What is "foodless"

Usage examples of "foodless".

So, she scourged forth the maniac multitude To rear this pyramid--tottering and slow, Plague-stricken, foodless, like lean herds pursued By gadflies, they have piled the heath, and gums, and wood.

There was an embarrassing silence as Ross and I thought solemnly of a foodless week.

He came in with the book-editor, who went away about six hours ago with thirteen finished chapters -- the bloody product of fifty-five consecutive hours of sleepless, foodless, high-speed editing.

Or life gone underground, gone into hibernation, as happened in deep, foodless winter.

Wrotsleys and their cousin, foreseeing the long foodless drive home, had each quietly pocketed an extra peach, but it was distinctly trying for Dolores and the fat and good-natured Agnes Blaik to be left with one peach between them.

Nature had used it for a million years to protect many of her children from the foodless winter.

And duty still detained him, to arrange about destroyed fences and foodless stock--duty that had to be considered first, even before her.

The task seemed interminable, and I raged almost as violently as the hermit when I saw the hours slipping by in a breathless, foodless round of vain telephoning, and a hectic quest from place to place, hither and thither by subway and surface car.