starvin

• “We don't want him sittin 'here freezin' his baws aff an 'starvin' to death.”

  Country of the Blind

• “You kin tell 'em, too, massa -- 'case you's edication, and kin talk -- how de pore wite man am kep' down har; how he'm ragged, an 'starvin', an 'ob no account,' case de brack man am a slave.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “You kin tell 'em, too, massa, -- 'case you's edication, and kin talk -- how de pore wite man' am kep 'down har; how he'm ragged, an' starvin ', an' ob no account, 'case de brack man am a slave.”

  Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time

• “I was allus expectin 'rheumatiz an' 'unger an' cold an 'starvin' old age.”

  The Dawn of A To-morrow

• “There'll be higher education for the toilin 'starvin' clown,”

  In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses

• “But I ain't feedin 'starvin' kids, 'Tain't my business.”

  Mary Louise in the Country

• “Him what fed me when I war 'starvin', an 'gimme his last nickel when he war' hungry hisself; an 'yo' want me ter kill him. ”

  That Printer of Udell's

• “If hit's to choose 'twixt rags, an 'starvin', an 'p'intin' fingers, or Si, I'll tuck hit all, but I'll never tuck Si! ”

  The Durket Sperret,

• “I'm free to shout that I can sure hang on to this here pascar like a starvin 'Indian to a hunk of bear-meat.”

  THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK

• “One pound box of sugar, and a stick of margarine," he says, "a hot pot of Grits got my family from starvin '.”

  The Guardian: Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results

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