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

I comprehended that there is more nourishment for famishing humanity in the most watery and insipid broth of Christian charity than in the dry and musty spider-web of the Hegelian philosophy.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

Dwindling and dwarfed in all save wickedness, And knowledge, oft made pander unto ill, With learning gorged, for wisdom famishing, Man both a glutton and a starveling seemed.

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.

He said we were famishing, whereupon the skipper lowered a boat, sending food and water to us.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert