famishing
Example Sentences
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Said the Mahatma: "You have my blessing and prayer in terms of famishing and naked India."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was, indeed, almost famishing, and felt tempted to take almost any risk to procure something to eat.
From Held by Chinese Brigands by Herbert Strang
These tools of the secretary of state told the famishing multitudes, that if they pleased to enjoy happiness and plenty, together with civil liberty, they had now an opportunity of accomplishing their most earnest wishes.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
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 Orson F. Whitney
