he was, he knew his city, and could instinctively have recounted the grand pages of its history.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

Starveling though he was, he knew his city, and could instinctively have recounted the grand pages of its history.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871

Starveling though he was, he knew his city, and could instinctively have recounted the grand pages of its history.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871