famishment

Example Sentences

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A miserable death is famishment; But what care I?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

We’ve got a fair chance o’ goin’ un’er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o’ empty stomaks.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

Go on, Sir William Blunt: Pass briefly to the lady's famishment.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

And she must love so, else she would die of famishment.

From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Lewisohn, Ludwig

Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa