famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
Take, then, your regular supplies of spiritual food, that your soul may not famish.
From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb
He won't famish," said Rufe, "with the large supply of sauce which he keeps on hand!
From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
With their scant water supply at a distance and unprotected they could not hold out long in a siege, but would soon be compelled either to fight, fly or famish.
From Arizona Sketches by J. A. (Joseph Amasa) Munk
Directly there came by a child, With toiling step, and vision wild, "Father," said she, with hunger dread, "We famish for the want of bread."
From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Alf Burnett
