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Definition of Famines

1. famine [n] - See also: famine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Famines

Literary usage of Famines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"CONTENTS: PAGE PAGE Chronology of famines 43t Analysis of Causes of famines .... 450 Table of Plagues of Insects, Vermin, &c 499 Table of Floods 451 Table ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"INDIAN famines AND THEIR REMEDIES. 1. Reports of the Indian Famine Commissions appointed in 1878, 1898, and 1900. 2. General Sir Arthur Cotton: his Life and ..."

3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"INDIAN famines, 1770-1866. years, the canal supply must likewise fail after ... famines, reported to have perished. The previous season had been bad; and, ..."

4. England's Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy by Lajpat Rai (1917)
"The famines of India are among the most startling phenomena of our time. They seem to be steadily increasing both in frequency and severity. ..."

5. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"With all those records of famines and their attendant sicknesses in England, ... The immunity of England from ergotism, with such a record of famines as the ..."

6. Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement by Lajpat Rai (1916)
"In 1913-14 she exported about 216 million dollars' worth of foodstuffs. famines of Money, not Food. Lord G. Hamilton. " The recent famines are famines of ..."

7. Ireland Under English Rule: Or, A Plea for the Plaintiff by Thomas Addis Emmet (1903)
"We now wish to study the unnecessary famines from which Ireland has suffered, all of which it is claimed could have been mitigated by a Government whose ..."

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