famishing

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Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the Mahatma: "You have my blessing and prayer in terms of famishing and naked India."

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1862, the workmen in the famishing cotton industries of Lancashire were actually reduced to just about this minimum.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

This treaty was really of much importance to the famishing, ice-bound, scurvy-smitten strangers.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

Exhausted with fatigue, and famishing with hunger, the widow and her children here applied at a respectable farm-house, which stood a little way off the road, for relief.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander