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
These tools of the secretary of state told the famishing multitudes, that if they pleased to enjoy happiness and plenty, together with civil liberty, they had now an opportunity of accomplishing their most earnest wishes.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
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 Wilhelm Roscher
I sit here babbling like a garrulous old woman while you must be famishing.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
