famish
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
So viands were produced; to which the guests were invited to pay heedful attention; or take the consequences, and famish till the long voyage in prospect was ended.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
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
Let Descartes, and Polignac, and Reid, and Cudworth, et id omne genus, famish themselves in this desert; but ask it not of César Prévost!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 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 Edmund Burke
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