famish

Example Sentences

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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."

From Time Magazine Archive

While living bodies famish and living eyes burn for the sight of beauty.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

But the tendency to famish us displayed by our Rulers was not calculated to improve the morale of a civilian, or any, army.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

It never rains out of season, and were it not for the heavy night dews, the very birds would famish.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

The human heart would famish but for these fountains that break out in the midst of weary, toiling years.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee