Clemmed

History has done justice to the noble fortitude with which the operatives of Lancashire "clemmed" (starved) in silence during that awful time. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Soldiers clemmed with hunger would see a wisp of smoke rise through the snow, and dig down to the food. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)

"But I can't get there; I'm most clemmed with hunger and drought." ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

"Tha wert born i 'th' workhouse, tha run about th 'streets i' rags, tha pretty nigh clemmed to death, tha blacked boots, tha sold newspapers, tha feyther was a common workin'-mon -- and now tha 's coom into Temple Barholm an 'sixty thousand a year." ❋ Unknown (1913)

"Better come and have a sup o 'tea first; you look clemmed wi' the cold," he returned. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)

'And I'll let Foxy in and eat a loaf, I will, for I'm clemmed!' she said. ❋ Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1904)

'If ifs were beans and bacon, there's few'd go clemmed,' said Hazel. ❋ Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1904)

'She only does it when I'm away, being clemmed,' said Hazel pleadingly. ❋ Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1904)

Strother, as were almost clemmed to death and doubled up with the rheumatics, would sing out, 'Joyful! ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Old quarrels and grudges had died out and had been forgotten forever while men and women broke their last crust of bread together or perhaps clemmed themselves to help feed the children of the very man that had wronged them. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)

'She was half starved, poor old creature, -- fairly clemmed, as they say in the North. ❋ Rosa Nouchette Carey (1874)

Oi be clemmed to da-eth, measter, and th 'rats and varmint be a-gnawing on me cruel! ❋ William Heysham Overend (1874)

'I'm nigh clemmed,' were his first words, as he seized the brown loaf and cut off a slice, which he devoured ravenously. ❋ Hesba Stretton (1871)

A while ago I thought I'd get away to some other country where I'd never hear of you; but I'll wait now, if I'm almost clemmed to death, till I see what ❋ Hesba Stretton (1871)

"I'm fair clemmed wi 'cold and wet," the swagger said, still bundled up in his comparatively sheltered corner. ❋ Unknown (1871)

"Laws, miss, you must be nigh clemmed!" said the girl; and, hastening away, she soon returned with a loaf, and butter, and a pot of marmalade sent by the cook, who was only too glad to open ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

I have heerd they're a pack of spiritless, down-trodden men; welly clemmed to death; too much dazed wi 'clemming to know when they're put upon. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Why he'd a clemmed to death, if th 'Union had na helped him in his pinch. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)