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Were they born to come to this end as surely as the little Ethiopian starvling?
The Emerald Triangle Archer, Miles 2003
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In a little inclosure before the entrance, a few starvling flowers of Europe were cultivated, but the wild plants of the country flourished luxuriantly on the rich soil within.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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Nor was there ever a harsher sound yet pierced my ears; for besides his disordered country tone, his pitiful and starvling way of delivery, he so stufft it with scraps of verses, that even Virgil then first disrelished me; till at last so tyr'd, that he could hold no longer; "D'ye think," said Habinas, "this boy has learn'd nothing?
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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