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

This treaty was really of much importance to the famishing, ice-bound, scurvy-smitten strangers.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

Supper was just ready, but there were only four plates on the table, and when I ventured to mention that Cotton waited repentant and famishing without, Sally regarded me stonily.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

Is not d�jeuner the most important meal in France--now as in the past; and is it not deliberately fiendish to place famishing humanity in a dining-hall without the necessary and expected adjuncts?

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis