sterve

What better gift than to the poor, that ready be to sterve?

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

Old Mrs. Griesel, delirious, "Ach, minheer, en moet ik nou sterve en dit zonder eers een glas karren melk to kry?"

Woman's Endurance

"Ach, minheer, het ik nie gezondigd dat ik nie wou zien en geloof dat zij gaat sterve?"

Woman's Endurance

Yt is a wofull sight to see two hundred proude players jett in their silks where five hundred pore people sterve in the streets. '

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

“Ach, minheer, het ik nie gezondigd dat ik nie wou zien en geloof dat zij gaat sterve?”

Woman's Endurance L, A D 1904

Old Mrs. Griesel, delirious, “Ach, minheer, en moet ik nou sterve en dit zonder eers een glas karren melk to kry?”

Woman's Endurance L, A D 1904

Thou that didst save the thief in state to sterve [12]:

The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

"If there was ony chance o 'makin' a dash an 'fechtin' to the end, I wad tak 'comfort; but to be left here to sterve an' rot, nicht an 'day, wi' naethin 'to do an' maist naethin 'to think on -- it's -- it's awfu'!"

Hunted and Harried 1859

He knew that we would be sure to hev plenty at this season o 'the year, an' that we would not see him an 'his wife sterve when our kettles wass full.

The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains 1859

‘To starve’ (the German ‘sterben’, and generally spelt ‘sterve’ up to the middle of the seventeenth century), meant once to die any manner of death; thus Chaucer says,

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846