famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Helen Zimmern
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
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
Deprive her of that, and you starve her as effectually as you famish a human being by abstraction of food.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Robert Chambers
