famish

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, donOt famish yourself on account of me."

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

Are there not some who, in the choicest cup, Imbibe despair, and famish as they sup, Sear'd by a solace that was like a vow?

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

We Mardians famish on the superficial strata of deposits; cracking our jaws on walnuts, filberts, cocoa-nuts, and clams.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

Deprive her of that, and you starve her as effectually as you famish a human being by abstraction of food.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert