famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
The bereaved blood And emptied flesh in their most broken mood Fail not so wholly, famish not when thus Past honey keeps the starved lip covetous.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A younger son of the poorest noble would famish rather than earn his livelihood in an employment considered vile.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
The last sounds which rang in my ears were the voices of the hungry gnomes, calling out, "Give us our victim; we famish."
From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by M. Y. Halidom
I take my eyes from what too much would please, As men in fevers famish their disease.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
