famish

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

C is the CORN-LAWS, that famish’d the poor; D is the DEBT, that will famish them more.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various

The bereaved blood And emptied flesh in their most broken mood Fail not so wholly, famish not when thus Past honey keeps the starved lip covetous.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

It requires nothing more of the Regicides than to famish some sort of excuse, some sort of colorable pretest, for our renewing the supplications of innocence at the feet of guilt.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund