famishing

Future Treasury Secretary William Duane wrote that Callender’s wife had died from a sexually transmitted disease “on a loathsome bed, with a number of children, all in a state next to famishing ... while Callender was having his usual pint of brandy at breakfast.”

Then there had been Archbishops nicknamed “Skin-villain,” and churches used as forts—with trenches in the graveyards among the bones—and price-lists for fining murderers, and bodies of the excommunicated lying unburied, and famishing peasants eating grass or tree-bark or one another.

As if long famishing for something to copy, he seemed to gorge himself on my documents.

In this manner we toiled as well as we were able till four o'clock, during which we passed several keys, but could not meet with a ship; and, still famishing with thirst, went ashore on one of those keys again in hopes of finding some water.

And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.