famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
Take, then, your regular supplies of spiritual food, that your soul may not famish.
From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey
Deprive her of that, and you starve her as effectually as you famish a human being by abstraction of food.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
"Well, donOt famish yourself on account of me."
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
The human heart would famish but for these fountains that break out in the midst of weary, toiling years.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee
