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
She had recovered from the first shock caused by Carroll’s news, but though she could face the situation more calmly, she could find no comfort anywhere—Vane was lying helpless and famishing, in the frost-bound wilderness.
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
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
She was a sweet bit lassie, but she was frail in the constitootion, ye see, and the hard famishing winter was ower muckle for her feeble frame.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
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