famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
The bereaved blood And emptied flesh in their most broken mood Fail not so wholly, famish not when thus Past honey keeps the starved lip covetous.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Are there not some who, in the choicest cup, Imbibe despair, and famish as they sup, Sear'd by a solace that was like a vow?
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay
Unscrupulous as he is in the matter of idiotic jokes, I know him well enough to be sure that he wouldn't leave us here to famish.
From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
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
