What is "supperless"

Usage examples of "supperless".

I dined with Don Diego, and when his daughter came in with dessert he told her that it was her fault I had gone supperless to bed.

This man had ordered him out into a winter gale, or supperless to bed, for fifteen years out of twenty.

The round-up had ridden in but a few moments before, hungry and tired, to a supperless camp.

Uncle Jasper left his house supperless, and struck down the street until he came to the saloon.

He had no courage left, and sat down supperless at his little piano, letting his fingers find soft painful harmonies, so that Noel perhaps heard the faint far thrumming of that music through uneasy dreams.

On the night of the second day it came to an end, and they went supperless to bed, munching a few dried berries like rose-hips, which were sour and flavorless, but which eased hunger a little.

The lady had retired to her chamber, and the baron had passed a supperless and sleepless night, stalking about his apartments till an advanced hour of the morning, when hunger compelled him to summon into his presence the spoils of the buttery, which, being the intended array of an uneaten wedding feast, were more than usually abundant, and on which, when the knight and the friar entered, he was falling with desperate valour.

I have been lying down supperless on the sod, after marching and fighting the whole day, I have longed for a bowl of porridge and a platter well filled with oatmeal cakes.

Fate to play bandy with me, and if it sent me supperless to bed, why, here was restitution in the way of breakfast.

Lagunes to go to a supperless bed: take away the basket, good Jacopo, and let us speak of other things.

Mounted foresters and hunters of both realms quickly scouted out a large, sprawling forest camp, and after a long, cold, wet, supperless night, the force struck at dawn.

Above all he spoke of that delectable climate where a man could go to bed supperless and weary on the cold ground and wake whistling with sheer bodily well-being--and of a world where there was hope and horizon, since everything was still in the making.

As we ruefully contemplated a supperless couch, a comely young woman, who had been looking us over from a room in the rear of the bar, came smilingly forward and volunteered to do the best she could for us.

I am pitied for having gone so late supperless, but I am shocked at such an idea.

I dined with Don Diego, and when his daughter came in with dessert he told her that it was her fault I had gone supperless to bed.