famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fie on ambition! fie on myself; that have a sword, and yet am ready to famish!
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
But, in the interim, she must starve and famish like a white mouse learning to dance.'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
"Well, donOt famish yourself on account of me."
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
Switzerland could not afford to be a Kingdom,—the expense of a Court and Royal Family would famish half her people.
From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley
