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
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 Orson F. Whitney
Now and then they killed a stray musk-ox and, like famishing creatures, men and dogs ate for once their fill.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
Malone was ordered to march before them, which he was compelled to do, though famishing from hunger and thirst.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by John H. Aughey
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