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  • Only a few at first – flickering and uncertain because they were operating at the extreme end of their temporal range – and those few from the earliest days of the exodus, releasing fugitives who were unstarved and healthy, the privileged scientists and technicians who had created or appropriated the devices that made their escape possible.

    BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » Radiant Doors by Michael Swanwick 2008

  • "Sh!" whispered Madame Rousseau, putting a finger to her lips -- which in the light of the sun were singularly red and unstarved.

    Mr. Bingle George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Somewhere in Mrs. Garvey's bosom still survived a spot of femininity unstarved by twenty years of Blackjack.

    Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

  • When I asked my CPN last week why they continue treating me when I manage to function enough to be clean most of the time, to be unstarved, she said it was because bipolar disorder had a stranglehold on me, and on my life.

    www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive 2009

  • At which time they will be fed, flown out to whatever four star accomodations have been made for them in advance, and will go home unstarved and healthy.

    unknown title 2009

  • I never see a humming-bird poised over a floral tube of a trumpet creeper without pausing, in wonder that is perpetual, and asking the eternal question: "Frail and delicate feathered sprite, that any storm-gust might dash to earth and destroy, and that any enemy might crush, _how_ do you make your long and perilous journeys unstarved and unkilled?

    The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

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