famishing

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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

Wandering among forests, bleak, cheerless, and choked with snow, now famishing with want, now cloyed355 with repletion, they passed the dull, cold winter.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

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.

We had also, at this period, a "saint" in the Exchequer, who studied Scripture for some purpose: the famishing people cried out for bread, and the pious Vansittart gave them stones!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne