famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
I take my eyes from what too much would please, As men in fevers famish their disease.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
Relief must soon come from some quarter, else many in this community will famish.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
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 William Robert Lee Smith
Bennet, contained in the first volume of the Geological Society Transactions, may famish the inquisitive reader with a short summary of the principal appearances on which this opinion rests.
