famishing
Example Sentences
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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
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.
Here he was to find the happiest days of his life, after the serene but famishing voyage.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah
The masses are famishing for knowledge, and will thank me for the portion of intellectual bread, small though it be, which I honestly share with them.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
