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Usage examples of starchy.

Food of a starchy or saccharine character is apt to increase acidity, and interfere with the assimilation of other elements, therefore, articles, rich in fatty matters, should enter largely into the diet.

In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-bush cranberries, bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns.

Heaps of wild yams, white starchy breadroots, and potatolike groundnuts boiled gently in skin pots slung over fires.

Dressed in a neatly pressed Henry Truman sports shirt-windblown palm trees and sailboats on a powder blue background-with a permanent flush in his cheeks, Peter was led up to his hearing by a starchy butler type.

Looking like a young, troubled senator in his starchy blue shirt with the rolled-up sleeves.

Dante stood, silent as stone, and watched, marveling at what had, until now, been hidden beneath layers and layers of starchy, black clothing.

That was his first realization that there was something more beneath the starchy clothing and grim demeanor.

They were joined by sober clubmen, starchy hostesses, pushy matchmakers, giggling girls fresh from the schoolroom.

No single class of foods, albuminous, starchy, saccharine, or mineral, is sufficient for the nutrition of the body, but the food must contain substances belonging to each of the different classes.

For adults and older children, the diet should consist of such starchy foods as arrow-root, sago, corn starch, and rice, and of ripe grapes, freed from the skins and seeds, peaches, and boiled milk, or milk and lime water.

It should be highly nutritious, but anything of a sweet or starchy nature must be avoided.

A gaudy thing, its color spilling down the starchy whiteness of her shirtwaist.

A bit starchy he thought, at least the parents were, but nevertheless nice.

Along with them were plantains, starchy large bananas, and misshapen tomatoes with horny skins.

Hot lights melted things, the food had to be pinned together eventually, sprayed with a terrible kind of starchy substance so that it would keep a shine.