famish

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Sympathy cannot feast in a palace while the poor famish.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight

The gorging a royal kitchen may stint and famish the negotiations of a kingdom.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

But the tendency to famish us displayed by our Rulers was not calculated to improve the morale of a civilian, or any, army.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

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 Smith, William Robert Lee