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Sometimes he’s like my father and drinks the dole itself and that’s why Nora Molloy is often carted off to the lunatic asylum demented with worry over her hungry famishing family.

Even though he knew her character, he would declare her to be “famishing” and in need of food, quickly.

He was, indeed, almost famishing, and felt tempted to take almost any risk to procure something to eat.

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

He paid no heed to the little man in spectacles glaring opposite to him, famishing for Fun.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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