famishing

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Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the Mahatma: "You have my blessing and prayer in terms of famishing and naked India."

From Time Magazine Archive

It's not that heavy, so to say," acknowledged the surly boy; "it's that I be famishing for my tea.

From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

The masses are famishing for knowledge, and will thank me for the portion of intellectual bread, small though it be, which I honestly share with them.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

When the famishing family had satisfied the cravings of hunger, the farmer, whose name was Blackadder, inquired, but in the most delicate manner possible, into the history of the widow.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander