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

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

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

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

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Here he was to find the happiest days of his life, after the serene but famishing voyage.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah