famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
Let Descartes, and Polignac, and Reid, and Cudworth, et id omne genus, famish themselves in this desert; but ask it not of César Prévost!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
C is the CORN-LAWS, that famish’d the poor; D is the DEBT, that will famish them more.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various
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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Nor would the mob be able to rule if they got all they desire; they would only tear each other to pieces, and die drunk or famish sober.
From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen
