famish

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, donOt famish yourself on account of me."

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

The rag refers to the flag, and the famish to the bad cuisine.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Bennet, contained in the first volume of the Geological Society Transactions, may famish the inquisitive reader with a short summary of the principal appearances on which this opinion rests.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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