famishing
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Said the Mahatma: "You have my blessing and prayer in terms of famishing and naked India."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The famishing girl spent another night in the woods, and at dawn resumed her travels, striking the war path at mid-day.
From Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Carrie de Voe
To all my inquiries there was but one answer: “Don’t stay to care for the wounded now; the troops are famishing with thirst and are beginning to fall back.”
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds
With the vigor of famishing men they scoured the country for game, and nets were skilfully set under cascade falls, which yielded the first morning a dozen trout and white-fish.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
