famish

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Take, then, your regular supplies of spiritual food, that your soul may not famish.

From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey

Nor would the mob be able to rule if they got all they desire; they would only tear each other to pieces, and die drunk or famish sober.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen

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