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  • Normally, I'd be starvingly, stomach-growlingly hungry before 10 a.m - hell, before 9 a.m.

    Food For Thought juliette 2009

  • Normally, I'd be starvingly, stomach-growlingly hungry before 10 a.m - hell, before 9 a.m.

    Archive 2009-07-01 juliette 2009

  • It was old enough to clutch, and clutch it did, and suck furiously and starvingly -- even though actually forced to stop once or twice at first to give vent to a thwarted remnant of a scream.

    The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • She was starvingly hungry, to begin with, and enjoyed the excellent lunch that Mrs. Haddo ordered at the confectioners.

    Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School L. T. Meade 1884

  • "Mrs. Miles, was your heart ever very starvingly empty?"

    Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School L. T. Meade 1884

  • Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I get starvingly hungry when I'm around my husband and he doesn't want sex.

    Winnipeg Sun 2009

  • Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I get starvingly hungry when I'm around my husband and he doesn't want sex.

    Winnipeg Sun 2009

  • Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I get starvingly hungry when I'm around my husband and he doesn't want sex.

    Winnipeg Sun 2009

  • "It's awful," said George; "it's awful to be so starvingly poor as that.

    A Girl in Ten Thousand L. T. Meade 1884

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